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. 

A. Recalling
1. List of 3 or 4 things that love is not according to Sonnet 116
a.) Love is lost when there are temptations.
b.) Love is shaken when one is not faithful.
c.) Love does not endure the passing of time.


2. List several things that love is according to Sonnet 116.
a.) Love does not change even when circumstances changes or when another becomes unfaithful.
b.) Love cannot be shaken by trials.
c.) Love is patient until the end of time even when physical attributes changes with time.


B. Interpreting
1.) What is the measuring of the image star in lines 7-8? How does this image apply to love?
Love guides and inspires someone to go to a stable destination especially when lost in direction. Love is very precious feeling that its intensity can be measured.


C. Extending
1.) Do you agree or disagree with the speaker's interpretation of love? Why or why not?
I agree. Because love is in accordance with the bible. Love is why Jesus our Lord gave His life for our salvation. Shakespeare's interpretation describes clearly what love is.