Time has no control over true love’s regard and is not “Time’s fool” (9). Despite time’s control of physical beauty, it does not come “Within his bending sickle’s compass” (10). This metaphor portrays time holding a sickle, a common faming tool used to cut down crops. Although this sickle can cut down the physical beauty of this world, the crop that is love cannot be reached by this devastating tool. Love remains unaffected and “alters not with [time’s] brief hours and weeks” (11). Although man’s body is destroyed by time, the connection between lovers is something that is beyond the realm of time’s lordship. Similarly, the “edge of doom” does not impart destruction upon true love (12). Even in the last moments of life, when time’s power assumes full control and carries one into the next stage of existence, love remains
Time has no control over true love’s regard and is not “Time’s fool” (9). Despite time’s control of physical beauty, it does not come “Within his bending sickle’s compass” (10). This metaphor portrays time holding a sickle, a common faming tool used to cut down crops. Although this sickle can cut down the physical beauty of this world, the crop that is love cannot be reached by this devastating tool. Love remains unaffected and “alters not with [time’s] brief hours and weeks” (11). Although man’s body is destroyed by time, the connection between lovers is something that is beyond the realm of time’s lordship. Similarly, the “edge of doom” does not impart destruction upon true love (12). Even in the last moments of life, when time’s power assumes full control and carries one into the next stage of existence, love remains