In the poem My Mistress' Eyes, I am dumbfounded by the blunt attitude and truth that William Shakespeare is able to convey in a poem. I think that this concept was so amazing to me because this is usually exactly what is done in poetry.
Shakespeare is able to build up the image of his mistress as an average lady. He does this by tearing down the conventional ways that women are portrayed and simply implying that she is average. He says that she isn't like the other women in the way that she doesn't believe the lies that are fed to her about her personality. He refuses to say these unnaturally characteristic things about the physical aspects of his love and finds his own personal awe in that fact.
I think that I like it the most when he says, "If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head,"(4) because he just blatantly says an idea that the majority of humanity would find offense but somehow finds a way to turn it into an odd compliment. It seems that in his revealing that he doesn't love all that he knows about her, he finds her to be entirely her own. His description of her as, "My love as rare,"(13) seriously brings in the brownie points. He saves probably the greatest compliment possible until the very end. His ability to find the unique aspects of his love draw him to believe that she herself is rare and he loves her for it.
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