I think It's a very powerful attack on the contemporary
            poets who praised woman's beauty too much. So Shekespeare's intention might have been to
            break the conventional ideas.
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Love looks not with the eyes but with the
            mind
-William
            Shakespeare-
Shekespeare
            doesn't cling to the concept of ideal love, so i think here he might have needed to mock
            at the conventional praise of women by the contempoarary
            poets.
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Sonnet 130 satirizes the concept of
            ideal beauty that was a convention of literature and art in general during the
            Elizabethan era. Influences originating with the poetry of ancient Greece and
            Rome had established a tradition of this, which continued in Europe's customs
            of             href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtly_love">courtly love and in
            courtly poetry, and the work of poets such as             href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrarch">Petrarch. It was customary to
            praise the beauty of the object of one's affections with comparisons to beautiful things
            found in nature and heaven, such as stars in the night sky, the golden light of the
            rising sun, or red roses.            href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonnet_130#cite_note-1">[1] The images
            conjured by Shakespeare were common ones that would have been well-recognized by a
            reader or listener of this sonnet.
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