True love in Shakespeare's Sonnet 116
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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 wandering 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 a compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the adge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Let me not marriage of true minds
'Let me not the marriage of true minds' is one of the famous Sonnet of Shakespeare.When Shakespeare fall in love with dark lady, but she did not give him much response.Ttherefore, requested his handsome young petron 'Lord William Herbert' to tell lady about his love for her. But when William Herbert recomended the case to the lady, she fell in love with lord William Herbert. William Herbert also begin to love her. The result was that W.H and dark lady were estranged from Shakespeare. Thus, the sonnet is indirectly addressed either to Lord William Herbert or the dark lady.
Central Idea of Sonnet 116
Shakespeare says that difficulties do not come in the way of true lovers. True love is not affected by alternations and changes in external life. Howsoever, one maystry, but true love cannot be removed. It is like the pole star in the sky which is always fixed on its place. True love is not destroyed by time. To sincere lover, it is a true guide in the life. Althought time decays beauty of the man but true love never alters it nature with the passing of hours, days, weeks, and years etc. If a lover fears a worldly enemy. it is sure his or her love is not true.
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