Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130." What is the central idea of the first quatrain?
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red, than her lips red:
• My mistress is unattractive.
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
O My mistress is beautiful.
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
• My mistress has a natural beauty.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
• My mistress is not as beautiful as nature.
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.
Ilove to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
grant a I never saw a goddess go,-
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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.