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Let me not to the marriage sonnet 116
by DIacumin - (2010-12-03)
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The sonnet “Let me not to the marriage” has been written by Shakespeare and it follows the scheme of Elizabethan sonnet, which has 3 quatrains and a rhymed couplet. This sonnet is focused on the indestructible marriage of minds that could be never altered by external situations, that it is like a landmark that leads people to a good life and it can’t be broken by the bending sickle, the death. With the last couplet Shakespeare says that if he mistakes he has never written and he has never loved anyone. He tells that because his idea of love is a love that is unchanging (line 3), that it can’t be removed (line 4) and that it doesn’t depend by external situations (line 6). He says at last that love can’t be broken also by the death, because love is stronger than it. The most important definitions of love are written in the 2nd quatrain, because the author says that it is an ever-fixed mark, so a thing that could be never erased, an unalterable feeling that isn’t altered by external happenings, that it is like a landmark for sailors in the sea and also an unknown worth that height can’t be taken. In this quatrain there is also a particular use of compounds of “know” because this feeling can’t be ever known at all, because it is obscure and his most important meanings are secrets. But the most important paragraph is the 3rd quatrain, because the author takes in the narration the death, the only thing that all human beings have in common, but that can’t break love, because it doesn’t alters during his brief hours and bears out from the edge of doom. The use of “ever” and “never” in the couplet means that if what he says in the sonnet is not real, no man has never loved nobody and also that love is just an illusion, the opposite of what he has said in all of his sonnet.