My Mistress' Eyes

     Hold on, what?! William Shakespeare just wrote an entire poem, My Mistress' Eyes, bashing his mistress. However, the smooth talker he is manages to do it in a slightly more polite way. He eloquently says her lips are dill, he breath smells bad, her voice is annoying, and many other awful things. It is the way in which he says these things that makes the reader question what he really is saying, that he really is being rude. I honestly thought this poem was kind of funny, maybe just because I read it after that disgusting Barbie Doll poem. The way shakespeare says her voice is annoying is so elegant, though. "I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound" (Shakespeare, 885). I mean it is sweet that he still enjoys listening, but I feel like he would rather listen to music. I don't know, maybe thats just me. Props to Shakespeare for still liking the girl.