Shakespeare Sonnet 130 Tone

At some point in our lives we will fall in love like no other has before. This love will be different and nothing will compare to this person. No poem nor song nor person could explain the feelings or love for that person. In Sonnet 130, Shakespeare wrote a sonnet about the person he loves and this love compares to no other. In most sonnets he has written he has compared beauty to the most beautiful things but this sonnet is different. He talks about her beauty but contrasted it from things that were beautiful. Shakespeare uses a critical and crucial tone to suggest that love oversees all flaws and that they do not matter when it comes it comes to true love. In the first two quatrains he uses a critical and contrasting tone to describe her
Shakespeare states in the third quatrain, “I love to hear her speak, yet well I know, / That music hath a far more pleasing sound:” (lines 9-10). He wrote these to lines to describe her voice he loves to hear her speak even though music might sound more pleasant. The word choices he chose to use like the word “pleasing” it means beautiful or enjoyable sounds. He contrasted her voice from the sound of music just to plainly say that he loves the sound of her voice even if music might sound more beautiful. Shakespeare also wrote in the third quatrain, “I grant I never saw a goddess go, / My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.” (lines 11-12). No woman will ever be a goddess even if they are compared or contrasted to one. Goddess are very beautiful but even if they do not look like one they can and still have beauty. When he says she walks treads on the ground what he means is she is heavy footed. The word choice he used such as “goddess” and “treads” have an effective meaning as to why he does not compare her as how others compare their mistress’ beauty to the most beautiful
Shakespeare states in the couplet that, “And yet by heaven I think my love as rare,” (line 13). He has written this line to state that his love is not like other loves. The word “rare” Shakespeare uses in line 13 was to say that she is special and that their love is different from others. Shakespeare’s word choice in the very last line used words such as “belied” which means misunderstood and “false compare” which means that nothing compares to it, to state that he would not compare her to things that are not what he views her as. He wrote these to lines to say that their love is rare and that he would not falsely compare her to something she is not like all the other poems