Original poem reprinted online here: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun (Sonnet 130)" by William Shakespeare Originally read: I think middle school, but I printed this out July 3, 2013 More information about the Poet: William Shakespeare Another poem with a lot of analysis and criticisms. This poem though, regardless of how many analysis and criticisms are written about it, is fun to look at again and again? Why? For me, it's the tone of the speaker -- the sheer audacity to write, basically, to state what is beautiful and what is not beautiful. The poem, written in Elizabethan Sonnet, gives a lot of leeway to the speaker. The first twelve lines, yeah, let's define beauty and what is not beautiful. Last two lines, volta, "And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare." The speaker will love her, of course, regardless of her. "Her" being not the most "beautiful" -- she is lesser in th...
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