Question

Determine the meaning of the underlined phrases in the context of the passage.

Sonnet 116
by William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. 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 wandering 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.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.



Tiles




marriage



Time’s fool



bending sickle’s compass



edge of doom




Pairs



union
arrowBoth



in the range of its impact
arrowBoth



subject to the whims of change
arrowBoth



infinity

Answer 1

Where's the underline? to the problem

Answer 2

Answer:

1. Marriage - Union.

2. Time's fool - Subject to the whim of change. Love is not a time's fool means that love is constant for all time, it is not subject to change.

3. Bending sickle's compass - In its range of impacts.

4. Edge of doom - Infinity. Edge of doom means time without end.