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Assignment 1
Directions: Read and consider the following sonnet several times. Answer the question that follows with a paragraph, then press the “submit” button.
Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare
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-fixèd mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand’ring bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his highth 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.
What seems to be the narrator’s attitude toward love in this sonnet? How does this attitude compare to Sonnets 33, 34, and 35 that we read last week? Is the tone flippant or serious?
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