Love’s not time’s fool
...coming to the end of a year just like he is coming to the end of his time. His twilight days are now at there end, as things are getting darker now as his sun set of life is setting. The black night which represents death will soon take his life from him and lay him to rest. He looks at life as being like the embers of a fire, once glowing full of fuel like his youth, now left with just ashes. After reading the last two lines of the sonnet I had come up with two conclusions that I felt Shakespeare was trying to emphasize on the young boy. Firstly, the young boy should love and treasure his time with the old man even more now because he knows he is nearing his end of time. Secondly, he should not take his own life for granite but love his life even more because life is like the leaves of a tree. Now full and green with youth, will one day turn yellow and slowly fall off. Sonnet 116 was written as what I perceive sonnets to be, a lover talking to or about his lover. It gave me the mental picture of Shakespeare preaching his beliefs on what true love is to a lover. Love should be constant and not altered with time. In the first two lines of the sonnet Shakespeare lets his audience know that he will not ever come between two lovers and that true love is not true love if it lets obstacles get in its way. Shakespeare fells that the most powerful obstacle for love is time because over time many things change with ones lover. Shakespeare says that ones lover will “alter” but love should not, when a beloved one ages with time your love for her shall not change. With time there will also be out side temptations trying to pull you away but you shall not be lured in by these forces. If your love is altered by these forces of the “remover” it was not true love. Your love should be like a rock, “an ever fixed mark,” because over the years you’ll have run ins with “tempest,” bad times when your love should be even stronger, to help one another sail thru rough waters. True love doesn’t vary “But bears it out even to the edge of doom.” However powerful time maybe Shakespeare is sure that love is stronger. In the sonnets heroic couplet, Shakespeare says that if what I have written is proven wrong “I never writ, nor no man ever loved.” As we all know, Shakespeare has written and that man has loved. Shakespeare wrote these two sonnets using his famous 14 line stanza method of: abab cdcd efef gg. He also uses trochaic rhymes to really pull things together. The use of these methods together...