SONNET 116
Kelly Kater, Jackie Rogers, Erin Wood, Sarah
Markiewicz
Sonnet 116
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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.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Match the Sonnets with the
paraphrasing!
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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.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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Prove me wrong, but either I never meant
what I have written or man has never
loved.
Do not let me obstruct the love between
two people with my statements. Love is
not love when it changes when changes
come, or conforms to the problems that it
is presented.
Love does not suffer time, while
appearance can go with time, love stays
the same. It endures time and can survive
all problems.
Love is constant, it looks past its issues.
Love is a hope to all, a guiding force. You
can not understand love until you have
felt it.
The Summary
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Where do you think the summary occurs?
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If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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summarizes the sonnet by saying that if none of what he
said is true, than no man has ever loved before.
Theme
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What do you think the theme
of the sonnet is?
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The theme, true love is one that can
endure the tests of life and time, is
what Shakespeare is trying to
convey through this sonnet. You can
see the theme through this line
“Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove”
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Shakespeare explains that love
can withstand anything thrown at it,
and continues to say that “ If this be
error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
Shakespeare uses these lines in his
sonnet to make the point that love, if it
is true love, fits these qualities.
Sonnet 116 vs. Pride and Prejudice
Sonnet 116
Pride and Prejudice
Can you find all the literary devices in
the sonnet?
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:
Literary Devices?
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.
Literary Devices?
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.
Literary Devices?
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Questions
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Put the first sentence into your own words. Does the
word admit mean “acknowledge” or “let in”?
How does the speaker regard love that does not
“admit impediments”?
Questions (cont.)
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According to the speaker, how long should love last?
What metaphor is used to show that love should be
firm and steady?
Questions (cont.)
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Comment on the effectiveness of the concluding
couplet.