I have always really liked "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun." I get a kick out of the refutation of the typical, flowery love sonnet about the perfect lady-love that's so overblown as to be ridiculous and patently inhuman. I so get his point that such spectacles of adoration aren't real love. A clear-eyed, honest love is so much more real, so much more loving, so much more interesting.
Me too! I love the idea that real love embraces faults and loves despite them.
I read the wikipedia page about the sonnets, and they seem to suggest that whoever this woman is, he didn't really love her or she was actually off-putting and unattractive.
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Date: 2020-09-02 01:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-02 02:23 pm (UTC)I read the wikipedia page about the sonnets, and they seem to suggest that whoever this woman is, he didn't really love her or she was actually off-putting and unattractive.
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Date: 2020-09-02 04:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-02 08:07 pm (UTC)