Other Beauties William Shakespeare’s sonnet, 130, is a fourteen line poem in which Shakespeare compares nature to his mistress. Throughout the poem the speaker compares his lover to a number of other beauties and never in the lovers favor. Negative comparisons, positively complicated comparisons and the speaker’s definition of his love all play a part of the pros and cons in this poem. Sonnet 130 explains about how the speaker’s mistress can have many …showed first 75 words of 509 total…

…showed last 75 words of 509 total…A respectful man bypasses his lovers human qualities and thinks of them as supremely pleasing. This is another example of a negative comparison in this poem. Lady’s love to smell good because of the invention of perfume and for a man to say that her breath reeks is a insult. Along with this insult of awful breath and the other two insults described in the preceding two paragraphs, these insults are somewhat equally statused.