61. 501. Sonnet 116(15)
1. Give an introduction to the poem A:- William Shakespeare’s sonnets are mostly concerned with love, beauty, which withstands the ravages of Time. In this Sonnet, the narrator advises the “young man” in this piece that “Love isn’t time fools.” While it encompasses a wide variety of subjects and narrative circumstances, it is the human capacity to respond to the force of time ‘brief hours and weeks,’ the seasons of human life ‘ “looks on tempests” / “the edge of doom”’ that formed the thematic heart of the sonnets. 2. Give the meaning of the poem. A:- The first quatrain states that there is no obstacle to uniting two minds in love (notice that ‘minds’ are not bodies). Love doesn’t change when it finds a change in the beloved, or when the beloved leaves. The second quatrain compares love to a fixed point, unmoved or shaken by anyone. It’s a storm. It’s often seen as a fixed star on a wandering ship. Ships used to navigate around the stars. We can c...