This, along with other similarities in textual content, leads, as E.G. Rogers points out the similarities between Watson's "Passionate Century of Love," Sonnet 130, and Richard Linche's Poem collection entitled "Diella." There is a great deal of similarity between sections of the Diella poem collection and Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130", for example in "130" we see, "If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head," where in "Diella" we see "Her hayre exceeds fold forced in the smallest wire." Each work uses a comparison of hairs to wires while in modern sense this may seem unflattering, one could argue that Linche's work draws upon the beauty of weaving gold and that Shakespeare mocks this with harsh comparison. Poets like Thomas Watson, Michael Drayton, and Barnabe Barnes were all part of this sonnet craze and each wrote sonnets proclaiming love for an almost unimaginable figure Patrick Crutwell posits that Sonnet 130 could actually be a satire of the Thomas Watson poem "Passionate Century of Love", pointing out that the Watson poem contains all but one of the platitudes that Shakespeare is making fun of in Sonnet 130. Shakespeare composed a sonnet which seems to parody a great many sonnets of the time. Here, Barbara Mowat offers her opinion of the meaning behind Sonnet 130 this work breaks the mold to which Sonnets had come to conform. His mistress, says the poet, is nothing like this conventional image, but is as lovely as any woman". "This sonnet plays with poetic conventions in which, for example, the mistress's eyes are compared with the sun, her lips with coral, and her cheeks with roses. The meter demands that line 13's "heaven" function as one syllable. If line 2's "her" is not given contrastive accent (as is assumed above), then "than her lips' red" would also form a minor ionic. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, (130.5)
The beginning of line 5 is open to interpretation: it may be regular or an instance of initial reversal however, it is most naturally scanned with the rightward movement of the first ictus (resulting in a four-position figure, × × / /, sometimes referred to as a minor ionic): An initial reversal is potentially present in line 8, and mid-line reversals occur in lines 4 and 12, and potentially in line 3. This is followed (in line 2, scanned above) with a common metrical variation, the initial reversal. = ictus, a metrically strong syllabic position. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun Ĭoral is far more red than her lips' red: (130.1-2) The 1st line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form ABAB CDCD EFEF GG and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet. Sonnet 130 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. Shakespeare's sonnet aims to do the opposite, by indicating that his mistress is the ideal object of his affections because of her genuine qualities, and that she is more worthy of his love than the paramours of other poets who are more fanciful. In the final couplet, the speaker proclaims his love for his mistress by declaring that he makes no false comparisons, the implication being that other poets do precisely that. The first two quatrains compare the speaker's mistress to aspects of nature, such as snow or coral each comparison ending unflatteringly for the mistress. This sonnet compares the poet's mistress to a number of natural beauties each time making a point of his mistress' obvious inadequacy in such comparisons she cannot hope to stand up to the beauties of the natural world. Shakespeare satirizes the hyperbole of the allusions used by conventional poets, which even by the Elizabethan era, had become cliché, predictable, and uninspiring.
The images conjured by Shakespeare were common ones that would have been well-recognized by a reader or listener of this sonnet. It was customary to praise the beauty of the object of one's affections with comparisons to beautiful things found in nature and heaven, such as stars in the night sky, the golden light of the rising sun, or red roses. Influences originating with the poetry of ancient Greece and Rome had established a tradition of this, which continued in Europe's customs of courtly love and in courtly poetry, and the work of poets such as Petrarch.
Sonnet 130 satirizes the concept of ideal beauty that was a convention of literature and art in general during the Elizabethan era.
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