First, the two poems share the same theme; however, they are portrayed differently. The theme of both poems is love, but this is easily seen in Sonnet 18. Sonnet 18 says, “Thou art more lovely and more temperate,” through this Shakespeare is saying that his love is more beautiful than any summer day. In this poem, …show more content…
Sonnet 130 uses beautiful imagery, but instead of being compared to these images, the muse is being contrasted from the images. Every time Shakespeare uses an image of something blissful, he tells how his lover could not compare to it. For example, Shakespeare speaks of perfumes and how marvelous they smell, and then he speaks of his muse’s breath and how repulsive is smells in comparison. The contrasting is carried throughout nearly the whole poem except for the final two lines. In the final two lines, he says how he oddly loves her, and how any woman would be considered “ugly” by using such radical comparisons. So, this poem crudely compares his muse, and concludes with how he loves her despite her