"Sonnet 130" is a sonnet by William Shakespeare that compares the speaker's lover to a number of other beauties. This comparison is never in favor of the speaker's lover. Her eyes are "nothing like the sun," and her lips are less red than coral. Compared to white snow, her breasts are dun-colored, and her hairs are like black wires on her head. This poem can be considered a parody because it pokes fun at the speaker's lover. Instead of describing the woman's beauty, Shakespeare makes fun of her, and mentions other things that are more "beautiful" than she is. In these descriptions, the tone of the sonnet is formed. The tone of the first twelve lines is an insulting one. It begins to seem as if the speaker's lover is not anything special and is a below average woman. During the final two lines, however, the tone changes from insult to praise. The speaker's true feelings for the woman are revealed. He declares that his love is indeed rare and valuable, along with the point that he does not need to make up false comparisons to describe his love's beauty. This change of tone from ridicule to praise incorporates the two elements of opposition in the sonnet. The first contradiction was the ridicule of the mistress, and the other contradiction was praising the mistress to be unique at the end of the sonnet.
             The theme of this poem was that the looks of a person do not matter if someone is truly in love. The small obstacles such as looks seem trivial when compared to how someone is on the inside. Shakespeare wrote the sonnet so that the speaker could use natural imagery to express his love.
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