<P> `` This sonnet plays with poetic conventions in which , for example , the mistress 's eyes are compared with the sun , her lips with coral , and her cheeks with roses . His mistress , says the poet , is nothing like this conventional image , but is as lovely as any woman '' . Here , Barbara Mowat offers her opinion of the meaning behind Sonnet 130 ; this work breaks the mold to which Sonnets had come to conform . Shakespeare composed a sonnet which seems to parody a great many sonnets of the time . Poets like Thomas Watson , Michael Drayton , and Barnabe Barnes were all part of this sonnet craze and each wrote sonnets proclaiming love for an almost unimaginable figure ; Patrick Crutwell posits that Sonnet 130 could actually be a satire of the Thomas Watson poem `` Passionate Century of Love '' , pointing out that the Watson poem contains all but one of the platitudes that Shakespeare is making fun of in Sonnet 130 . However , E.G. Rogers points out the similarities between Watson 's `` Passionate Century of Love , '' Sonnet 130 , and Richard Linche 's Poem collection entitled `` Diella . '' There is a great deal of similarity between sections of the Diella poem collection and Shakespeare 's `` Sonnet 130 '' , for example in `` 130 '' we see , `` If hairs be wires , black wires grow on her head , '' where in `` Diella '' we see `` Her hayre exceeds fold forced in the smallest wire . '' Each work uses a comparison of hairs to wires ; while in modern sense this may seem unflattering , one could argue that Linche 's work draws upon the beauty of weaving gold and that Shakespeare mocks this with harsh comparison . This , along with other similarities in textual content , lead , as E.G. Rogers points out , the critic to believe that Diella may have been the source of inspiration for both homage , by Watson 's `` Passionate Century of Love , '' and satire by Shakespeare 's `` Sonnet 130 . '' The idea of Satire is further enforced by final couplet of `` 130 '' in which the speaker delivers his most expositional line : `` And yet , by heaven , I think my love as rare , as any she belied with false compare . '' This line projects the message behind this work , demeaning the false comparisons made by many poets of the time . </P>
<P> `` This sonnet plays with poetic conventions in which , for example , the mistress 's eyes are compared with the sun , her lips with coral , and her cheeks with roses . His mistress , says the poet , is nothing like this conventional image , but is as lovely as any woman '' . Here , Barbara Mowat offers her opinion of the meaning behind Sonnet 130 ; this work breaks the mold to which Sonnets had come to conform . Shakespeare composed a sonnet which seems to parody a great many sonnets of the time . Poets like Thomas Watson , Michael Drayton , and Barnabe Barnes were all part of this sonnet craze and each wrote sonnets proclaiming love for an almost unimaginable figure ; Patrick Crutwell posits that Sonnet 130 could actually be a satire of the Thomas Watson poem `` Passionate Century of Love '' , pointing out that the Watson poem contains all but one of the platitudes that Shakespeare is making fun of in Sonnet 130 . However , E.G. Rogers points out the similarities between Watson 's `` Passionate Century of Love , '' Sonnet 130 , and Richard Linche 's Poem collection entitled `` Diella . '' There is a great deal of similarity between sections of the Diella poem collection and Shakespeare 's `` Sonnet 130 '' , for example in `` 130 '' we see , `` If hairs be wires , black wires grow on her head , '' where in `` Diella '' we see `` Her hayre exceeds fold forced in the smallest wire . '' Each work uses a comparison of hairs to wires ; while in modern sense this may seem unflattering , one could argue that Linche 's work draws upon the beauty of weaving gold and that Shakespeare mocks this with harsh comparison . This , along with other similarities in textual content , lead , as E.G. Rogers points out , the critic to believe that Diella may have been the source of inspiration for both homage , by Watson 's `` Passionate Century of Love , '' and satire by Shakespeare 's `` Sonnet 130 . '' The idea of Satire is further enforced by final couplet of `` 130 '' in which the speaker delivers his most expositional line : `` And yet , by heaven , I think my love as rare , as any she belied with false compare . '' This line projects the message behind this work , demeaning the false comparisons made by many poets of the time . </P>
shakespeare my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun meaning
shakespeare my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun meaning
This sonnet plays with poetic conventions in which , for example , the mistress 's eyes are compared with the sun , her lips with coral , and her cheeks with roses . His mistress , says the poet , is nothing like this conventional image , but is as lovely as any woman
This sonnet plays with poetic conventions in which , for example , the mistress 's eyes are compared with the sun , her lips with coral , and her cheeks with roses . His mistress , says the poet , is nothing like this conventional image , but is as lovely as any woman