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 An Analysis of Sonnet 130

Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare is certainly one of my favorite sonnets. The depiction of love is very distinctive compared to Petrarchan sonnets. He doesn’t depict his beloved as a heavenly object that no one can reach nor does he praise her beauty exaggeratedly. I think this represents real love more than other sonnets since he still loves his beloved despite her flaws. Everyone can love a virtuous woman who has blonde hair and blue eyes but the woman that Shakespeare portrays is nothing like that, I think she is just a normal woman who doesn’t fit conventional beauty standards. He starts the sonnet with “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” He implies his beloved’s eyes are not as bright, pure, and beautiful as the Sun. However, her eyes could symbolize the beauty of another object other than the Sun and I think that object is the Moon.

In Shakespeare’s sonnets, he often depicts a dark lady who is self-aware of her body and sexuality. In my opinion, The mistress in this sonnet represents the Moon and the darkness since her lips and cheeks are not red and her skin is a grayish color. People can’t see the color red in the dark; in Hannibal (2013) Hannibal says blood appears black in the moonlight. Perhaps that’s why there is no redness in her cheeks and lips. In addition, the Moon’s surface is gray just like Shakespeare’s mistress’ complexion, therefore I think her beauty is a reflection of the Moon. He compares his beloved’s hair to black wires, again there is an indication of her darkness, her hair is not light, it is messy as interlocking wires and it doesn’t fit the beauty standards of the Elizabethan period. The messiness of her hair reminds me of the wildness and danger of the night. Speaking of this, I think her unpleasant breath represents the filth of the night.

Daytimes usually belong to women and children yet nights are certainly men’s domain. Nights remind me of the smell of sweat and alcohol in brothels, so perhaps her bad breath symbolizes this. He continues the sonnet by saying that he loves the sound of her voice but music is more pleasing than her. Perhaps the music here is the sound that birds make in the morning. It ıs known that in the morning birds sing but at night the sound of crickets is more common. Some people still love this sound of course but most of them would prefer the melody of the birds. Hence Shakespeare says he loves the tone of her voice as people who like cricket sounds yet still conventionally birds have a more pleasing harmony.

In the last couplets of the sonnet, he confesses that even though his mistress is not that attractive according to those Petrarchan sonneteers, he still fancies her. That’s another version of beauty perhaps not in others' eyes but Shakespeare’s. She doesn’t walk like a goddess because she is a real and normal person, an individual who deserves to be respected and loved despite her looks. That’s the reason why I love this sonnet so much because Shakespeare was way ahead of his time and I think together with his generation he breaks the rules of beauty in our time as well.