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Question: Who is the Speaker of Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare!?
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 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:
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved!. [1]
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Obviously William Shakespeare, who wrote the Sonnet!.
"Sonnet 116 is one of the most famous of the sonnets for its stalwart defense of true love!. The sonnet has a relatively simple structure, with each quatrain attempting to describe what love is (or is not) and the final couplet reaffirming the poet's words by placing his own merit on the line!. Note that this is one of the few sonnets in the fair lord sequence that is not addressed directly to the fair lord; the context of the sonnet, however, gives it away as an exposition of the poet's deep and enduring love for him!."
!.!.!.is one interpretation (See source below)!.
The "speaker" is Shakespeare, who he's "speaking to", or about, is still a mystery!.Www@QuestionHome@Com