SONNET - 116 SUMMARY

 Sonnet No 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.

Shakespeare in this sonnet lines talks of love. He realises now that love is not Time's Fool.  "Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks-

 Within his bending sickle's compass come"

Time cannot make any obstacles in the way of the union of true lovers.

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love"

True love does not change with the passing of time. Time take away the physical beauty of the object of love. True love is not shaken by storm. It is like pole star which guides the ship. "O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken'.

It continues without change upto the doomsday.  If anyone can prove that what has said is wrong, he would withdraw his words.

Reference: shakespeare-sonnets.com