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  • This is a poem that mocks courtly love and the pastoral poetry. Shakespeare doesn't say that she is ugly but normal. This was vastly different from the love poetry of that time which compared their lady to angels, stars and etc.

  • on The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats, on December 15, 2003
    the last line "slouches towards Bethlehem to be born" has great impact. It doesn't come from Bethlehem but comes to Bethlehem. I always found that rather intresting.