Shakespeare's Sonnets

Sonnet 130

The description of the narrator’s love is much different from the “Shall I Compare Thee. . ..”
How are the descriptions different? What is the narrator saying about his love in this poem?

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The speaker describes various body parts of his lover to different elements of the natural world.: lips, for example, are compared to coral and breasts are compared to snow. The narrator says that although his mistress is not a goddess, she is real and walks on the earth. That makes her special.

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