9. Sonnet 130 is filled with negative images of his mistress. How does he describe her? What is the purpose of these negative images?

"My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground." Here the poet explicitly states that his mistress is not a goddess.

She is also not as beautiful as things found in nature, another typical source of inspiration for the average sonneteer: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; / Coral is far more red than her lips' red."

The sonnet is generally considered a humorous parody of the typical love sonnet.