I understand he wished to make the thoughts conveyed be personal and therefore ends with a reference to himself, but to me those last two lines are like having a Rolls Royce and putting a Chevy insignia on it.Īll that aside, it seems only right that those expressions on the everlasting quality of love were written literally hundreds of years ago and yet are still being read with tender feeling today. As it is, he seems to have hurriedly come up with some way to end his sonnet. I wish that the last two lines would have been on as high a level of thoughtfulness and moving in their scope as what precedes them. However, though I fear I may come across as pretentious, I will say I am not crazy about the ending of Sonnet 116. As he is on his carriage ride home, the words and thoughts fill his mind, so that by the time he has arrived there, he rushes to his desk and writes one of the most beautiful expressions of love. They only lack a certain flow and rhythm to become poetic. I can just imagine Shakespeare attending a wedding and while he is listening to the vows being recited, he considers how lovely and profound the thoughts are. In effect, saying "no person shall remove me from you." And till death - the edge of doom - the wedding promise is made to last for the married couples' whole lives. that is, anyone a person has known before the marriage vows are taken or who may come afterward. The words with the remover to remove are quite odd to decipher, though I think he is referring to the idea of "forsaking all others" .
Certainly, anyone who has been married for a few years knows that change or alteration is not something that may come, but is certain to come in many different ways. The idea of love not altering when alteration it finds seems to be a reference to "in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer" the couple declares during their vows. Something that comes up clearly in 116 is the allusion to marriage vows, and I believe that Shakespeare was inspired by those wedding vows to pen his thoughts. There are several opinions on the intended meaning of Shakespeare's sonnet number 116, and though I am not doing a line-for-line explanation, I would like to express my impressions on this lovely sonnet.
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