I really appreciate the main idea which is expressed in this
sonnet. Many people reading "My mistress' eyes" by William
Shakespeare, might get a wrong sense of what the poet wants to say.
Apparently, analyzing this poem we can realise very quickly
that he does not praise his lady, indeed, he uses a great number of similes to
describe her physical defects. However, he truly loves her, despite the fact
that she is not the most beautiful and graceful woman in the whole world.
This sonnet differs a lot from other Renaissance poems,
which represent just an idealisation of beauty and love. It is really hard to
believe that the women, described in these texts, were so perfect, personally,
I do not think human beings should love
the people they idealize and play up in their heads. We all have to put up with
the defects of our lovers and even appreciate them.
Though physically unattractive the "dark lady
" appears , in Shakespeare 's
poems, really desirable. He dislikes completely the contemporary ideal of love
and I agree with him. In my opinion, people should deeply know their partners
and accept them, in the way they are.
Anyway, I do not mean that the appearance has to be ignore, but it is not
more important than the character,
thoughts and feelings of a person. It is impossible to love someone who is
beautiful but empty.
Genni Xhihani 4^C
‘My mistress eyes’ is a sonnet composed by William Shakespeare and belongs to the second part of his sonnets, which are referred to a dark lady.
RispondiEliminaShakespeare describes his beloved as an ugly woman and compares her to different elements, like the sun or the snow. I think Shakespeare did not mean to hurt his lady but wanted to tell her that she is the most beautiful to his eyes, that she is the one he is going to love forever despite her physical features.
I really like this sonnet because it is original and mostly different from the other sonnets written in that time, which always tells us how perfect their ladies are. It is not the body that defines a behaviour, but the soul.
Maybe Shakespeare felt in love with the way she thought and the way she moved, with her behaviour, and only later he learnt to appreciate her body. Because I am sure the first impression is important but I also believe that a pretty face is not everything at all.
I love the way the turning point has been placed at the beginning of the final couplet as he wants to say that, even if coral is more red than her lips and sun is brighter than her eyes, there will always be her above all these things. I love the way he describes her voice as he wants to suggest us that despite being not as music sound he prefers it a lot more. Sometimes love could be nothing but ugliness. Sometimes it is called love what a common person could describe as beauty, but we have to understand that a person truly loves another when he or she is able to accept and love the negative aspects more than the positive ones.
Giorgio Baiguini 4^c Scientifico