Belied with False Compare - Sonnet 130

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" those are world-famous words written by William Shakespeare, one of the world's best writers. in addition to his numerous plays, he also wrote poetry, and his poems slowly became more cynical and more observant that the world was not only unicorns and rainbows. This doesn't exactly relate to anxiety, but this site is also about seeing the beauty in something normally considered 'ugly'. In this case, it's the subject of this odd love poem.

The most part of the poem is describing a woman. But never did the writer say the woman was ugly. I believe the poet was referencing the woman as an African American woman, because her lips are no red, neither are her cheeks, and her breasts are dun, which means a brownish color. But, in the last two lines, the poet says that even though she is considered ugly by other people, the author says that he loves her still.

This hit me, because Shakespeare saw more of a darker side of the world, and in comparison to his Sonnet 18, it is very dark and cynical, but it is still poetry.