Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare Analysis
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- Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
- Overall message
- Definition of true love
- Use positive and negative to define what he means
- If someone is altered in some way, true love will continue
- When a pair finds that they are not as in love as they thought, they are not true to their true love
- The worth of love is not fully appreciated
- People don't understand it until they are in love
- Time has power over love even though true love is not owned by time, it does have an affect on it
- Love is outside time's reach
- Definition of true love
- Rhythm
- Iambicpentameter
- Heartbeat
- Iambicpentameter
- Language
- Repetition
- 'alter/alteration'
- 'remover/remove'
- Not perfect
- 'alter/alteration'
- Love is not perfect
- Not perfect
- Personification
- 'Love's not Time's fool'
- Time is more powerful than love
- People change and die
- Love is not owned by time
- Love is not time's servant
- Fool = Someone owned by someone higher in rank
- To entertain
- Love is not owned by time
- Love is not time's servant
- Time is more powerful than love
- 'Love's not Time's fool'
- Last 2 lines
- Challenging reader to prove him wrong
- Strong
- Short
- Clear
- Everything he has written about love is wron
- Challenging reader to prove him wrong
- Repetition
- Imagery
- Sea imagery
- Love is like light over the sea
- Metaphors
- 'The marriage of true minds'
- Not hearts
- Beyond usual love
- More than the ordinary
- Beyond usual love
- Not hearts
- 'impediments'
- Comes from marriage
- 'O, no!'
- Dramatic
- 'it is an ever-fixèd mark'
- Defines what love is
- Position/ lighthouse
- Ever-fixed lighthouse
- Permanent
- Hopeful
- Good
- Ever-fixed lighthouse
- 'looks on tempests'
- Tempests = Storms
- Looks on = Calm
- Not panic
- What love is
- Not panic
- 'Bark'
- Small ship
- 'Star'
- North star
- Ships navigate by
- North star
- 'Edge'
- Pit?
- 'Doom'
- Death
- The affect of time
- True love lasts forever
- The affect of time
- Death
- 'The marriage of true minds'
- Sea imagery
- Development of poem
- First is factual, calm like a reasoned argument
- Second is metorphorical
- Defiant at end
- It becomes more personal as he goes through the poem
- He starts with 'let me not spoil the party'
- Overall message
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