Shakespeare Sonnet 130

Shakespeare’s Ode

“But honey, just because you aren’t as pretty as my ex-girlfriend doesn’t mean I don’t love you! I mean, I still care about you even if you have really bad body odor.” Can you seriously imagine the love of your life telling you this? Well, if anyone can get away with it, it would definitely be William Shakespeare.
In Sonnet 130, Shakespeare writes about his “love.” This sonnet, on the surface, appears to do nothing more than to insult his woman. He picks apart all her features and either compares them to objects, or he compares her to the exact opposite of what they are. But, if you look deeper into the poem, you’ll find a raw honesty that is intense with his love. Shakespeare declares his unconditional love to a woman despite her imperfections. We can give a closer look into the true meaning of the poem by analyzing the syntax, especially the metaphoric usage, the imagery, and the diction.
In the first quatrain, Shakespeare stat...