My Mistress Tone

Analysis of the sonnet, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” William Shakespeare is well known for his unique style of writing, and really changed the tone of romantic poetry with his sonnet “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”. He wanted the readers to see a different side of what beauty was he wanted them to see a more realistic view of a women. In the 1600 time frame the writers made women seems so prefect and angelic; which is not at all the way most women really look. Shakespeare seems to want the reader to look at the true mean of love not the physical aspects of beauty which will fade in time. Shakespeare’s use of sarcasm, imagery, and satire brings a twist to his theme, which points out not all women are as beautiful
“If snow be white, why then her breasts dun”, this is a cliché of how a woman’s skin should be white like the snow (Shakespeare). Not all women have pale skin some brown skin and Shakespeare is pointing that out in this line. Reading in to the poem would make a reader see that any skin color can be beautiful. Just as any skin color can be beautiful so can any hair color, which is his point in his next line “If hair be wires, black wires grow on her head” (Shakespeare). The reader may find his use of black wires to be over the top, but he used this in a way as to make a point that not all women have beautiful long flowing
At first the reader might be a little put off by his words about the mistress, but the poem has a little twist to that shows the hidden mean of the satire. So readers have found humor in the mistress breath being compared to perfumes. Shakespeare writes, “And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks”, with a bit of humor to make his point to the reader (Shakespeare). This style of satire was not seen or heard of in times of Shakespeare, which may lead readers to believe he was a writer born before his times. “And yes, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she° belied with false compare”, must be the strongest point in the poem (Shakespeare). This last part of the poem is the turning point in which the reader now understand what Shakespeare was try to say. It leads the readers to believe that beauty cannot be measured just by the eyes but sometime the heart. The way that Shakespeare writes this Sonnet could lead some to thing he was a bit tired of the same old romantic poetry. He might have also been making fun of some of his fellow poets of his