Alternate Title to Sonnet 130

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I need help!!!! I have a group assignment about Shakespeare and I've been assigned Sonnet 130 and I would like some assistance or information that could lead me into creating and alternate title for Sonnet 130

Sonnet 130
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.


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What have you come up with so far?
 

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well since shakespeare is kinda of mocking Petrarch's euphoric sonnets...I was thinking the title to be like "Untraditional Euphoria!
 

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It's possibly more mocking the excesses and clichés used by poets following Petrarch, in which case 'unconventional' might be a reasonable choice of word because these lesser poets slavishly follow the conventions and forms, turning them into sterile hyperbole.
 

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For Some reason I feel my title to be somewhat bombastic I wish I could put it in simple terms that people can understand and relate to.
 

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The plain truth
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