Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Will said it best

I was reminded of this poem while watching Sense and Sensibility last week.

Sonnet 116

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.

-- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

1 Comments:

At 10:40 PM, Blogger moiji said...

ah, sonnets. this brings me back to high school english w/ms. anderson. interestly enough, we're working with literary devices in my writing class right now. assonance, personification and metaphor are all in next weeks plans : )

 

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