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Comparison of Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 and Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare, in his Sonnet 73 and Sonnet 116, sets forth his
vision of the unchanging, persistent and immovable nature of true love.
According to Shakespeare, love is truly "till death do us part," and possibly
beyond. Physical infirmity, the ravages of age, or even one's partner's
inconstancy have no effect upon the affe ....
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.... stormy, troubled world, "an ever-fixed mark That
looks on tempests and is never shaken;..."
He personifies the coming of the end of his life as night, which is
described as "Death's second self" in sonnet 73. However, in Sonnet 116 death
appears in the guise of the grim reaper, Father Time, who mows down all of our
youth, but still cannot conquer love- "Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips
and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come;..."
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