My Mistress' Eyes~#8

This poem has a satirical and realistic tone. The speaker is mocking other poets who shower their lovers with metaphorical phrases about their beauty. He is not calling his lover ugly in the poem, but praising her in a realistic way. The speaker tells her that her eyes "are nothing like the sun;" he is not saying that she's ugly. No one's eyes are like the sun; therefore, her eyes could not possibly be like the sun. The speaker tells his lover that she is not all those things(unrealistic metaphors), but she is as beautiful and as rare as all those women. He just isn't going to lie to her. The speaker's tone gives the poem a much greater meaning that it may seem on the surface.