Sonnet 116 uses repeated pairs of words, “love is not love”, “alters when alteration finds” suggesting it is to be like “couples” and to also further emphasize the theme of love in the sonnet. He also uses metaphors such as “looks on the tempest and is never shaken” and “is the stars to every wand’ring bark,” this is emphasizing that love is an essential part of the world by using metaphors based on natural elements. Sonnet 116 affects the reader as it is saying that if the love was true, whatever the circumstance, it would not change and is everlasting. This sonnet is very much linked in with Hero and Claudio’s relationship. Their relationship is very traditional and conventional like the sonnet.
For instance beauty fading with time and also trust fading. A large variety of images fill the mind in each and every one of Shakespeares sonnets, but images cannot appear without the words that make them out to be. The vocabulary and diction that Shakespeare uses in both sonnets are especially effective in describing love, from star to every wandering bark to age in love, loves not to have years told, the words tell a different story about a common topic of love. Sonnet 116 does a softer, more delicate take on love whereas in Sonnet 138, the poem uses euphemisms, namely false- speaking tongue and And in our faults by lies we flattered be. Certainly not portraying love in its finest moment, neither is it a flagrant insult on the emotion.
The image of Benedick "wast[ing] inwardly" is used playfully as the audience know it isn't true. Perhaps Shakespeare has include this image of a lovesick Benedick to further satirise the type of love so meaningfully presented in Petrarchan poetry. This contrasts sharply with the nature of Romeo and Juliet's declaration of love. Like Juliet, Beatrice also takes charge of the relationship once Benedick has sworn his love for her. However, unlike Romeo, Benedick swears his love on his hand, proving perhaps that he will prove his love through his actions, not just words.
He wrote as well that a price cannot be put upon love; “whose worth’s unknown”. This can have a positive effect on people’s comprehension at the point Shakespeare is trying to make, as everything these days has a price, so something that is priceless should be something amazing and sought after. To His Coy Mistress explains love in a completely different way. The subject of the poem is a man trying to get his mistress to sleep with him and he is using metaphors about love and time to try and convince her to ‘seize the day’. The fact that it is a man telling a woman that they love each other and
Thus there appears to be a darker side ( reinforced by the lack of a rigid metre) such as by referring to love as a ‘beggar’. The only time it is strictly kept to is in the 2nd stanza. Here the love Duffy talks about is seemingly perfect and romantic, such as when she describes the way she sees him as “like treasure on the ground”. The rhythm reflects this idea of putting a loved on a pedestal, a common convention of the sonnet form, and therefore the perfection of the relationship. Within ‘The Manhunt’ the structure and form also represent the type of love presented in the poem.
Sonnet 116 uses repeated pairs of words: "love is not love", "alters when it alteration finds" and "remover to remove" this is a mini parallel structure. This mirroring of words is also suggestive of a loving couple, as they come in twos. As well as pairs of words, there are some negatives and opposites used to emphasise the qualities of love by saying what it isn’t. Even Tho also uses repeated words, ‘brace-up’ ‘hug-up’ ‘sweet one another up’ but for a different effect, Nichols is showing; through rhythm and rhyme, how physical the relationship is. The structure is both poems is quite different, Sonnet 116 is the typical Shakespearean Sonnet consisting of 14 lines divided into three stanzas of four lines each and a final couplet (two lines.)
Divorces were unknown; it was meant lo live forever with the one person you love. “Love at first sight”, was commonly the tradition for an engagement. In reality this might not be called a happy love story, as modern society has now new rules. Even though it’s true, people perceive love different as time pass, even in Shakespeare times, the difference was felt. Then there would be a close relationship between, this “rules of marriage” and comedy, in the play.
Philip Larkin and Dannie Abse have very different and contrasting attitudes to relationships. On the whole, Larkin presents the concepts of love and marriage as very superficial and meaningless, whereas Abse appears to be less such nihilistic and more open and positive about such topics. Throughout Wild Oats, Philip Larkin uses various literary techniques, such as imagery, structure and symbolism to convey certain aspects of love and the passing of time. Larkin's poetry often relates to the social and cultural views upon love and marriage in his time. In Wild Oats It explains that a person, over the course of time, comes to realise that his greatest desires of love, are unattainable, and second best things will have to suffice.
Benefits is defined as” something that is advantageous or good; an advantage” This is how we usually think of love. We do not think of love as a cost, which is “the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything.” Different forms of love are experienced in Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet feel romantic love for each other. Juliet, unaware that Romeo is underneath her balcony, says “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” Juliet is asking Romeo to deny his family to love her.
If this ‘true love’ were as independent as it claims, the two lovers would be satisfied with each other’s company and never become entangled with anyone else. In the comedies of Shakespeare, the opposite happens. True love constantly runs into trouble. This is what Lysander explains to his beloved Hermia at the beginning of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth, The lovers do not feel responsible for the misfortunes of true love.