Can someone please help me compare and contrast Sonnet 43 and Sonnet 116?
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. It would help to have the entire text of sonnet 116, which I included here. Things they have in common: subject in both is true, romantic love, with references to light of some kind. Sonnet 43 focuses more on the object of the speaker’s love, or the person he is in love with, but Sonnet 116 focuses more on the actual definition of true love. Sonnet 43 has more lines which play with the definition of words: for exampl
