The name of this sonnet is Sonnet 130 and it is written by William Shakespeare. The speaker of this sonnet is someone who compares his mistress with natural beauties. Most of the sonnets in late sixteenth hundred were composed about women whom they loved and admired. Whereas many other authors during this time praised women’s physical characteristic, Shakespeare on the other hand stated that his mistress lacked many good physical characteristics. The author uses metaphors, comparison and connotative language in order to convey the message of women’s characteristics. The structure of the sonnet is Shakespearean sonnet. The problem of this sonnet is that the speaker doesn’t find delightful characteristics in his mistress. He states that his mistress eyes are never like the sun and that “Coral is far more red than her lips’ red” (2). He …show more content…
Her eyes and her lips were very dull which made her less attractive. He also states that she was far less white than the snow and that she has black hairs on her head. “If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head”(4). This has a very negative connotation because the speaker is comparing her hair to black wires. Later he also talks about how roses are far more red then her cheek and there is more delight in perfumes “Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks” (8). But after this, there is a turn in the last couplet where he finally reveals the intent of the poem. “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare/As any she belied with false compare” (13-14). He believed that true love doesn’t need favorable conceits in order to be true and that love could be true regardless of flaws and defect in character and personality. Some of the devices used in this sonnet are Parody and Metaphors. The entire poem parodies Petrarchan sonnets because Petrarchan sonnet mainly conceits about feminine beauty and their personality.