Sonnet 130 ~ ’My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun’ by William Shakespeare

April 23rd 2014 marks the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth. ’My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing Like The Sun’ read by David Shaw-Parker Shakespeare is expressing the kind of love that has nothing to do with the beloved’s looks. He satirises the usual way of expressing love for a woman -- praising her lips and her hair, the way she walks, and all the things that a young man may rave about when he thinks about his beloved. What he does is invert those things, assert that his beloved is ugly, ungai