“Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.” In William Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 116’ the author uses tone, mood, and figurative language to support the ideas that individuals can or will separate from one another, because of the choices and actions an individual makes; those choices and actions can be influenced by an individual’s values and beliefs and that can define the direction in which a relationship takes. The speaker's tone in the poem gives the readers the idea that the choices and actions were influenced by his own values and beliefs. The speaker's tone in the poem gives the readers a sense of longing and firm conviction, regarding how love is cerebral and incorporeal. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ Admit impediments”, the speaker denotes the epitome of romantic love and the idea that love appends not only through the body, but the soul as well. “Rosy lips- rosy cheeks”, conveys the speaker’s idea that love surpasses the corporeal. When combined with the line, "brief hours and weeks" love remains constant and eternal "even to the edge of doom." This indicates that the speaker believes that love also transcends the temporal. …show more content…
“Love's not Time's fool” the speaker was saying that love doesn’t alter through time or with age. This also conveys the idea that love can take an individual in a multitude of directions. The choices and actions of an individual determine that direction. In this case, the mood creates the theme that love is everlasting, perpetual and