... , and the result is that the passion seems stronger and more urgent for the restraint in the speaker's tone. My next interpretation of Sonnet 116 is that it attempts to define love. It defines love by telling both what it is and is not. In the first quatrain, the speaker says that love, "the marriage of true minds" (Line 1), is perfect ... removal, showing that there was once "true" love that has now changed, and any change will bring forth the death of love. Then, the speaker tells what love is through a metaphor: a guiding star to lost ships "wandering barks" (Line 7) that are not susc...

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• Grade Level: High School

... feelings can be hard to convey through actions alone. This is especially important when dealing with love, as in Romeo and Juliet'. This is because love is a complicated emotion to define and people often lie about their feelings, or say things that they do not really mean, for example when Romeo plays the part of the tragic lover in Act 1, scene ... cheek of night as a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. The images that he creates with his words are truly beautiful, conveying a sense of innocent awe to the audience. Each metaphor he uses, for example in Act 1 scene 5 when he says, she doth ...

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