What is the meaning of Sonnet 116
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William Shakespeare and A Summary of Sonnet 116....
Sonnet 116 is one of William Shakespeare's most well known and features the opening line that is all too quotable - Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediments. It goes on to declare that true love is no fool of time, it never alters.
It has the traditional 14 lines, mostly full rhyme, and iambic pentameter as a basic metre (meter in USA).
There are some lines that do not follow the strict iambic pentameter beat - you can read about them below.
Note the turn in the final couplet (last two lines), where the poet sums up the previous twelve lines.
Shakespeare's 154 sonnets were first published as an entity in 1609 and focus on the nature of love, in relationships and in relation to time.
The first seventeen are addressed to a young man, the rest to a woman known as the 'Dark Lady', but there is no historical evidence to suggest that such people ever existed in Shakespeare's life.
The sonnets form a unique outpouring of poetic expression devoted to the machinations of mind and heart. They encompass a vast range of emotion and use all manner of device to explore what it means to love and be loved.
Sonnet 116 sets out to define true love by firstly telling the reader what love is not. It then continues on to the end couplet, the speaker (the poet) declaring that if what he has proposed is false, his writing is futile and no man has ever experienced love.
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
Analysis of Sonnet 116
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Answer:
love is the meaning
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