Sonnet 116
...crisis. There is also some didactic in this sonnet. In lines 7-8 Shakespeare states that we may be able to measure love to some degree, but this does not mean we completely understand it. The poet feels that love’s actual worth cannot be known and it remains a mystery. Didactic also comes into play in the last few lines. Throughout these lines, Shakespeare states that, if he is proven wrong about his thoughts on love, then he must take back all his writings, truth, and faith concerning love. In addition, he adds that if he has judged love improperly, no man has ever really loved. With that line, there is a tone of inferiority that the poet feels he possesses. The one type of figurative language that sticks out most is personification. The examples I recognized are: “let me not to the marriage of true minds” (minds being able to be married). “Or bends with the remover to remove.” (Love being able to bend.) “It is an ever-fixed mark.” (Love being an ever-fixed mark.) Love is also referred to as a “he.” One example of an apostrophe is “though rosy lips and cheeks.” (Love having human characteristics.) There is also one example of a hyperbole in “But it bears it out even to the edge of doom.” The obvious relation between these figures of speech is they’re of mostly the same kind, personification and apostrophe. One similarity between the figurative languages is they are all related to something human. For example, love can be put into the category of nature because it is compared to stars. There is also some contrast between the figurative language concerning love. In line 7 love is ref...