Expressing Rare Love Through Nature Beauty

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Expressing Rare Love through Nature Beauty Loving someone from the “other side” of beauty: is it a satire or complementary? In Shakespeare view through his Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing like the Sun, as the speaker, Shakespeare expresses his love to his mistress that refers to a dark lady by comparing a number of nature beauties, but not in the lover’s favor. While lovers are always portrayed on a pedestal, in this sonnet, Shakespeare compares his mistress' eyes to the sun, her lips are less red than coral; compared to white snow, her breasts are dun-colored, and her hairs are like black wires on her head. In the second quatrain, he says he has seen roses separated by color into red and white, but he sees no such roses in his mistress’s cheeks; and he says the breath that “reeks” from his mistress is less delightful than perfume. In the third quatrain, he admits that, though he loves her voice, music “hath a far more pleasing sound,” and that, though he has never seen a goddess, his mistress—unlike goddesses—walks on the ground. While Shakespeare talks about all the rare things about his mistress, at the end of the sonnet, he expressed his sincere love by saying "And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare. So, I think whether it is a satire or complementary, the readers have their own judgment. As an English pre-eminent poet and playwright in Elizabethan era, William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language (1564-1616). He was a well-educated person who was known to write his non-dramatic works, especially Sonnets, throughout his career for a private readership. Over the centuries readers have pointed to Shakespeare's sonnets as evidence of his love for a young man. Others read the same passages as the expression of intense friendship rather than sexual love. At the same

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