‘O no, it is an everfixed marke,/ That looks on tempests and is never shaken,/ It is the stars to every wandring barke’.All his writings would be worthless without love in this form. Absolute and firm in his beliefs about love. ‘If this be error and upon me proved,/ I never writ, nor no man ever loved’.Love is everlasting and will ‘not alter when it alteration findes’.
There is a pleasure/revelling in love that is constant throughout the poem.
It praises the glories of lovers coming to each other freely, as opposed to arranged contractual marriages that were common at the time. Summary: This poem is about love in its purest and most ideal form. Some scholars believe that William Shakespeare was a raging homo gay or bisexual. It can be deduced that Sonnet 116 is addressed to this mystery man. All of these sonnets centred around the theme of love, and the speakers love for the addressee. There is a sense of continuity through the first 126 sonnets, which have been speculated to be written for a man. Context: Back at it again with ya boi Willy Shakespeare wrote hundreds of sonnets through his lifetime, which all held personal themes and are considered to be autobiographical.
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