Love In Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 By William Shakespeare

As Aristotle once said, “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” I am writing about Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare. I picked this poem because of the images the speaker creates in the poem with the lighthouse, storms, boat, and youth. Personally, these images reflect exactly how love is and should be for everyone, and that is exactly what the speaker is trying to convey to the reader. In this essay, I will discuss each of these images, how they help define love and give my personal interpretation of each one. Love can withstand any storm that it is put through, because no human being on this earth is perfect; we have all made a mistake or two in our lives. As the speaker says, “Oh, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, / That looks on tempests and is never shaken:” (5-6). Love is like a lighthouse because the lighthouse has to withstand the harshest …show more content…
If love wasn’t supposed to last long, then the vows would be changed from “to love and to cherish, until death do us part”, to “to love and to cherish, until we just stop loving each other because it will be short anyway”. The speaker says, “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,” (11). Love is not meant to be short, but to be forever until death. I feel that is this right because God put one person on this earth for everyone; every person has that one person they will fall in love with one day. I don’t think that a person can fall in and out of love with someone because then it was never really love to begin with in the relationship. The memories I have with this is my grandparents, once again, because they have been married for fifty years now and they love each other more and more every day. Their relationship is definitely the definition of love between two people. Love is strong, but not just during youth nor is it