Poetry is often very confusing to me. I don’t know, it has always frustrated me how poetry can be interpreted in so many different ways. All poetry is very unique though and I guess that the intrigues me. A writer that I have always enjoyed is Shakespeare. Throughout high school I found it difficult to completely grasp his meanings, but as I grew as a reader and was more familiar with the form of English his words really began to really jump out at me. Shakespeare wrote many poems that are in the form of a sonnet. In Shakespeare’s Sonnet CXXX I feel that a true sense of Shakespeare’s words and personality are evident.
In Sonnet CXXX Shakespeare speaks about his mistress in a generally unflattering way. To a literal reader it may seem that Shakespeare is completely tearing down this women although this is generally not the case. In this writing Shakespeare is basically mocking how all poems say the same things about a women. The point of this sonnet is that women must not be compared to so many “beautiful” objects to be considered a beautiful lover. The impression that Shakespeare seems to be a somewhat cynical and humorous person really comes out in his writings.
Although I think that I understand the actual meaning of this poem, to me it takes on another meaning. In my interpretation I feel that this sonnet should represent the idea that each and every person considers different things to be beautiful. When dealing with love it seems as if there are people out there made for each other and therefore Shakespeare’s mockery of these traditional love comparisons emphasize personal love. Shakespeare is a very expressive writer and it is easy very easy for me to be interested in his work.