Shakespeare

This poem is quite comical. In this poem, Shakespeare is comparing his mistress to different things like the sun, coral, roses, etc. and saying that she is not as close to as beautiful as those things. He is essentially comparing her to beautiful things in the world and saying that she is close to neither; he is not working in her favor. For example, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun." The sun is a bright, big, beautiful thing in the sky, but his mistress' eyes are nothing close to that. This sonnet is comical because he doesn't compliment her in any way, but brings her down in every way.