In this way, what Don Paterson could be saying is that the sonnet is a product of a poet's meaning behind their individual observation of what a sonnet means to them. ... More recently than Petrarchan, Shakespearean sonnets have taken a different approach on sonnet writing that blur the intentions of the sonnet itself and make us question the idea of love as a whole, something that Fineman calls a "mock encomium." ... In his poem "Sonnet 130" he demonstrates a clear manipulation of the idea of love, mocking the unrealistic comparisons made such as "My mistress' eyes are nothing like...

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