Poetry Analysis 

ILS in 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World

GROUP 1

Abaya, Eich Ashley A.
Aguilar, Zid Ruis K.
Arabe, Ojay P.
Arga, Vince Aron P.
Binay, Jamsin Wayne M.
Binay, Theona Mae R.
Bugtong, Matthew Herkey H.
Catilo, John Robert J.
Cueto, Ma. Fhe M.
Desacula, Lanz Hendrix D.
“Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds”
By: William Shakespeare

Sonnet 116 sets out to define true love by firstly telling the reader what
love is not. It then continues on to the end couplet, the speaker (the poet)
declaring that if what he has proposed is false, his writing is futile and no man
has ever experienced love. Sonnet 116 is one of the best-known and most
beloved poems in William Shakespeare’s sonnet sequence. William
Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as
the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.
He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply
"the Bard") This says a lot, since this group of 154 poems on the whole is
probably the world’s most famous collection of love poetry. His plays have
been translated into every major living language and are performed more
often than those of any other playwright.

The paragraph structure of Sonnet 116 is a type of sonnet that contains

fourteen lines, which are separated into three quatrains (four lines) and end
with a rhyming couplet (two lines). The rhyme scheme of this sonnet
is abab cdcd efef gg and it is the standard rhyme scheme used in English
sonnets. Four of the first eight lines of this sonnet is enjambed, this means it is
poetic term for the continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of
poetry to the next and it lacks punctuation at its line break, so the reader is
carried smoothly and swiftly without interruption to the next line of the poem,
the speaker describes love as a guiding star to lost ships ("wand'ringbarks")
that is impervious to storms (it "looks on tempests and is never shaken").

In line 1-2 the figurative language used is allusion. In this line, it means where
minds are truly in love as it is described there can be no impediment of love.
‌In line 3-4 assonance is the figurative language used. ‌In line 5-6 its metaphor.
In this line it can be compared to love as solid as a rock, high importance of
love in life. I‌n line 9 it is personification.

About consistency & steadiness says that love for someone should last
until the end or until “edge of doom” as Shakespeare called it. He refers love
as marriage of true minds where he meant true as faithful.