Sonnet 116

In William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 he argues about love and how it should never be able to change or it isn’t real love. Shakespeare argues this by saying “O, no, it is an ever-fixed mark” saying that real love between two people can never be affect by anything else. He uses imagery to give us an image of a young girl by saying “those rosy lips and cheeks” and “sickle’s compass” which gave me an image in my head of an aging person from a young girl into an old lady; this also helped his argument because it meant that even when you age the love still stays the same between the two people. He continues to argue by saying “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks…”, this meant that love doesn’t change even after time but it goes all the way through until death. The turn for this poem is the last two lines, it does not shift the argument at all but backs it up because he says if he is wrong then he has never written before and no man has ever loved, which I consider a bit of a clever remark instead of an argument shift. Clever because it means he is not wrong about what he is arguing about and stands by his idea of true love.