Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 argues the point (which is also a theme) that true love is everlasting and not swayed by anything temporal or metaphysical. The first metaphor in line 5 compares love with "an ever-fixed mark", such as a mountain used as a landmark to find one's way. Line 6 refers to this "mark" as one that would look on storms or tempests and still not be moved. Additionally, the storms represent trials, tribulations, or...
Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 argues the point (which is also a theme) that true love is everlasting and not swayed by anything temporal or metaphysical. The first metaphor in line 5 compares love with "an ever-fixed mark", such as a mountain used as a landmark to find one's way. Line 6 refers to this "mark" as one that would look on storms or tempests and still not be moved. Additionally, the storms represent trials, tribulations, or crises through which people travel in life. Then in line 7 the speaker identifies the mark as a star that can't be shaken by anything earthly, but also has an unidentifiable worth.
Next, in line 8, the speaker claims that "Love's not Time's fool." This phrase uses personification for both Love and Time which gives each an identity to which a reader can more likely relate. Love and Time are now pitted against each other as if for battle, but the speaker says that true love will not lose against time.
Overall, the figures of speech in the poem are metaphors comparing symbols such as a star, that can be used as a guide through life and love. Then, personification is used to help the reader see how people have claimed that Time is an excuse for failing Love; but, as a matter of fact, true love would not fade over time.
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