(Line 14) The basic division of this poem's argument into the various parts of the sonnet form is extremely simple: the first quatrain says what love is not changeable (Lines 2-4), the second quatrain says what it is a fixed guiding star unshaken by tempests (Lines 5-6), the third quatrain says more specifically what it is not "time's fool" (Line 9)--that is, subject to change in the passage of time, and the couplet announces the speaker's certainty. ... Then, the speaker tells what love is through a metaphor: a guiding star to lost ships "wandering barks" (Line 7) that are not ...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Sonnet 116 Sonnet 116 is just one of the many great works of Shakespeare. In it, he identifies what love is, and what it is not. His idea is that love is unbreakable, and will prevail through all hardships. Shakespeare's word choice is remarkable. "Never shaken-, "fixed mark-, "height."" All of th...

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• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Written between the autumn of 1890 and spring of the next year, "Spring Awakening" was the first major play in the modern era of theater. The play was banned due to its controversial subject matter; human sexuality, child abuse, suicide and homosexuality. Adapted in 2006 by Steven Sater, the play b...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Aldous Huxley chooses to include references to the literary works of Shakespeare many places in his novel Brave New World. The most obvious, and perhaps most significant allusion is the title itself. Shakespeare's The Tempest is the play from which the phrase originates. This quotation is used many ...

• Word Count: 1445
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate