Despite the fact that "Sonnet 130" and "To my dear and loving husband" were written from completely different perspectives, both William Shakespeare and Anne Bradstreet use poetic devices to stress the magnitude of their love. While Bradstreet takes the more traditional route to write about the love she has for her husband, Shakespeare uses humor and exaggeration to point out his mistresses flaws and poke fun of the extremes love poems use. While it may seem like a negative poem, he makes sure to end it with "and yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare" (Shakespeare, 976). Essentially he's letting readers know that while he's not blind to her flaws, his love is still as undeniable as it would be if he chose
