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Theme Of Love In Shakespeare's Sonnet 116

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How is love presented in different ways by poets?
The love is defined hardly as it is percepted differently from person to person, but in a literal definition: “love is a strong feeling of affection.” . Many poets have written about love, some trying to figure out what real love is and some shared their (or imagined) experiences, offering many different views on love and some negative effects of it as well as the positive.
A Sonnet is a poem, expression of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment. It is always containing 14 lines and is usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes. William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” is a poem about love in its most ideal form. He is devoted into explaining …show more content…

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