Directions:  1. Read and re-read the poem. 

2. Annotate the poem 

a. Identify figurative language 

b. Translate lines you’re struggling with 

c. Look up any difficult words and write their definitions in 

3. Answer the Poem Analysis questions 

Sonnet 130 – William Shakespeare 

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 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.

 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. 

NOW ANALYZE THE POEM BELOW:

Poem Analysis 

Literal Meaning 

After you read the poem, 

What does the literal meaning seem to be? 

What is happening in the poem? 

Answer these 2 questions in complete sentences

Imagery 

Pick out three uses of sensory details/imagery and 

Write them below (this will most likely be a phrase or line from the poem), then 

Explain what the poet is trying to convey with this image. 

Write answers in complete sentences

1. IMAGE: 

MEANING:

2. IMAGE: 

MEANING:

3. IMAGE: 

MEANING:

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