Sonnet 116
Sonnet 116
shakespeare is writing about how constant true love is. It cannot be broken or shaken, even as people age, if their love is real love it will remain powerful as ever. If it is genuine it will not change when circumstances do. He says if what he says isn't true, then he never wrote anything and no man has ever been in love, since we know men do love and he did write he's saying his words are true
- FORM- This poem is a sonnet, sonnets were a popular form for writing about love in shakespeare's era. This sonnet is made up of three quatrains ( a group of four lines of rhyming poetry) ending in a couplet. The regular rhyme scheme connotes a sense of completeness
- STRUCTURE- the quatrains all discuss the same idea of love being unchaning in slightly different ways, using different imagery, the final couplet is the narrators garuntee that he's telling the truth.
- LANGUAGE ABOUT SAILING- true love is shown to be reliable, it guides us in a stormy and uncertain world.
LANGUAGE ABOUT TIME AND AGEING- when we get older we look different, perhaps not as attractive, but true love isn't teicked by the effects of time, it remains the same, it isn't at the mercy of time; it is infinate
feelings and attitudes in the poem
- DEVOTION-the voice of the poem is declaring a live which will not change
- CONSTANCY- he sees love as fixed and eternal, something that wont change
TRUE LOVE- it's not shallow, superfical love which is based on what love looks like
'it is the star to every wand'ring bark'- metaphor which compares love to the pole star which stays in the same place
time is also personified in this poem to make it dramatic, it also admits that it's within times power to take away beauty and youth
compare with either 'sonnet 43' or 'To His Coy Mistress' which deals with the effects of progressing love from an alternitive ang
- Created by: Esmepicton
- Created on: 22-04-14 18:01
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