My Mistress's eyes
...stress does not have bright eyes. Again his faulting of her can be seen in the second and third line. “Coral is far more red than her lips’ red…I have seen roses damasked red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks”(Shakespeare 1057). He tells that she does not have red lips or rosy red cheeks, all of which would make her beautiful. Yet we see further on in the sonnet that this does not matter to him. He is only writing of these faults she has, to in the end show how much he loves her. “I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound”(Shakespeare 1057). In this line alone you can truly see what he is trying to get across to the reader. Yes there is something better than the voice of his mistress yet he still loves and wants to hear her speak to him. It is not important to him that there is something that sounds better than his mistress. Yet Shakespeare is saying more than we should love somebody even if they are not perfect. He is saying that it is necessary to love the imperfections of a person. That after all is really what true love is, loving someone for his or her imperfections. Looking at the things that can be seen as bad and accepting at the same time as embracing them. He knows that a love like his is rare, because how many people truly love someone and their imperfections. This sonnet has a clear tone of realism. When describing his mistress Shakespeare does not talk of how beautiful and perfect she is like most love poems. He tells us his real thoughts of the way she looks, speaks, and walks. However, with all these shortcomings he still loves and loves her very deeply. It is almost like through this ...