Sonnet 116
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- Created on: 21-11-16 12:50
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- Sonnet 116
- "Love is not love"
- Repetition builds up image of the love being solid.
- "Alters when it alteration findes"
- True love; accept one another for what they are.
- Change is fatal - mirrors love - Ying and Yang.
- "Lookes on tempests"
- Extreme hyperbolic
- "The star to every wandring barke"
- Lighthouse - love guides ship
- "Whose worths unknowne"
- love's true worth is unknown as it cannot be measured.
- "If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved"
- If he is wrong, real love doesn't exist.
- Lays reputation on the line.
- Sonnet = love. Love doesn't fall under time's rule so it doesn't have to die like people do.
- Shakespeare drew on religious and classical allusions.
- Always talks about stars, fate and destiny.
- Iambic Pentameter
- "Love is not love"
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