mself also establishes a visual image of his women. Shakespeare description of a woman is the opposite of Daniel. Shakespeare's uses metaphors that conjure images of a very unappealing woman. Shakespeare uses the fact that she is unappealing to express his love for her. This is ironic because Shakespeare is saying that his love is as true as all the other conventional poems that fail in their comparisons. This is Shakespeare's way of explaining that true love comes from inside a person. Shakespeare says the opposite of Daniel and by no means wants to put a false identity on his mistress. Shakespeare emphasizes how simple his lady is. Shakespeare speaks of this simplicity when he says, " I grant I never saw a goddess go." In this line Shakespeare seems to be taking his lady off the pedestal that Daniel puts his mistress on. This vision of a mistress being a goddess almost seems to amuse Shakespeare. Shakespeare knows that a man cannot truly love an idea. Though that man may want to, he is faking his love and this can not be the true love that he has for his woman. The couplets of both writers vary greatly also. Daniel writes of a lady that he could possibly come into brief contact with. Daniel may have not even have spoke to her, but the brief contact with her was enough to inspire an image of someone so perfect that it could only be true love. Daniel also suggests that this woman he writes about is unattainable and this saddens him. This brief contact must have impressed him so much that he saw everything he ever wanted in a woman, but he left it as an idea, or a vision. In the ending couplet he speaks of this when he says, " Oh had she not been fair and thus unkind, My Muse had slept and none had known my mind." Daniel is thanking this woman for giving him the inspiration to write this poem. He is saddened to not be able to attain her but he knows that if he were to have more than simply brief contact with her it wil...
