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    This sonnet describes the physical imperfections of the speaker's mistress in an unconventional way. In 3 sentences, it states that while her eyes are not sunlike, her lips not truly red, and her skin not perfect, the speaker finds his love of her as great as any goddess. The unconventional praise rejects false ideals of beauty and physical perfection.

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    This sonnet describes the physical imperfections of the speaker's mistress in an unconventional way. In 3 sentences, it states that while her eyes are not sunlike, her lips not truly red, and her skin not perfect, the speaker finds his love of her as great as any goddess. The unconventional praise rejects false ideals of beauty and physical perfection.

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    Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nolhlng I·,ke ...

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    Sonnet 130: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun


    BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE <;vi-'\ vo-s-,+i1~~\I oF 1;\ZJ <: /,_ owS ye:::. <r< /'"'7')=!''"'<
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    My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun( \v 5 \.--i ol.,J hOV--' \'J l"'11.?Q /&f cr.v~ ,-af/,L{/_ (

    Coral is far more red than her lips' red; - {''- j}' 'J":'.J i:?R>"'-""

    If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;


    If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
    I have seen roses dttlta;~~tf;- red and white,
    JlA. (l.Lj a
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    l,i -
    f'" "'S
    -. ,s,j--ye.3S
    ,~\\ \o Jut no such roses see I in her cheeks; 'j de \ <; I ' I

    ~..c:r ,r And in some perfumes is there more delight


    V'i2dso""'-~han in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
    "- I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
    That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
    c,oJ•~<..eJ> v-»
    ..,\ J- k C\. n~ evt.(r,,
    I grant I never saw a goddess go; - v 0~ 5

    \rJti0- My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground.- ltof--c-_J


    \-osl And yet, by heaven, I think mv love as...ra.tL- - i/,,1}n /.;) / c"l/r. ,'r: 5"~,,_,' - <(
    1,<t,,Jli~<;;
    . A£ any she belied with false compare. 1 1•
    \u '--- hua. tr-l\.ra.nce h~ks \. ovv Lov-Ct.k,U:.-,!;H-- ;-'>
    Source: The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume One Seventh Edition (2000)

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