Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare - My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun

Sonnet 130 is one of my Shakespearean top ten. You&find it, and nine other sonnets, in my sleep tool: 10 Sonnet Sleep. Why 10 Shakespearean sonnets? Well, when my children were really little, and I was teaching them how to go to sleep, I recited sonnets as the last part of their sleep preparation. I joked with my partner that it was a &Sonnet Sleep&if it was a longer night, but I never had to recite more than 10 Sonnets before they were ready to sleep in their beds. Since those long evenings, I’ve found that combining 10 sonnets with a sleep induction, and meditative music, results in a powerful and highly effective soporific tool that I’m pleased to share with you. Check out my other favourite sonnet videos - I had fun recording them, and creating the visuals. All ten are dedicated to the inimitable Sir Patrick Stewart - @sirpatstew - whose pronunciation helped me to navigate the foibles of Shakespearean English! Sonnet 130 synopsis: This sonnet plays with poetic conventions in which, for example, the mistress’s eyes are compared with the sun, her lips with coral, and her cheeks with roses. His mistress, says the poet, is nothing like this conventional image, but is as lovely as any woman. 130 My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some...