Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130.”My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red, than her lips red:If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,But no such roses see I in her cheeks;And in some perfumes is there more delightThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks.I love to hear her speak, yet well I knowThat music hath a far more pleasing sound:I grant I never saw a goddess go,—My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,As any she belied with false compare.
Answer
A
My mistress is unattractive.
B
My mistress is beautiful.
C
My mistress has a natural beauty.
D
My mistress is not as beautiful as nature.
Explanation
The speaker contrasts his mistress with idealized images from nature: her eyes are not like the sun, her lips are less red than coral, and her cheeks lack the color of roses. But the ending says he loves her and considers her as rare as any woman praised through exaggerated comparisons. The poem values her genuine, natural beauty rather than claiming she is unattractive or less beautiful than nature.
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