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Poetry Time - Shakespeare's most loved Sonnet on Love
2007/10/13,09:40

        Shakespeare's sonnet 16 - This itself will ring a bell to most avid readers of poetry, even to people who are not much into poetry.

       The metaphors that he used are thought provoking, especially this one 

-       It is the star to every wandering bark,
        Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

       What does Shakespeare refer by the star's height? Does he refer to the physical proximity between the lover and the beloved? or what else could it be? And what a fantastic metaphor to say 'whose worth's unknown' - how beautifully he weaves the importance of star to a bark! Here is that famous sonnet!

 
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.

Thanks to Shakespeare for this wonderful work! 

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