Read Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 carefully. Why do you think Shakespeare chooses to describe his girl friend of him in the manner he does?
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SONNET 130
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips de ella ‘red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts of her are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head from her.
I have seen roses damask’d, red and white, 5
But no such roses see I in her cheeks from her;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak of her, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound; 10
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
