Sonnet 116 Analysis

Eliezel Ann Garay

BSIT-3B

1. The six characteristics of true love are affection, respect, acceptance, selflessness, trust, and communication. First on my list is affection, most likely effortless and eternal affection, when we are truly in love with someone everything that he do for us is an action of love for you, even the simplest effort that he gives you makes you smile for no reason. You don’t have to go all out or change yourself just because he wants you to. Next is respect, respect is the most important thing for love to continue. It means that he respect you and everything about you enough to never cross the line. Acceptance, we are truly in love when we love someone with all the good in him but makes love even more true when we accept all the flaws he have. Selflessness, we experience true love only when we have something to give. To receive love, we must give love. It's not about fulfilling our own selfish desires, but about working on a common goal. It's about being selfless and caring about our partner’s needs as much as caring about our own. Trust is the most basic foundation of true love. While it is crucial to trust the person with whom we are in love, it is equally important to trust ourselves. True love makes us feel vulnerable without being fearful or defensive. Communication, many people say that they struggle to express their feelings to their loved ones; the only thing that stops them is their egos. Ego is not necessarily arrogance, but also a lack of trust in yourself and how you feel. When words have meaning and are said with a good intention, it's never difficult to let them out.
2. The qualities that I look for a man is faithfulness when he gives me the reassurance that he won’t let me go when he finds someone smarter, kinder and more intelligent than me. Dependability the responsiveness in him that when he never forgets are special dates in our relationship, that kind of thing. Kindness, I don’t really like the over too kind of a boy, I just want someone who can appreciate small things and that when he treats his mom properly that when I know that he will do the same for me. Passion is something of a bonus quality that I look for a man because it's proof that you care for and about something beyond yourself. Sense of humor, this is what all girls fall for because who doesn’t really?  Humor tells a woman that you can laugh at—read, handle easily—the many difficulties that life throws at you.
3. The bender or the “remover” of love is the unfaithful partners, gender is not the measurement whether he or she is unfaithful or not. It is the person’s characteristic if his or her partner lack the affection that he or she needs or maybe he or she is just tired on something you can’t give him, he or she want to break up but lacks the confidence to tell you. He is not contented on what you can give him because he wants something else.
4. Love is a star when your feelings about that particular person no matter what does not change. It means that even though there are so many stars up in the sky you only choose him that in fact, there is much brighter star than she is.
5. According to the last two lines of the poem, if someone could prove him that he was wrong then he never written anything and no man has ever truly loved someone. We know William Shakespeare’s work as a work of art. One of his popular works were about true love hence Sonnet 116 was made. That if someone could prove him that he was wrong then all his work would be wrong, too.