This sonnet presents the extreme ideal of romantic love it never changes, it never fades, it outlasts death and admits no flaw. This sonnet define love, by telling both what it is and is not. In the first quatrain, the speaker says that love ”the marriage of true minds”is perfect and unchanging; it does not “admit impediments,” and it does not change when it find changes in the loved one..
what i found most interesting about Edna "what lips My Lips have Kissed" is the fact that she is warning young people, especially women to make more long term plans instead of jumping into short term relationships that ultimately means nothing.
I like your description of Shakespeare's sonnet as "extreme ideal of romantic love", yet why does the speaker say "marriage of true minds" and not marriage of true hearts (1)? In which line does the warning in Millay's sonnet appear?
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