My Mistress Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun
In sharp contrast, sonnet 130 and 147 use dark diction to express the dark lady. In sonnet 130 the speaker uses comparison / “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;” to begin the sonnet to express the almost demonic mysterious appearance of the lady. Another comparison is the dark lady to a “goddess” and how a goddess does not walk, but rather floats, but the speaker’s lady “treads on the ground” (pp550). The speaker shows how his dark lady is far from perfect and may lack many of the qualities that society during this time fantasied woman possess. The speaker shifts the poem from explain all the things this lady lacks and expressing how this does not matter to him
“I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.” (pp 550)
“I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.” (pp 550)