Shakespeare's Sonnets

How do you analyze women in WILLIAM SHAKESPHEARE'S sonnets?Justify your answer by using sonnet number 130

analization of women in sonnet 130

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Here the speaker tones down the romanticism of women. She is not as beautiful as things found in nature, another typical source of inspiration for the average sonneteer: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; / Coral is far more red than her lips' red." Yet the narrator loves her nonetheless, and in the closing couplet says that in fact she is just as extraordinary ("rare") as any woman described with such exaggerated or false comparisons. It is indeed this blunt but charming sincerity that has made sonnet 130 one of the most famous in the sequence.