William Shakespeare's sonnet 130 takes a new direction in describing women. His usual sonnets depict women to be majestic creatures that are on a different plateau then everybody else. He uses exaggeration to conceal the flaws women have but in sonnet 130 the speaker expresses the true beauty of his lover by using similes to admit her flaws and embrace them.
Poets tend to compare women to the sun relating her to its beautiful radiant glow. The speaker begins using the simile" My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun". He is saying that her eyes do not stand out to him and that they are dull. The speaker accepts the fact that his lover's eyes are not overwhelmingly gorgeous.
At first the speaker seems to be insulting his lover by describing her voice to be annoying and her breath to reek terribly. He is state’s her flaws so that he can conclude with his overall point. At the end of sonnet 130 the speaker says, "And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare." This simile explains that the speaker’s feelings for his lover are incomparable in the face of women who are over-exaggerated. A women's natural beauty is superb to beauty engulfed in falsehood.
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