Love has long been the subject of poems for centuries. Usually, in love poems esp. sonnets, poets often celebrate or express their love by perfecting their beloved’s appearance or depicting love as an admirable and power thing. For example, “my lady’s presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame” (Norton 295). Traditionally, female lover’s beauty is portrayed in a series of exaggerated comparisons, such as your eyes are like stars; you cheeks are like roses and so forth. But in Sonnet 130, Shakespeare gives up the conventions of love sonnets. He plays upon those unequal comparisons in traditional love poems to express the speaker’s love towards his mistress.
In spite of using traditional images for compar
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