ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Sonnet 116 is a poem by William Shakespeare. Its primary theme is the constancy of love: the speaker argues that true love does not change even if lovers alter over time. As with almost all of Shakespeare’s sonnets, it is written in iambic pentameter.

Detailed explanation-2: -The theme of the poem is fully developed by comparing the everlasting nature of true love to the sun and North star (Pole Star) which is to remain constant and guide the wandering ships in the uncharted ocean. In the same way true love also does not yield before the difficulties of life and guide lovers in their life.

Detailed explanation-3: -William Shakespeare’s poem “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds” is a sonnet written in Shakespearean form. The main subject of this poem is love and the central theme is that love bears all. The poem’s setting is in a narrative form whereby the poet-orator is a man who is relating to love with an imperial tone.

Detailed explanation-4: -Summary: Sonnet 116 This sonnet attempts to define love, by telling both what it is and is not. In the first quatrain, the speaker says that love-”the marriage of true minds”-is perfect and unchanging; it does not “admit impediments, ” and it does not change when it find changes in the loved one.