Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

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 or 4 things that love is not according to Sonnet 116.

-        Love is strong affection

-        Love hurts.

-        Love is a treasure that everyone can take.

2)   List several things that love is according to Sonnet 116.

-        Love doesn’t change in an hour or weeks.

-        Love can stand still even though there are many circumstances.

-        Love can guide people when they are lost.

-        Love endures forever

-        Love is a feeling that cannot be calculated by anyone.

B.  Interpreting

1)    What is the meaning of the image of the star in lines 7-8?

-  The image of the star means the guiding star to every lost ship that can be measured but can’t be calculated.

How does this image apply to love?

-        Love can lead you like a star when you’re lost and you think that your life is nonsense.

C.   Extending

1)    Do you agree or disagree with the speaker interpretation of love? Why or why not?

-       I agree. Because the definitions of love that were written there are really true