Sonnet 116

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


a. Recalling
1. List 3 things that love is not according to Sonnet 116
- Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds
- Love do not bend
- Love is an ever fixed mark


2. List several things that love is according to Sonnet 116
- It is the star to every wandering bark
- Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
- Love bears it out even to the edge of doom

b. Interpreting
What is the measuring of the image star in lines 7-8. How does this image apply to love?
- Love is like a star that guides our lost hearts. It's height is immeasurable and it's worth is unknown. 


c. Extending
Do you agree or disagree with the speaker's interpretaion of love? Why or why not?
- I agree with the speaker.