Sonnet – 116
-William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116 is one of the best-known and most
beloved poems in William Shakespeare’s sonnet sequence. This says a lot, since this group of
154 poems on the whole is probably the world’s most famous collection of love
poetry.
It has 14 lines. The speaker defines love in this sonnet.
Shakespeare
says that true love never allows obstacles on its way. True love doesn’t change
with the passage of time. No one can uproot love which is fixed constantly in
the mind. True love with stands tempests of trial and misfortune.
The
poet compares love to a Polar star which directs lost ships. It is not
susceptible to storms. The youth and beauty of the lover may pass away but true
love will remain constant though “hours and weeks” pass by. True love
withstands the test of time stays steadfast until the doomsday.
In
the couplet, the poet admits if his statement about love is false, he would not
have written a word about love. If love is mortal or changing. The poet writes,
no man would have indulged in love. The sonnet glorifies the eternal unchanging
nature of love. It never changes, it never fades. It lives longer than death
admits no flaw.
Finally, the poet stakes his own reputation
on this definition, boldly that true love always perseveres, despite any
obstacles that may arise
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