The Different Perceptions of Love

According to the French feminist Simone de Beauvoir, "the word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one of the most serious misunderstandings that divide them." In Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, and Walker's Roselily, all have different perceptives on the word love.
The sonnet 130, written by William Shakespeare, shows his passionate love towards his woman, expressing that he knows women are not the perfect beauties they are portrayed to be and that we should love them anyway. He uses two types of descriptions, one of their physical beauty and the other of their characteristics. One of the physical attributes that he mentions is his "mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun," meaning she has no shine or twinkle to her eyes that will make her physical appearance beautiful.
Love poems of Shakespeare's time period made women out to be superficial goddesses. Sonnet 130 takes the love poem to a deeper, more intimate level where l...