Love Story Diction

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“This love is difficult, but it’s real”, is a modern day lyric, from a modern day love song, “Love Story”, by a popular modern day musician Taylor Swift. Just as modern artists still do, Shakespeare tries to convey a message of support towards women and their appearances and circumstances. This poem skillfully uses selective diction through selecting specific words and phrases to influence the poem. Directing his sonnet to have more meaning, his diction is influenced to include symbolism. Additionally he selects these items for comparisons to create juxtapositions. He does all this to demonstrate and reaffirm how his mistress is not like other women. This is enabled through the pairs Shakespeare has chosen to compare in order to critique the

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