read shakespeares \sonnet 130.\ my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun; coral is far more red, than her…

read shakespeares \sonnet 130.\ my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun; coral is far more red, than her lips red: if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. i have seen roses damaskd, red and white, but no such roses see i in her cheeks; and in some perfumes is there more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. i love to hear her speak, yet well i know that music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go,— my mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: and yet by heaven, i think my love as rare, as any she belied with false compare. what is the central idea of the second quatrain? the speaker gives his mistress roses and perfume. the speakers mistress is like a rose—beautiful and fragrant. his mistresss cheeks are not pink, and her breath is not sweet. roses do not look and smell as sweet as the speakers mistress.

read shakespeares \sonnet 130.\ my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun; coral is far more red, than her lips red: if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. i have seen roses damaskd, red and white, but no such roses see i in her cheeks; and in some perfumes is there more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. i love to hear her speak, yet well i know that music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go,— my mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: and yet by heaven, i think my love as rare, as any she belied with false compare. what is the central idea of the second quatrain? the speaker gives his mistress roses and perfume. the speakers mistress is like a rose—beautiful and fragrant. his mistresss cheeks are not pink, and her breath is not sweet. roses do not look and smell as sweet as the speakers mistress.

Answer

Brief Explanations:

The second quatrain ("I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.") compares the mistress's cheeks to roses and her breath to perfume, stating her cheeks are not pink - like roses and her breath is not sweet - like perfume.

Answer:

His mistress's cheeks are not pink, and her breath is not sweet.