Question

Determine the meaning of the underlined phrases in the context of the passage. Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare 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: O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. 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 proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Tiles

Answer 1

The underlined phrases are as follows:
1. Marriage.
2. Time's fool.
3. Bending sickle's compass.
4. Edge of doom.
Their meanings are as follows"
1. Marriage - Union.
2. Time's fool - Subject to the whim of change. Love is not a time's fool means that love is constant for all time, it is not subject to change.
3. Bending sickle's compass - In its range of impacts.
4. Edge of doom - Infinity. Edge of doom means time without end.

Answer 2

Answer:

Union - Marriage

In the range of its impact - bending the sickle's compass

subject to the whims of change - time's fool

infinity - edge of doom