Argumentative text on Sonnet 20 Shakespeare

A woman’s face with nature’s own hand painted

Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion;

A woman’s gentle heart, but not acquainted

With shifting change as is false women’s fashion;

An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,

Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;

A man in hue, all hues in his controlling,

Which steals men’s eyes and women’s souls amazeth.

And for a woman wert thou first created,

Till nature as she wrought thee fell a-doting,

And by addition me of thee defeated

By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.

      But since she pricked thee out for women's pleasure,

      Mine be thy love and thy love’s use their  treasure.

Volto di donna, dalla mano stessa di Natura dipinto, 
hai tu, Signore-Signora della mia passione; 
cuore gentile di donna, ma non avvezzo 
alla volubile incostanza che delle false donne è l'uso; 
occhio più splendente del loro, meno falso nel volgersi, 
che indora l'oggetto su cui si fissa; 
uomo nella forma che domina ogni forma, 
e gli occhi degli uomini rapisce e l'anima stupisce delle donne. 
E come donna dapprima tu fosti creato, 
finché, nel plasmarti, la Natura si perse d'amore, 
e, con l'aggiunta, privò me di te, 
aggiungendo una cosa che al mio scopo è nulla. 
Ma poiché ti eresse per il piacere delle donne, 
mio sia il tuo amore e loro tesoro il suo uso. 

The purpose of the present text is to analyse Shakespeare’s sonnet 20. Considering the title it seems like this poem is going to tell the description of a lady, that probably is so perfect that the nature could have created her. The layout is the usual Elizabethan sonnet and has an alternate rhyme. In the first quatrain the poet says that the woman’s face seems like painted by nature’s hand, she has his passion, she has a gentle heart and is different from false women. The second quatrain tells that this woman has brighter eyes than false women and attracts men’s eyes and astounds women’s souls. The third quatrain tells that when the nature was creating her it fell in love with Love, it divided the poet and the woman and gave her another thing. Finally the last rhyming couplet tells that the woman was created for the women’s pleasure. This poem is strange because the nature created the woman for women’s pleasure, when generally the woman attracts men. In my opinion this poem is nice and describes a really beautiful woman, but the thing that I can’t really understand is why she was created for women’s pleasure.