Topic > |||The Theme of Love in Sonnet 130, Anne Hathaway, Havisham and The LaboratoryFirst of all I will talk about Sonnet 130 by William Shakespere. Now this poem has a rather strange element compared to the other poems. Some may say this is romantic, but others may disagree. Now people who disagree have justified this with the way they write and the use of words. Where the opening line is "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;" This sentence immediately implements the fact that either she is saying that her lover's eyes are so beautiful that they cannot even be compared to the sun or she is saying that her lover's eyes look nothing like the sun's. Now let's find out what he means by reading the second line “The coral is much redder than his lips”. Now we certainly know that the author is in fact rude and the image I was getting was that his lover was a rather unattractive woman. He compares her using metaphors for every part of her body and discourages her. But he describes her as an earthly and realistic woman. All women normally in poetry are misrepresented with false metaphors to describe them, but the author of this poem had not misrepresented his lover by using false metaphors to describe her. She is illustrating to us that she is a normal woman and love is not based on physical beauty, but rather on her mental personality. The author knows that women are not the perfect beauties they are portrayed as and that men should love them anyway. This is implied in the last two lines: "And yet, by heaven, I think my love is rare, like all those it has belied with false comparisons." Secondly I will analyze Carol Ann Duffy's poetry Anne Hathaway. Now, this is the same type of poem as Sonnet 130. I personally think that the speaker of the poem was quite crazy and felt hurt after having a bad experience with men. At the top of the poem it says Shakespeare on the left