【Abstract】 Shakespeare ‘s sonnet 116 is one of the most famous sonnet for its high praise for true love and it is also seen as an expression of Shakespeare’s love attitude. This article takes sonnet 116 as an example to show the theme of love through analyzing its form and content， and the figure of speeches in this sonnet.
　　【Key words】Shakespeare; sonnet 116; metaphor; ploce; personification; theme
　　【作者簡介】胡旭贞，南昌大学。
　　Shakespeare’s sonnet 116 can be read as Shakespeare’s manifestation of true love. Now let’s take a detailed analysis of Shakespeare’s sonnet 116 in terms of form and content， figure of speeches so as to understand its theme better.
　　SONNET 116
　　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
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