Let me notĪpparent love is not love which alters etc.Ī permanent beacon or signal for shipping Notes based on Arden edition of Shakespeare's sonnets: 1. It does not alter when it meets some problem or difficulty. Love, as spoken of in the sonnet, is constant. Our likes and dislikes tend to change rather quickly. There is a difference between like and love. Love which is here today but gone tomorrow is not real. If this be error, and upon me prov’d,I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,īut bears it out even to the edge of doom. Within his bending sickle’s compass come Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. That looks on tempests, and is never shaken This particular sonnet stresses the constancy of true love: It is not fickle or changing, but is constant and true : Sonnet 116 Shakespeare’s sonnets are a remarkable collection of poems and their essential theme is that of love.
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