Question

What is the relationship between the couplet at the end and the three quatrains of Sonnet 130? The couplet reverses the ideas stated in the first three quatrains. The final couplet only reinforces the main idea in the first quatrain. The three quatrains express different ideas, which are summarized by the couplet. Each quatrain develops the main idea, which is restated in the final couplet.

Answer 1

Answer:The couplet reverses the ideas stated in the first three quatrains

Explanation:The couplet at the end express a message opposite of that shown in the quatrains that precede it

Answer 2

The couplet reverses the ideas stated in the first three quatrains.

The first three quatrains all insult his love. They say her breath stinks, music is more pleasing than her voice, her hair is like wires...etc. Even though he goes through all these characteristics of his love and says how they are all lacking in some way, at the end of the sonnet he declares his love for her. Throughout the poem the reader wonders if the speaker actually loves the woman he is describing, but in the last couplet his love for her is unquestioning.