Which line best supports an interpretation that the
poem is sincere and serious?
"If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head"
"But no such roses see I in her cheeks"
"That music hath a far more pleasing sound"
"And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare"
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go-
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.
And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,
As any she belied with false compare.
- "Sonnet 130,"
William Shakespeare

And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare

Explanation:

In this sonnet Shakespeare tackles the various stereotypes of love and takes apart the appearance of his lover by saying terrible things about it. He mentions that her hair is like wires, and her breath reeks and she does not walk gracefully but tread.

He notices all her plain and simple dispositions and then notes that by heaven he thinks that his love for her is rare and true, so this statement shows his honesty.

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Explanation:

I answered it on Edg

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.