My mistress' eyes (Tone Poems)

"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;"

In Shakespeare's poem, he is comparing parts of his mistress to nature. He uses lots of similes to make the connectionns. He is praising nature by saying that the things he sees in nature are much better than what he sees in his mistress. At first, I thought it was a poem more about how bad his mistress was, but then came to realize that he was just in awe of nature's beauty. In the end, he explains that he still loves this girl more than anything. The lines, "And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare/ As any she belied with false compare" prove this statement. Shakespeare is contrasting with the normal comparisons used in love poems and saying that he doesn't love her any less, but doesn't have to lie about her physical attributes. He says that one does not have to lie to his mistress to love her.