My Mistress Eye Are Nothing Like The Sun Literary Analysis

Within Shakespeare's poem “My Mistress’ Eye Are Nothing Like The Sun”, Shakespeare essentially describes his mistress as an ugly abomination, with “wired” hair and dull lips, compared to the rest of society. Basically, Shakespeare make it seem as if the speaker's mistress has no redeeming qualities that any other women could have. The speaker compares her physical attributes to the ‘beauty’ of nature, but rather than providing imagery for the audience that allows them to picture a beautiful woman, he provides imagery comparing her most basic attributes to unwanted items.
The final two lines within Shakespeare's poem demonstrates the speaker's idea of a sonnets false comparisons. Rather than providing goddess-like imagery to compare his mistress to, e simply states his mistress attributes and that he ‘loves’ her no matter how she looks or smells. For instance, “I think my love is rare,” shows how the speaker is able to love his lover “belied with false compare”, meaning that the speaker doesn’t need outrageous comparisons to relate his mistress to, much like other romantic poems.
Many consider Shakespeare's poem as an elaborate joke to, or parody of, a vast amount of love poetry. Many love poems perceive the speaker's lover to be the
More than likely, the flaws discussed by the speaker would put the woman down and it may come off to the mistress that she is in no way beautiful. In fact, the mistress may even feel self-conscious after reading the Sonnet due to the idea that if the speaker, her lover, sees her in such awful ways, how does everyone else see her as? Furthermore, the woman may feel as if she is not truly loved by the speaker, since if someone were to love another, they would not assess such flaws such as “wires” for hair, or a lack of “roses/ in her