FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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It is a Shakespearean sonnet.
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It was published in year 1609.
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It is composed of 3 quatrains and a couplet.
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It is a famous love sonnet by William Shakespeare.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the seventh line, the poet makes a nautical reference, alluding to love being much like the north star is to sailors. True love is, like the polar star, “ever-fixed". Love is “not Time’s fool", though physical beauty is altered by it.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Based on the finding, the kinds of love depicted in the sonnet 116 consists of two types, namely: fatuous love and companionate love. Fatuous love is depicted in line 2 until 4 and 5 until 6. Furthermore, companionate love is depicted in line 9 until 12.
Detailed explanation-5: -The poem suggests that love is not true if it changes or “alters when it finds alteration.” According to Shakespeare, love can change within brief hours or even weeks. According to Shakespeare, love bears it out even to the edge of doom.