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Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare - Coggle Diagram
Sonnet 116 - William Shakespeare
Summary: Love is a constant and unchanging , unaffected by time or hardship - love remains as a content guiding force
Key Themes:
Enduring Love - love that remains strong despite external challenges
Faithfullness - sonnet asserts a moral certainty about love's nature
time and morality - though time affects beauty and life, love transcends it
Structure:
iambic pentameter
Meter often used in love poetry
volta - turn of thought line 9
rhyming couplet at end reinforces conviction
Techniques
Metaphor - love as a 'ever - fixed mark' and a guiding 'star'
Personification - time as a reaper with a sickle, suggesting morality
Certainty
Repetition
declarative tone - confident assertions about loves performance
paradox - love is unchanging in a world where everything else chnages
Comapre with:
Remember - ( love beyond death)
If - (virtue and constancy) - inner strength and moral clarity
Do Not Go Gentle - (endurance)
Key terms:
Synecdoche - "marriage of true minds" - symbolic of wholes person, personalities much more important
Platonic love
True Love is everlasting
Oxymoron - "bending sickles compass come" - human contracts - time is limited + alliteration
key ideas
unchanging nature of love - true love is steadfast, not subject ti external forces
moral certainty - speaker confidently states that if he is wrong no man has ever loved
love vs time - though time may age phyical beauty, it cannot destroy true love