The first analogy appears in the fifth line, where love is compared with a lighthouse. A lighthouse is meant to help ships to find their way in the sea. They usually become useful when the ships are caught in the middle of the sea during a storm. In such situations, the lighthouse guides them towards the shore. It is true love that guides a person to safety at such times. The second analogy is in the seventh line, where true love is compared with the North Star. The North Star helps ships in navigation during the night time.
The speaker sounds like an orator who is confident about his knowledge and wants to convince those who are listening to him. A skeptical reader, however, might start suspecting the motives of the speaker after coming across such a desperate start. The speaker wants the minds to be true to each other and true to the notion of love. There might be a lot of people who will claim that they are in love but will be true to each other. Such people do not qualify for the standards set by the speaker.
The speaker says that when two persons are true to each other, they will never face any hindrance in their communion. Even if they do face some difficulties, their love will be strong enough to help them through the tricky times. It takes away the concept of lust and physical attraction and leaves platonic love only.
When we talk about a person, we mean the body and the soul both. But when we specifically say mind, it means that we are subtracting the bodily needs. The notion of true love beyond any limits is also strengthened by the technique of enjambment. The thought moves from the first line into the second line and trespasses the limit of a line. It shows that true love can go beyond any limit.
The second sentence is another assertion where the speaker informs the reader what true love is not. Here the alliterative sound pattern of the line makes the reader feel the urgency of the speaker in delivering his argument. Enjambment is again employed in this line, which furthers the concept of trespassing in the first line. The last line of the quatrain provides another instance of the same theme. Love can never be altered by anything. The forces of the world may try and try but will never succeed in bending love.
Love does not bow down in front of any authority as there is no authority higher than its own. The redundant images of the stern nature of love intensify the claim of the speaker. After illustrating what love is not, the speaker turns toward describing what love really is. This tells the reader that the mark means a lighthouse. True love remains unaffected by any trouble that comes in its way, just like a lighthouse is unshaken during tempests.
The next line brings another analogy where true love is compared with the North Star. The North Star serves the purpose of guiding lost ships during the time of need. Love serves humans in the same manner and helps them in surviving through bad times. The North Star is also suggestive of steadfastness. It stays in the same place throughout the year. So, the speaker is saying that true love stays firm no matter how many changes occur in its surroundings.
In the last line of the quatrain, the speaker elucidates the value of true love. Similarly, one can see the outward manifestation of love, but the real worth of love is unknown to the common people. The third quatrain resembles the first quatrain in the sense that it talks about what love is not. This image holds time as a worldly despot who has many jesters in its court. Every jester performs according to the will of the King. However, love is not a fool.
Which changes when it finds a change in circumstances,. Or bends from its firm stand even when a lover is unfaithful:. That looks on tempests and is never shaken;. Love is the guiding north star to every lost ship,. Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Whose value cannot be calculated, although its altitude can be measured. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks. Andrew has a keen interest in all aspects of poetry and writes extensively on the subject. His poems are published online and in print. It goes on to declare that true love is no fool of time, it never alters. Shakespeare's sonnets were first published as an entity in and focus on the nature of love, in relationships and in relation to time.
The first one hundred and twenty six are addressed to a young man, the rest to a woman known as the 'Dark Lady', but there is no documented historical evidence to suggest that such people ever existed in Shakespeare's life. The sonnets form a unique outpouring of poetic expression devoted to the machinations of mind and heart. They encompass a vast range of emotion and use all manner of device to explore what it means to love and be loved. 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. 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 prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd. Sonnet is an attempt by Shakespeare to persuade the reader and the object of his love of the indestructible qualities of true love, which never changes, and is immeasurable.
But what sort of love are we talking about? Romantic love most probably, although this sonnet could be applied to Eros, Philos or Agape - erotic love, platonic love or universal love. So love does not alter or change if circumstances around it change. If physical, mental or spiritual change does come, love remains the same, steadfast and true. If life is a journey, if we're all at sea, if our boat gets rocked in a violent storm we can't control, love is there to direct us, like a lighthouse with a fixed beam, guiding us safely home.
Or metaphorically speaking love is a fixed star that can direct us should we go astray. And, unlike beauty, love is not bound to time, it isn't a victim or subject to the effects of time.
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