1. In this sonnet, the speaker describes many beautiful things, such as, the sun, red corals, white snow, damasked roses, perfumes and music. When imagining these things it makes me feel very positive about something that he is describing, and I cannot help it, but to imagine a very beautiful mistress. As the speaker keeps describing all of the beautiful objects, he goes on and uses all these things to compare his mistress to what she is not, she is the total opposite and far from all of these thing.
2. In my opinion the speaker is a man who does not care very much for any type of attachment to her physical features and has a lust type of love for this woman. The way I come to this conclusions is, for the reason that the speaker compares his mistress to all the beautiful things she is not. As well for the reason that he states in line (11) “I grant I never saw a goddess go” meaning that if she was one like a goddess, he would be much hurt to see her leave. Another example is in line (10) he states, “That music hath a far more pleasing sound” compared to her voice. It almost seams that he enjoys her company but would much rather not hear her speak, and would much rather listen to the sound of music instead of her voice. I can be misinterpreting the message that the speaker is trying to create, but as I keep reading the sonnet over, I can not help but to feel that the speaker only is proud to have a mistress even if he is not completely in-love with all her attributes
3. I believe that in the sonnet “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the Sun” and “Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?” are both poetry and love by the use of words and comparisons made. In “Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?” it looks to me that the speaker is lost in love, and no matter what happens, his love will never come to an end even if time keeps changing. As he states in line (8-9)