Sonnet 130 Figurative Language

Sonnet 130 Shakespeare put a twist on how similes and metaphors are used to compare the girl the narrator loves to other girls and/or things that represent beauty. Instead of using similes and metaphors to compare things that are alike, Shakespeare used them to contrast the girl with different things that she is not. In other words, he used them to show everything that the girl is different in, doesn't have, and is flawed in. Shakespeare does this to show that the narrator truly loves the girl even around all of her flaws. “My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun,”also, “And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.” Shakespeare compared her to things that she is not rather than what she is like. He did this to make
As the sonnet goes on, it seems to be only comparing her to the things she is not, the narrator has a judgmental tone. But during the last quatrain and the couplet, He says that he loves her no matter her flaws because it's about what is on the inside not the out. “I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound,” also,“And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.” He mentions how he loves to hear her speak, but he knows that there are more pleasing sounds. He also says that he thinks their love is rare because he doesn't let her flaws get in the way of his love for her. Shakespeare uses a judgemental tone to compare/contrast her to everything that she is not. He does this to show how the girl may look different to others and maybe even to himself, but he looks past that because the lover for her beats all of her flaws. Love should be from the inside, not how someone looks on the outside. Love is strong enough to look past someone's flaws because what is on the inside matters