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The speaker in Sonnet 130 challenges the Petrarchan tradition of putting the beloved upon a pedestal to show the lover's affection.

William Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 paints an unattractive yet loving portrait of the speaker's mistress.

Is Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 a moving and radical attempt to write a realistic love poem, or an attack on his work of his poetic contemporaries?