THE MARRIAGE OF THE MINDS

THE MARRIAGE OF THE MINDS

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), the greatest poet and playwright in English, was the third of eight children born to a glovemaker in Stratford- upon-Avon in English. He received little formal education. At eighteen. He received little formal education. At eighteen, he married Anne Hathway, eight years his senior, and soon moved to London.within few years, he was well known as a leading actor and playwright. His great tradedies include Hamlet(1602), Othello (1604), King Lear (1605) Macbeth (1606). He wrote 154 sonnets. Some of them are addressed to an attractive young man, (the Earl of Southampton whom the poet urges to marry) : others to a mysterious dark lady. A Love triangle - two men to a women - is suggested in a number of sonnets. ' The Marriage of True Minds'is 116th (CXVI) sonnet which defines the nature of true love.

The Marriage Of True Minds 

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediaments . 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 wand' ring 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:-

It this be error and upon me proven,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.