Shakespeare

Other Beauties William Shakespeare’s sonnet, 130, is a fourteen line poem in which Shakespeare compares nature to his mistress. Throughout the poem the speaker compares his lover to a number of other beauties and never in the lovers favor. Negative comparisons, positively complicated comparisons and the speaker’s definition of his love all play a part of the pros and cons in this poem. Sonnet 130 explains about how the speaker’s mistress can have many …

…A respectful man bypasses his lovers human qualities and thinks of them as supremely pleasing. This is another example of a negative comparison in this poem. Lady’s love to smell good because of the invention of perfume and for a man to say that her breath reeks is a insult. Along with this insult of awful breath and the other two insults described in the preceding two paragraphs, these insults are somewhat equally statused.