Question

What is the meaning of the extended metaphor in Shakespeare's sonnet 116?

Answer 1

Answer:

This sonnet attempts to define love, by telling both what it is and is not. ... In the second quatrain, the speaker tells what love is through a metaphor: a guiding star to lost ships (“wand'ring barks”) that is not susceptible to storms (it “looks on tempests and is never shaken”).

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