Analysis Of My Mistress Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun

A poem is a piece of writing that expresses emotions, life experiences, personal observation, and individual thoughts about life, love, and friendship of poets. Moreover, poem is usually written in separate lines, using chosen, figurative words and poetic devices such as alliteration, simile, metaphor, and rhythm to create sound and imagery for poems. To illustrate, the poem “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” written by a famous poet, William Shakespeare, is the particular love poem. In this poem, Shakespeare uses his sonnet style, along with other poetic devices such as simile to describe his love toward his ordinary mistress. At first, if readers only go briefly over the poem, they may think that the purpose of the poem is to insult an imperfect woman. Therefore, there is nothing worth noticing. However, if we slowly read, and deeply analyze this

Although Shakespeare’s personal life and relationships are still controversial topics for Shakespearians, by learning his sonnets, many literatures partially discovered many interesting aspects of Shakespeare’s personal life. He wrote about 154 sonnets. It is divided into two main points. Form the Sonnets 1 to 126, Shakespeare expresses a close friendship toward an unnamed male friend who is considered younger than Shakespeare (Shakespeare’s sonnets). For the next twenty four sonnets, Shakespeare addresses to a mysterious woman in Shakespeare’s life who is consider as a “Dark Lady” by scholars. In the Sonnet 130, “My Mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”, Shakespeare revealed a little about the Dark Lady’s appearance which many scholars based on in order to interpret Shakespeare’s point of view toward love and beauty. Moreover, although there are so many assumptions around the identification of “Dark Lady” have been made by scholars, the truth about who was “Dark Lady” still remains unknown (Shakespearean