Sonnet 130
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
I grant I never saw a goddess go,
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,
As any she belied with false compare.
And the song 'You are so beautiful' written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher
You are so beautiful to ME
You are so beautiful to ME
Can’t you see
you’re everything I hoped for
You’re everything I need
You are so beautiful to ME
you are so beautiful to me
You are so beautiful to me
Cant you see
you’re everything I hope for
You’re everything I need
You are so beautiful to me
You’re beautiful to me
both the sonnet and this song deal with the theme that 'the mistress of Shakespeare and the girl in
the song are not beautiful in outward appearance, but they are beautiful to Shakespeare and the
author of the song because they love very much.
Shakespeare uses several similes and comparisons to show that his mistress is nothing like the
mistresses described by other poets.
And in the song, they say that, even though you are not beautiful to others, to ME you are
beautiful. It is love that defines beauty and not beauty that defines love.
Sonnet 29 Grenade by Bruno Mars?
sonnet 29 is Leave Out All the Rest by Linkin Park?
Sonnet 130-"I Love You Just The Way You Are" by Billy Joel?
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