While world renowned for his stage work, Shakespeare enjoyed the art of poetry rather than the plays he created. Shakespeare could put into words what people have searched their whole lives to say. Two of his more famous sonnets are numbers 18 and 130, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" and "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun", respectively.
             Within these two sonnets, Shakespeare has the same general concept of how his poem is arranged. Both of these poems obviously show Shakespeare's affection to the women at hand. Be it good or bad comments toward a specific target, Shakespeare was remarkable in his word choice and expression thereof. Furthermore, each of the poems uses the powerful force of nature to describe affection toward each poem's respective target woman. The excessive use of nature as symbols or comparison is a running theme in all of Shakespearian dialect. Comparatively, this is all that can be said.
             However, "Shall I compare" and "My mistress' eyes" can be better contrasted than compared. The first contrast is in the use of nature throughout the poems. Within "My mistress' eyes", Shakespeare spoke of all the great aspects of nature and how beautiful it appears, especially in contrast with humans. This sonnet does little more than belittle the woman in which he is discussing, making such remarks as "If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun" (3). This essentially means that if nature's snow is perfect white as he said it was, then this woman's skin is that of gray slush, imperfect and tainted. The name of the poem "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" is another example of this comparison to show that nature is far superior to anything this woman had to offer. The comparison to nature is also evident in "Shall I compare", but in a tone that more expressly shows admiratio...