Sonnet 116

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Sonnet 116
By Willam Shakespeare
Tina R. May 3,2004
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William Shakespeare1564-1616

• Born Wednesday, April the 26th, 1564.
• William was the third child of John and Mary
  Shakespeare.
• He wrote over 200 poems and 40 plays.
• The Shakespearean sonnet was named after him.

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Sonnet 116

• Let me not to the marriage of true minds
  
• Admit impediments. Love is not love
• Which alters when it alterations finds,
• Or bends with the remover to remove.
• Oh no! It is and ever-fixed mark,
• That looks on tempests and is never shaken
• It is the star to every wandering bark,
• Whose worths unknown although his height be
  taken.
• Loves not Times fool, though rosy lips and
  cheeks
• Within his bending sickles compass come
• Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
• But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
• If this be error and upon me proved,
• I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

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The Translation

• Let me not declare any reasons why two
• True-minded people should be married. Love is not
  love
• Which alters when it finds an alteration in
  circumstances.
• Or bends from its firm stand even when the lovers
  are unfaithful
• Oh no! it is a fixed mark
• That sees storms but it never shaken
• It love is the guiding star to every lost ship,
• Whose value cannot be calculated, although its
  height can be measured.
• Love is not at the mercy of Time, though its rosy
  lips and cheeks
• Come within the compass of his Times sickle.
• Love does not alter with hours and weeks
• But, rather, it endures until the last day of
  life.
• If I am proved wrong about these thoughts on love
• Then I recant all that I have written, and no man
  has ever really loved.

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Response

• I chose sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare.
  This poem stuck out to me because of the topic it
  spoke on. It speaks on an emotion, we all can
  relate to and have felt at one time or another,
  called Love. One of my favorite lines in the
  poem is line five when it states It love is an
  ever fixed mark. I can relate to this line the
  most because I believe that once you have loved
  someone you will always love that person, even
  when situations in your life goes wrong. In line
  nine it states Loves not Times fool. I
  believe this to be true because love will
  withhold the hands of time, if it is true. It is
  forever because it lives on the inside of you.
• Feelings that you may have for another
  person will show eventually whether it be openly
  or in private. Love is a wonderful emotion that
  all of us have felt at one time or another. I
  believe if everyone in the world read
  Shakespeares sonnet 116 and understood his work
  they would find that love is forever.

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Vocabulary

• Impediments - obstruction
• Shakespearean sonnet also known as the English
  sonnet, has sonnet is 14 lines. usually rhymed
  abab cdcd efef gg, presenting a four-part
  structure in which an idea or theme is developed
  in three quatrains and then brought to a
  conclusion in the couplet.

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Work cited

• www.ask.com
• www.shakespeare.com