Question

If thou must love me, let it be for nought

Answer 1

The statement which best states the central idea of the sonnet is: A) Love should not be based on superficial things. Elizabeth Barrett focused her sonned on what pure love is. In these lines she wanted to convey a message that such feeling as love can't be reasoned. One should not fall in love because neither of a lover's beauty, nor because of its charm as these things can be changed by the time.