Sonnet 116

This particular sonnet is a commentary on the true nature of love which is really an interesting and complex subject. Shakespeare's overarching belief is that love is not an emotion that succumbs to change, but is instead unfaltering and irrevocable. In classic Shakespearean fashion, a metaphor is used that compares love to one of the most sturdy edifices in all of human architecture: the lighthouse. This comparison assuredly presents the solidness of love, and also introduces a new facet of the emotion as a guiding force. Time is again personified as it is said that love is not time's fool, meaning that love doesn't play to the whims of time as a jester would his employer. Love should persist even to the end of everything according to the poem, and Shakespeare end's aggressively saying that he is inherently correct at the consequence of the default of obviously true occurrences. This method of persuasion, meaning that employed by the couplet, is now a very common type of statement in literature and pop culture.