Question

read shakespeares \sonnet 130.\ my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun; coral is far more red, than her lips red: if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. i have seen roses damaskd, red and white, 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. i love to hear her speak, yet well i know that music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go,— 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. what evidence supports an idea of truth embedded within the satire of sonnet 130? o \my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun\ o \if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.\ o \i have seen roses damaskd, red and white\ o \and yet by heaven, i think my love as rare\

Explanation:

The sonnet uses satire to subvert traditional love - sonnet tropes. The final line "And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare" reveals the truth that the speaker's love is genuine despite his mistress not fitting the idealized beauty standards. The other lines are part of the satire, comparing his mistress unfavorably to ideal beauty.

Answer:

D. "And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare"