28+ My Mistress Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun Poem Background. Coral is far more red than her lips' red In the breath that from my mistress reeks.
Coral is far more red than her lips' red sonnet 130 is clearly a parody of the conventional love sonnet, made popular by petrarch and, in particular, made popular in england by sidney's use of the petrarchan form in his epic poem astrophel and stella.
Your mistress breath smells like perfume? If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I love to hear her speak, yet well i know, that music hath a far more pleasing sound: In the beginning, the mistress' eyes are being compared to the sun suggesting that her eyes are not light or lustrous but dull and homely.