Determine the meaning of the underlined phrases in the context of the passage. Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare Let me not to t
he 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
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.
