This oft-quoted sonnet is a stable of weddings for this very reason. Basically this is theme of every romantic film ever in Twilight, they take this idea to the next level by literally becoming immortal to be together forever. This is a theme that has carried on through our poetic tradition and modern storytelling tradition: true love that never ends. The core notion is that love is “never shaken” and an “ever-fixed mark”. This sonnet deals with the nature of love, investigating what it is, and what it is not. Though the opening line of these sonnets may be familiar, we plan on diving a little deeper into the text to see if we can unpack what sonnet 116 is all about! This iconic Shakespeare sonnet sits alongside other classics such as Sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?) and 130 (My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun). Sonnet 116 is one of Shakespeare’s most well-loved sonnets. This deeply thinking speaker has become convinced that no argument could ever be brooked against his claims.Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. In the quatrains, he has offered three qualities that love possesses: (1) it is "the marriage of true minds," (2) it remains "an ever-fixed mark," and (3) it is not "Time's fool." Thus, he has argued his stance through drama, through metaphor, and through persuasion. The speaker has completed his definitive description of the nature of love.
Thus it could never be otherwise that that divine quality could ever change its nature, for its very nature is the natural force that all humanity craves and will continue to crave as long as physical, mental, and spiritual bodies exist in their current forms. Love is the driving force, the dynamic power employed by that Ultimate Creator to fashion all things on earth and in heaven.
The speaker is dramatically and metaphorically likening love to the power of the Creator of the Cosmos. The speaker has already demonstrated that love cannot be "alter" in "hours and weeks"-or even years and decades for that matter-because love continues to ply its force until the world is taken back into the bosom of its Creator. Time will destroy the youthful beauty of those physical characteristics, but against love Time has no power. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,īut bears it out even to the edge of doom.Īlthough "rosy lips and cheeks" may be labeled "Time's fool," love cannot be so labeled. Within his bending sickle’s compass come Love ’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel: A Man of Peace And it is only that union that permits the soul to remain standing as worlds around it come crashing down. The great spiritual leader and father of yoga in the West, Paramahansa Yogananda, has averred that the goal of humanity, the goal of each soul is to become so in love with the Divine Creator that the strength of the soul will allow it to "stand unshaken midst the crash of breaking worlds." That strength attaches to the ultimate nature of the love that the speaker in sonnet 116 is describing because love provides the ability for each soul to unite with its Divine Belovèd, it own Divine Creator. Thus it is with love, its value cannot be estimated because it remains a dynamic force and always for the good of the those who love. While the distance of the polestar from the earth may be calculated, its value to humankind in remaining a steady force cannot be plumbed. As the North Star guides ships, love guides the hearts and minds of those who truly love. Love then serves as such a polestar despite the trials and tribulations that confront the beleaguered minds, true love remains to guide those dear hearts out the storms of life on this planet. He thus metaphorically likens "love" to the polestar of the North, which remains, "an ever-fixed mark," serving to guide ships on their voyages across the ocean.Įven when storms whip up and toss the ships with violent winds and rains, the polestar remains ever constant, ever guiding the ships direction. Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be takenĬontinuing with his description of true love, the speaker now moves on to his second quality attributed to that description and definition. That looks on tempests and is never shaken
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