Question

What is the theme of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116?

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Answer 1

If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

A. steadfastness of love
B. immortality of art
C. power of time and nature
D. uncertainty of life

Answer 2

@Maddy95

Answer 3

oh i think i doen something like this before in class tell me see if i can remember about it lol

Answer 4

lol

Answer 5

The main theme of this sonnet, like so many of Shakespeare's sonnets, is love. In the poem, he is talking about the constancy and permanency of love.

In this sonnet, Shakespeare talks about how love does not change. He says love does not change depending on the circumstances. He says it does not change over time. He says it stays solid like a lighthouse.

He says that he is absolutely sure of these things -- if he is wrong, there has never been love in the world

Answer 6

so A?

Answer 7

i think so

Answer 8

ok thnx :)

Answer 9

no prb :)