In Shakespeare's [Like as Waves] and [Let me Not] time's impact on mankind is drastically different depending on the presence of love. The sonnets demonstrate how, with love in life, mankind will live a happier life unbound from time's deterring demands. The loveless speaker in [Like as Waves] feels the heavy weight of time, while the speaker of [Let me Not] does not because they are full of love. The tone comes across as very dreary in [Like as Wave], but [Let me Not] presents a much more upbeat and happy tone. Time rules life without love in [Like as Waves]. It portrays a life where human kind revolves around time, but in [Let me Not] life with love does not change with hours and weeks. [Like as Waves] portrays a loveless life as depressing, while life with love in [Let me Not] is fulfilling and more enjoyable.
In lines 6 and 7 of [Like as Waves] life is seen as a struggle: a battle that human kind must endure. [Like as Waves] displays how human kind constantly battles time and it's repercussions. Portraying life without love as a "sequent toil," mankind struggles to move forward. Ruled by time, the loveless speaker finds nothing good to say about life. "Like as Waves" portrays this life with out love as an unbearable struggle. .
Unlike [Like as Waves], [Let me Not] shows life with love as complete and able to stand against time. Unaware of time's battle, [Let me Not] shows how, with love, mankind rises above the rest. Placed above all the turmoil, with love in life one has a guide to the storm(5,6). [Let me Not] makes the comparison that with love in life mankind are like sailors never "shaken" by the storm(6). .
[Let me Not] depicts life with love as more fulfilling because love does not fall to time's wishes. In line 11, the speaker states that "love alters not" to time's "brief hours and weeks." The speaker belittles time through their use of wording. Using "brief" as an adjective, the speaker puts emphasis on their view of time as pointless and unimportant(12).
