Beyond The Beauty
As human beings, most people search for true love at one point or another in life. For most, true love is when they find someone that they can connect to emotionally and mentally while possessing some form of physical beauty. While the aspect of physical beauty is what most seek first, most true love oversees the outer appearance of a person. In sonnet 130, William Shakespeare voices how his lover has in no way a perfect appearance. However, her physical appearance does not affect his love for her in any way. Shakespeare uses an analytical tone that shifts to a passionate tone to argue that physical appearance has no influence on true love.
In the first few quatrains, Shakespeare uses an analytical tone to express the imperfection in his “mistress” (line 1). Shakespeare begins his sonnet analyzing the qualities of his “mistress” explaining that her “eyes are nothing like the sun,” and “coral” is more red “than her lips” (1-2). The speaker compares these things to his mistress to prove that she has her physical imperfections. He states another example of her lacking
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Even though the speaker still analyzes his lover, he begins to reveal that even though she does not have the best qualities he still loves her. For example, the last quatrain begins, “I love to hear her speak, yet well I know, / That music hath a far more pleasing sound:” (9-10). The speaker begins to state he loves the qualities she has, even if they are not the best there is. He then goes on to affirm his love for his lover despite all he has said about her. In the last couplet, the speaker states, “And yet by heaven I think my love as rare, / As any she belied with false compare” (13-14). He strongly expresses his passionate tone when he uses the words “by heaven”. These words serve to affirm the love he has for his