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The exclamation ‘O no!’ at the beginning of quatrain two reinforces the steadfastness and infrangibility of love. No circumstance, however strong, can sever the bonding between true minds. It does not “bend with the remover to remove”. It is, at its best, lust camouflaging as love. Love that changes when it finds occasion or opportunity for change is not love in the genuine sense of the term. Two minds united in love never change their loyalty to each other.

Love, says the poet, is the union or marriage of minds true to each other. The poet dose not admits “impediments in to the marriage of true minds”. The poem is about love as it is distinct and different from lust or sensuality. In certain anthologies the poem appears under the title “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”. The inaugurating line “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” immediately sets forth what the poem is going to tell us. Love, as was customary, is the theme dealt with in the poem. W.H., a young man possessing excellent physical charm. It belongs to the poet’s first series of sonnets addressed to certain Mr. The poem “True Love” is William Shakespeare’s sonnet number 116.

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