Dante's "Complements" is about being built up by someone's love and then let down by it. The speaker remembers a partner who told them every day that they were beautiful: their eyes, their face, their smile, their body. The speaker pushes back at first, saying their eyes are "just brown" and their face is "dull." Even so, the compliments slowly work. The speaker admits they don't like their body, yet this person made them feel "like a goddess."
The mood begins warm and a little shy. The line about a "cheesy" compliment feeling like "a sugary topping" shows the speaker half-embarrassed and truly happy. Then the last line changes everything. "Until you crushed me down" is blunt, and it comes after a long run of gentle lines. The poem doesn't say how the partner did this, which makes the ending feel sudden and painful. What's left is a sense of loss: the confidence was real, but it depended on someone who took it away.