Ahh! i don't get poetry!!! help!!! please?

Question:"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.
oh no! it's an ever fixed mark,
that looks on tempest and is never shaken;
it is the star to every wandering bark.
whose worth's unknown, although his height ebe 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 housrs 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"
-shakespeare
1)
what point of view does the speaker make about love in the first quartrain?
2)
what is love metaphorically compared in the second quartain? -what qualities does love have?
3)
what opposes love in the 3rd quartrain? what iea about love is explored here?
4)
how does the couplet clinch the ideas and emotions of the poem?
pls. help-i'll be grateful. i don't understand this.pls

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: "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.
oh no! it's an ever fixed mark,
that looks on tempest and is never shaken;
it is the star to every wandering bark.
whose worth's unknown, although his height ebe 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 housrs 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"
-shakespeare
1)
what point of view does the speaker make about love in the first quartrain?
2)
what is love metaphorically compared in the second quartain? -what qualities does love have?
3)
what opposes love in the 3rd quartrain? what iea about love is explored here?
4)
how does the couplet clinch the ideas and emotions of the poem?
pls. help-i'll be grateful. i don't understand this.pls

Here, I'll translate the Shakespeare for you, but you have to answer the questions yourself.

Real love isn't stopped by anything,
Love doesn't change
Real love doesn't just disappear
Love is eternal
Even when things are bad it doesn't go away
It's the star that lost ships navigate by
and it can't be quantified, though it is immense
Love doesn't go away just because your partner gets old
It lasts even to death
And if he (the narrator) is wrong
Then he never wrote the poem and no one ever loved

(and since obviously he DID write the poem and people HAVE loved, he must be right).

is this homework? if it is, you should tell your teacher that you don't understand it and see if they could help. I'm sorry but that is what i do when i don't understand something. best of luck!

talk to someone really close to you and see if they understand it if not consult with a person whom is older than you and much more knowledge.