Sonnet 116 Essay, Research Paper

1- Let me not to the marriage of true minds 2- Admit impediments; Love is not

love 3- Which alters when alterations find 4- Or bends with remover to remove 5-

Oh, no, it is an ever-fixed mark, 6- That looks on tempests and is never shaken

7- It is a star to every wandering bark, 8- Whose worth’s unknown although his

height be taken 9- Love’s not Time’s fool though rosy lips and cheeks 10- Within

his bending sickless compass come 11- Love alters not with his brief hours and

weeks, 12- But bars it out even to the edge of Doom 13- If this be error, and

upon me proved, 14- I never writ, nor man ever loved. – I chose this sonnet

because it is very beautiful and shows the immortality of love and in the way

that it comes through struggles just as good as it first went in, – Lines 1-4:

This is saying that if love changes or is removed if it is challenged it is not

love; perhaps it is infatuation. – Lines 5-8: Love is something that is always

there taken away by anything; it is the thing that everybody looks for in life,

if it seems to be gone, love is there more than it originally was although it

may not seem like it. – Lines 9-12: The personification of love and time: Love

cannot change throughout the course of Time and Time holds no restraints against

Love. Time cannot grasp hold of Love at all and bring it down even when it seems

that Love will be snuffed out. – Lines 13-14: If the above statements are wrong

and proved to me, then I have never written ever before and there has been no

love in the world ever before.