Sonnet 116 Themes

Everyone has a different definition of love, and this sonnet offers an optimistic take on it. Love here is seen as a truly powerful, unstoppable force of nature. It’s the only constant in a t...

As far as Sonnet 116 is concerned, loyalty plays a key role in true love – actually, the only significant role. The poem asserts that the true marker of love is its persistence; without const...

Mortality in this poem, if not anywhere else, is a non-issue. While Time is usually seen as a force of destruction, which wreaks havoc with basically everything we mere mortals do, it doesn’t...

We see the problem in logic presented at the end of this poem: the poet boldly dares everyone else to prove his idea of love wrong, saying that if it’s false, then he’ll never have writ...