When looking for a girlfriend or a boyfriend we are always told it is not what is on the outside but what is on the inside that counts. Being in a relationship proves this theory to be true almost all of the time. Some of the most beautiful people do the most ugly things and some of the most ugly people do the most beautiful things. In this poem this is exactly what Shakespeare is trying to get across. All those things that we are told make people beautiful on the outside do not really count, when you find someone you truly love. In this essay Shakespeare has found someone he truly loves and nothing else seems to matter.
             When reading the first few lines of this poem it looks like Shakespeare is just faulting his mistress for all the things that she is not. The title and the first line of this poem are basically saying that his mistress does not have bright eyes. Again his faulting of her can be seen in the second and third line. "Coral is far more red than her lips' red...I have seen roses damasked red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks"(Shakespeare 1057). He tells that she does not have red lips or rosy red cheeks, all of which would make her beautiful. Yet we see further on in the sonnet that this does not matter to him.
             He is only writing of these faults she has, to in the end show how much he loves her. "I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound"(Shakespeare 1057). In this line alone you can truly see what he is trying to get across to the reader. Yes there is something better than the voice of his mistress yet he still loves and wants to hear her speak to him. It is not important to him that there is something that sounds better than his mistress. Yet Shakespeare is saying more than we should love somebody even if they are not perfect. He is saying that it is necessary to love the imperfections of a person. That after all is really what...