There is a slight sense of sarcasm in sonnet 130. It is almost a parody of the other love poems and sonnets at the time, which always compared women to the loveliest things and harped on their beauty. Shakespeare’s sonnet 130 uses simile, saying “My mistresses eyes are nothing like the sun” and metaphor by saying “black wires grow on her head”. To me, saying that a woman is not at all beautiful is a very odd and offensive way to tell her that you love her, but it gets the point across. All in all, I guess the theme of this sonnet is that Shakespeare is telling everyone that he knows this woman is not the prettiest person out there, but he love her no matter what. It is even possible that he wasn’t meaning to be unkind while describing the woman, he was just trying to make a point about the sonnets of the time by mocking them.
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