Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Terrell's Sonnet


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SONNET 116 

By Shakespeare 

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
   If this be error and upon me proved,
   I never writ, nor no man ever loved. 


Paraphrase-In this sonnet Shakespeare defines love. In the first quatrain when he says "Admit impediments," means that love is perfect and it never changes for a certain loved one. In the next quatrain, Shakespeare demonstrates the power of love through a metaphor, when he talks about a guiding star to lost ships that cannot be effected by storms. The third quatrain he explains that love is also not susceptible to time and once again says love does not change with hours and weeks and goes through the worst of times. In the final couplet he says he is certain about love and that if he is wrong, he must never write again and no man can ever be in love again.

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