Sonnet 116

Sonnet 116

1. Title shows Semantic field of nature and a journey

2. "True minds" suggests an unbreakable bond

   • Genuine/Truly

3. "Love is not love" shows accept it for what it is, the same way you'd treat someone who you love.

4. "Alteration finds" makes a constant/ forever feeling.

   • "ever-fixed mark," this caesura shows an emotional attachment
     • "is never shaken" is never changing, constant

5. "It is the star to every wand'ring bark"- metaphoric for it is the guide to all who are lost.

   • you will find your way when in love.
     • the light in the dark.

6. "Love's not time's fool" suggest that time fits itself to you, personifying time

7. "rosy lips and cheeks" shows fool's makeup, illusions. Love isn't a fool can't be tainted by makeup.

   • "sickle's compass come" knife/unknown/ warped/ambiguous.

8. "brief hours and weeks"- this shows how short life is, but yet love will not falter .

9. "edge of doom" she (love) goes to hell and back

10. "writ" is a legal argument.