Shakespeare Week: Day One

Happy Shakespeare Week! Day One will open this week with one of Shakespeare's sonnets- one of my favorites, actually: Sonnet 116. Madison performed this at our Shakespeare Group Scene's and Soliloquies Evening, and pulled it off beautifully: 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: O no! It is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. Notice the line, Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. That, I believe is one of the most amazing lines in the text. To me, it means Love is not love which changes when it finds a change in circumstance. Love is not time's fool is another line I love: Love is not at the mercy of time! And in my own little way, these two lines make me think of Christ. There are many other analogies to point out in this little soliloqu. See any you'd like to share? Happy Shakespeare Day One! ~His Handmaiden