Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Sonnet 116
- It's about how constant true love is
- it cant be shaken
- if their love is real love it stays
more powerful than ever
- doesn't change when
circumstances change
- Form
- sonnet
- 3 quatrains with rhyming couplet at end
- regular rhyme scheme gives poem
sense of order&completeness
- Structure
- quatrains all discuss the same idea of love
being unchanging in slightly different ways and using different imagery
- final couplet guarantee he's telling truth
- 'remover to remove' 'alters
when it alteration'
- near repetition-love is constant, it wont change the
way appearances do
- Language about sailing
- true love shown to be reliable-guides us in a uncertain
and stormy world
- 'ever-fixed mark' 'star'
- metaphor compares love to Pole star which stays in
the same place in sky & helps sailors to navigate
- 'bark, whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken'
- stars height can be mathmatically measured, but its value to the
ship it guides is immeasurable
- can't measure actual value of love
- Language about time and ageing
- when we get older we look different, not as attractive- true love isn't tricked by
effects of time
- love isnt at mercy of time
- 'time's fool'
- personification- makes the battle
between time and love dramatic
- 'banding sickles compass'
- it's within times power to take away youth and beauty
- love will triumph over death
- 'brief hours and weeks....edge of doom'
- any measue of time is short for love because love love
will keep going to the end of time
- 'rose lips and cheeks'
- even if youths beauty fades love will still exist
- 'let me not to the marriage of true minds admit
impediments; love is not love ....alteration finds'
- true love does not change when faced with difficult or unexpected circumstances
- believes that nothing can stop true love from lasting
- 'impediments'
- word used in traditional marriage services- reminds us of weddings
- 'marriae'
- coming together
- 'if this be error and upon me proved, i never writ, nor no man ever loved'
- poet guarentees us that everything he is saying is true
- if he is wrong then i never wrote anything
and no one has ever been in love
- Feelings & Attitudes
- devotion
- voice in poem is declaring a love that will not change
- constancy
- sees love as fixed and eternal- wont change even when object of love
changes
- True love
- it's not a shallow, superficial love which based on what the loved one looks like