How can we compare and constrast Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare and "Delight in disorder" by Robert Herrick?

These are two excellent poems to compare and contrast, and
both in a way address the theme of appearance vs. reality. Sonnet 130 is a satirical
attack on the fashionable, exaggerated metaphors that were very popular at the time that
describes the women they loved as if they were idealised goddesses who were perfect in
every way. These conceits had become very tiresome and outmoded by the time Shakespeare
wrote this sonnet. Thus Shakespeare's sonnet sets out to prove that his "mistress" is
all too mortal by comparing her unfavourably to these
conceits:

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.

Again and again
Shakespeare stresses the human characteristics of his mistress. She is not some kind of
divine demi-god gracing earth, but a normal human being, with bad breath and normal eyes
that do not resemble the sun. However, in spite of her normal beauty, Shakespeare still
loves her just as much, if not more, because of her normal
appearance:

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And yet, by Heaven, I think my love as
rare

As any she belied with false
compare.

Shakespeare's love
for this woman is just as fervent, if not more so, because he has an accurate impression
of her.

In "Delight in disorder," the speaker takes great
joy in "the wild civility" of his mistress. Although it is obvious that her appearance
is far from perfect, as the references to "the tempestuous petticoat" and the "sweet
disorder" in her dress makes clear, yet the poem ends, just like Sonnet 130, with an
affirmation of the speaker's love for this woman in spite of her
appearance:

Do
more bewitch me than when art

Is too precise in every
part.

Both poems stress that
reality is far more attractive and alluring than perfection, and suggest that the love
that the speakers have for their mistresses is actually purer and better because of the
very real impression and image they have of their mistresses.