Sonnet 116 Flashcards
Who is the poet?
William Shakespeare
What period is the poem from?
The Elizabethan era
What form is the poem in?
A sonnet
“Let me not to the marriage of…
…true mindes”
“It is an ever…
…fixed marke”
What kind of metaphor is used?
A nautical metaphor
“Lookes on tempests…
…is never shaken”
“It is the star to…
…every wandring barke”
What is personified in the poem?
Time
“Lov’s not Times…
…fool”
What is the first quatrain about?
What love is not
What is the second quatrain about?
The nautical metaphor and what love is
What is the third quatrain about?
Death
Why is there no volta in the poem?
Because the love is constant and unchanged
“Whose worths unknown…
…although his higth be taken”
“Love alters not with his…
…breefe houres and weekes”
“If this…
…be error”
“Beares it out even to the…
…edge of doom”
Does the final couplet weaken or strengthen his argument?
Weaken - use of ‘if’ shows a wavering in his certainty
Also last words are “no man ever loved” so that is the lasting impression
“Though rosie lips and cheeks…
…within his bending sickles compasse come”
