In the poem, Shakespeare describles his love in the most honest way.
He doesn't pretend she is something she is not, instead it talks about how she actually is. In conventional love poems the love or person being describled is done so in a possible false way that doesnt truly represent how they look. In this he does though, 'I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,/ But no such roses see I in her cheeks' In most love poems you read, the cheeks of people are describled as being the colour of roses, but hers are not. Shakespeare knows this and doesn't care. At the end of the poem he talkes about although there is all this, he still loves her.
As the poem continues Shakespeare persist's to talk about how she really looks, nothing like the conventional, ideal image of a lover. 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;' This is kind of a miss uses simily aswell as the true. Everyone knows what a sun looks like and instead of what you would normally find, something like 'My mistress' eyes are like the sun.'
Starts well but doesn't seem to have been completed as homework! There isn't really enough for me to assess this.
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