Unexpected Irony

In the poem "My mistress' eyes", the poem is full of irony throughout the poem, and the big "bang!" part of the irony really comes out at the end. Usually when men describe the woman they love, they use hyperboles and go on to say very cheesy things. They may compare the girl to something that is far more amazing and beautiful than the girl, but they make the comparison anyway and "lie" about it. However, the speaker in this poem does quite the opposite. Instead, he goes on to describe how many other things in the world are much more beautiful than her. This is ironic becuase men usually don't say things like this to girls, the reader expects him to say nice things like how her eyes are like the sun. But throughout the poem he goes on to make these "negative" comparisons. However, the big irony comes to play at the end of the poem. He goes on to say how he loves her and she is as beautiful as all the other girls who are lied to (or exaggerated to). The reader would expect the speaker to not love this woman and probably even think she was ugly in the narrator's eyes. But instead, she is supposedly beautiful and throughout the whole poem, he was just mocking those who do exaggerate to their women.