And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
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As any she belied with false compare!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: You've read the rest of the sonnet, right!? You know how Shakespeare makes fun of the extravagant things that poets commonly say in love poems!. His beloved, he says, wouldn't fit any of those over-the-top poetic descriptions, any of those false comparisons!. Her voice isn't like music, her breath isn't like fine perfume, she walks on the ground like a mere mortal instead of floating through the air like a goddess!. To say those overblown things about a woman is to belie her, that is, to misrepresent her, to lie about her!. Then the final couplet tells the truth about the woman this poet loves: He sees her in all her mortal imperfection, yet he considers her every bit as rare and lovely as if she really did have all those goddess-like attributes!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Context is everything!. The first 12 lines of this poem show that his mistress is not a poetical ideal: her eyes aren't like the sun, her lips aren't like coral, her skin isn't like snow, her cheeks aren't like roses, her breath isn't like perfume, her voice isn't like music, and her walk isn't like a goddess's!. (Good goddess, whose is!?) Now, the poet knows that he is expected to tell pretty poetical lies about his mistress!. But he thinks that his lover is just as extraordinary ("rare") as any woman ("she") dressed up with lies ("belied") like fake poetical similies and metaphors ("false compare")!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I think it means that he believes that his love is rare, but no women think so!. But that's just my personal interpretation of it!. Poetry means different things to different people, and everyone interprets things differently!. -A!.J!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It means you should always, brush your teeth and swim with your chickens, because life is so short and fat!. (but most people would say it meant that the guy loved her and thought they were meant to be, but the girl did not)Www@QuestionHome@Com He's saying that basically this girl is nothing special, she's just like any other girl, yet he loves her all the same, and he guarantees that no one has ever loved her as he has!. Www@QuestionHome@Com His love is rarer than any other man that she tries to compare it with!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com its hard to find his true love!. and can not compare to heaven!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |