What is Shakespeare saying in the first quatrain? I understand the rest of the sonnet just not this part.
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.
2007-11-07 19:13:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
I think this quatrain sets out the conditions for the rest of the sonnet. Love is strong - if it is true it is perfect and will not change just because the conditions of life change - in other words if the conditions change around love, it should not shake the original love - if it does, then the love was not 'the marriage of true minds' - or true love!
2007-11-07 19:33:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let me not declare any reasons why two
True-minded people should not be married. Love is not love
Which changes when it finds a change in circumstances,
Or bends from its firm stand even when a lover is unfaithful.
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2007-11-07 21:02:31 · answer #2 · answered by ari-pup 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
shakespeare is saying that if love is conditional, it is not love at all.
a lover who changes his opinion of his partner because she has changed her opinion of him, was never really in love in the first place.
2007-11-07 20:02:14 · answer #3 · answered by synopsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without...
Marrage also
You do love...
You do sex...
No problem
Marrage is only
At only for...
Family life
Life with family...
Thats all...
--otteriselvakumar
2007-11-07 20:33:35 · answer #4 · answered by otteri selvakumar 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋