Compare and Contrast My Mistress
Compare and Contrast: "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun" & "She Walks In Beauty" Time has seen an infinite amount of beauty in its long existence. Nature has produced so many wonderful scenes and objects that we cannot collect it all even in one life. We ourselves are keepers of such beauty and intrigue that poets and other writers have captured our essence in prose. Whether it's beauty that is skin deep or the beauty of a face that makes you look twice, what attracts us is not always what attracts your neighbor. Shakespeare's, "My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun," and Lord Byron's, "She Walks in Beauty," are the epitome of what men and women long for. Although different in their interpretations of beauty, they hold true to the meaning of beauty, and the meaning of love. In Shakespeare's "My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun," beauty is definitely only skin deep. Shakespeare's description of his love is an abomination to the quintessential woman every m!an lusts for. He describes her as having, "black wires grow on her head" (Mistress line 4), instead of the beautiful, long black hair that most men would die for. Shakespeare also states, "I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath far a mor
rite about someone in this way, one would have to know the inner thoughts and feelings of that someone. Shakespeare, although in an odd fashion, poured her emotions, as well as his own, into this paradoxical description of what love should be. To Shakespeare, what you see is not always what you want, but what you know could be all you ever hoped for. One of the most beautiful love poems ever written, "She Walks in Beauty," is a drawn out description of beauty and the love of such beauty. Lord Byron describes this angelic creature as innocent, decisive, and perfect in every way, shape and form. He does not say, however, that he loves her. If there is any hint of love at all, it is for her outside appearance to the world. This could have been a gentle stranger he saw sitting in a tavern, or just someone he had made up. At any rate, Lord Byron's depiction of this mysterious woman is one of great admiration and lust. The reader does not learn any more of her, nothing about her per! William Shakespeare and Lord Byron, two of the most renowned poets of all time, both held beauty at high standards. Although different, both authors expressed a great love for what one can see and for what one can know. For Byron, it seemed that what you see is what you get. That beauty is a woman who can turn the head of every man as she walks
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