Coral is much redder than her lips;
If Xue is white, her breasts are black and brown.
If the hair is made of wire, the wire on her head is dancing.
I have seen red and white roses, they are like veils;
But she couldn't find such roses on her cheeks;
There are many perfumes that are very attractive.
That's not the tone of my hostess.
I like listening to her, but I know it very well.
Music is far more pleasant than her voice;
I admit I've never seen a goddess walk,
My hostess walked with her feet on the ground:
But, I swear to God, honey.
Better than any beautiful woman known as a fairy.
(translated by Liang)
Make an appreciative comment
130 in Shakespeare's sonnets "My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun" is dedicated to "Lady Dark". The main feature of the poem is to satirize some popular empty and grandiose metaphors, deny the empty metaphors that may exist in the general sense, and sincerely praise a living, ordinary and real woman.
In this poem, from the first sentence, the poet denies the adjectives and modifiers used by other poets to describe women one by one, thinking that the lover's eyes are not sunshine, the lover's lips are not coral, the lover's breasts are not as white as snow, the lover's cheeks are not as red as roses, the lover's breath is not as fragrant as perfume, and the lover's words are not as beautiful as music. However, this superficial denial contains actual praise. What the poet praises here is the beauty of the real "dark girl", not the "goddess" shaped by other poets. This kind of praise also strongly expresses humanistic thought and shows people's pride in God. In particular, the poem "My Little Three Walks Down-to-Earth" reveals sincere pride and praise.
From an artistic point of view, in this poem, Shakespeare can be said to have opened up a new world of realistic artistic techniques. The attitude towards love is realistic, and the artistic technique adopted is "down-to-earth" realism. There is no romantic affectation, let alone exaggeration. And the last sentence, "But, I swear to heaven, my lover is better than any beautiful woman known as a fairy", emphasizes the unique value and emotional strength of the ordinary beauty of reality, and embodies the spirit of humanism and the heroic spirit of human nature over divinity.
(Wu Di)