Love Poetry - Comparing Sonnet 116 with Hour

The relationship in “sonnet 116” is between two lovers. In the poem William Shakespeare is giving a message that time does not matter as long as you are with your love “o no it is an ever-fixed mark” and that it is eternal. The poet believes that love is unconditional and cannot be compromised no matter what.

The poem is structured in a single stanza with 14 lines. The love in the poem represents a strange strength in love. It has a rhyme scheme of iambic pentameter which has 10 beats. It refers to time as the main structure of the poem. It is wrote in the view of a first person as Shakespeare says “let me not” and “I never” etc.

In Sonnet 116 Shakespeare shows the emotion that love is a consistent force of nature. I know this because it says “love alters not with his brief hours and weeks” This shows that love which is a force of nature is much stronger than time which is referred as hours and weeks. This is indirectly telling me that love can conqueror anything no matter if it is any disaster or time and that love does not need any changing to match anything and that it was and it will stay the same if it is true. This poem has a second meaning in which Shakespeare compares “hours and weeks” with ageing and how even though your lover might grow old but you will still love them as much and nothing will change which the word “alter” shows. Shakespeare is trying to tell us that love existed through centuries and it will exist. Time is compared as nothing against love.

In Hour Carol and Duffy shows the emotion that love is time’s prisoner and that to do everything you need time. I know this because it says “love’s time’s beggar” this shows that love cannot do anything that it is too weak and that time will always have an upper hand on love. This is also a personification because love can’t beg and it is not a real person. This quote is trying to tell me that time a love has both existed throughout the centuries but has always had an upper hand on love. This has...