Dark Lady (Shakespeare)
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title:
Dark Lady (Shakespeare)
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The Dark Lady is a woman described in Shakespeare's sonnets, and so called because the poems make it clear that she has black wiry hair, and dark, "dun"-coloured skin. The description of the Dark Lady distinguishes itself from the Fair Youth sequence by being overtly sexual. Among these, Sonnet 151 has been characterised as "bawdy" and is used to illustrate the difference between the spiritual love for the Fair Youth and the sexual love for the Dark Lady. The distinction is commonly made in the
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Poetic persona in Shakespeare's sonnets
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Lady_(Shakespeare)
date created:
2017-05-08T04:59:39Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T23:23:18Z
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