Shakespeare says: 'My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun'
Shakespeare says: 'My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun'
Shakespeare says: 'My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun'
Sonnet 130
Shakespearean sonnet #130: My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun
The rhyme scheme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun," is ababcdcdefefgg.
"Sonnet 130" satirizes the ideals of beauty of Shakespeare's time. Instead of saying that his mistress is as beautiful as a flower, a summer's day, etc., he details all of the ways in which she fails to compare to anything of that nature and in fact is not attractive at all.
The sun, her lips are not as red as coral, her breasts are not white as snow, and her hair is like black wires. Despite this, the narrator still finds his mistress rare and more valuable than these exaggerated comparisons.
It's a sonnet.
Its way of saying the eyes see all, gives love and provides warm feeling. just 5 words "eyes are like the sun". some will add penetrating, see into your soul
Shakespeare. It's the first line of his Sonnet 130.
Actually, he doesn't - as he makes clear in the opening line. He goes on to mock such comparisons, popular in poetry, but essentially unrealistic.
Some examples of Shakespeare's short sonnets include Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"), Sonnet 29 ("When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes"), and Sonnet 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun").