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Both poems Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare and Cold in the Earth by Emily Bronte deal with the concept of ever lasting 'true love'.
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... Essay on 'Discuss how two different poems treat the idea of love'. Maria Sun With poems of unrequited affections, of couples torn apart and the loss of dear ones, love has been a theme that pops up frequently in poetry. Both poems Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare and Cold in the Earth by Emily Bronte deal with the concept of ever lasting 'true love'. A sonnet is a 14 line poem divided into quatrains, discussing a problem that gets resolved in the final stages of the poem, it is usually about love undergoing the effects of time and mortality. Sonnet 116 attempts to define love by telling us both what it is and what it isn't. The poem employs a simple ABAB rhyme scheme and ordinary monosyllabic language to emphasise how simple true love is. Essentially Sonnet 116 presents the extreme ideal of romantic love: unchanging, never fading, outlasting














