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.
Sonnet 116 is a sonnet written by Shakespeare about love. It is not a piece of literacy about love like most others however ; the norm is to write about a lover, told by the speaker, however in sonnet 116, the speaker is explaining love in general, love as a concept. He explores the meaning of love and what affect external factors have on love, if any at all. It is very much about the nature of love. The sonnet is devised into three stanzas; each stanza has four lines ending in a rhyming word.
She loves him freely, without coercion; she loves him purely, without expectation of personal gain. She even loves him with an intensity of the suffering (passion line 9) resembling that of Christ on the cross, and she loves him in the way that she loves saints as a child. Moreover, she expects to continue to love him after death. Sonnet 116 • It is about him explaining that when love is true it can’t end. He goes on to compare love to an ever-standing point like and lighthouse, meaning it can’t be shifted, it can’t be knocked down and its built to stand despite the hardest of testing.
If you ask a person to describe love, chances are they are going to give you a very romantic, very sweet reply. Even the bible has a lovely, poetic description of love, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
Also, christian love is self-giving making it right to go out and help others instead of avoiding actions. Next principle is “love wills the neighbours good, whether we like him or not”. The love that fletcher is talking about is called, agape love. Agape love isnt sentimental or erotic but rather a desire to dog good for other people. Your neighbour is anybody, agape love shuld go out to anybody, not jst to those we like but to those we don’t like aswell.
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.
Sonnet 116 and Even Tho Sonnet 116 is about love, not between a particular couple, but as a concept. The poem explores what is meant by love, and says that, if it is true, love is one of life's constants and it doesn’t change with time or circumstance. Whereas Even Tho explores the sensual side of love and it also captures the idea of carnival. Even Tho says that you should have fun without being overcome or ‘devoured’ it is a slight contrast to Sonnet 116 as Nichols states that important to be individual whereas Sonnet 116 says we should stay together forever. 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.
Love is wanting to make another feel good. Throughout the history of mankind love has been defined as universal, mysterious and complex. This is why many poets throughout history and modern poets still choose to make love the topic of conversation in their poems because it’s a unique and mysterious feeling that can be interpreted in many various ways. The theme of love is discussed in the poems ‘Sonnet 130’ by William Shakespeare and ‘Anne Hathaway’ by Carol Ann Duffy. In ‘Sonnet 130’ Shakespeare describes his mistress’s eyes as ‘nothing like the sun’, this goes against the normal conventions of a traditional sonnet.
On the contrary, in Sonnet 43 the speaker’s (probably the poet) feelings are very passionate: her affection seems to have no limits. She is focused on the romantic/ideal love involving God and is in her own spiritual world. In Duffy’s poem, her feelings are hurt but she still loves the other person : “silver bullets of your kiss”(l.15). This metaphor contains an ambiguous mix of two lexical fields that oppose each other. “Bullets” reminds us that violence still remains from the fight and that the pain has not been forgotten.