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Analysis Of Sonnet 116 By William Lynn

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‘’what is love
Love is an intense feeling of affection, which every individual have had as an experience either in the past or present thereby referring or claiming it as true love. In order words, my question goes like this, does love seem to be true in a literary context, is there any emotional bond that actually proves love to be pure according to psychological criticism of ‘’Texts and Context,’’ book by ‘’Steven Lynn.’’ And can we see love as honest and true, if we answered yes to all these, then how can we relate it to our personal lives and what is our own definition of true love or real love.
According to my close reading analysis of Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare, is a fourteen line poem that is organized into three quatrains, ending with a rhymed couplet. Not only that it also has a regular stress partner which makes the reader to go through some difficulty in understanding what the author is trying to convey in his poem writing. The first quatrain of the poem began with a statement to puzzle upon ‘’Let me not to the marriage of true mind, Admit impediments’’ Here, the poet is trying to define love as ‘’ the marriage of true minds, and therefore claims that he doesn’t wish to find any fault with people who already are in love, therefore the author strongly believed that for love to be real then there shouldn’t be any form of impediments to it. In other words, the word ‘’impediments’’ stops the second lines of the iambic pentameter with its

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