Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130.” What is the central idea of the first quatrain?

In the first quatrain, the speaker says his mistress’s eyes are not like the sun, her lips are less red than coral, her skin is not snow-white, and her hair is like dark wires. These comparisons show that she does not match idealized images of nature’s beauty. The choice “My mistress is not as beautiful as nature” best captures the quatrain’s central idea.

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