Shakspeare and Edna St. Vincent Millay

In Shakespeare's "Let me not to the marriage of true mind", and Millay's "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why", both address how love is immortal.  In Shakespeare's poem he speaks of love as constant despite the power of time and chance. When he says " Love's not Time's fool", he shows how true love beats the hands of time, and can never die. In Millay's poem, the speaker of the poem reminisces on their numerous lover affairs of their younger days. The speaker shows how love lives on " lips my lips have kissed" by recalling joyful times of intimidate love affairs. When the speaker says "And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain for unremembered lads", these powerful words show how emotion lasts even though memories fade going back to the concept of time. Both poems show that time has no sense of control over love. Love does not deteriorate or grow old, it remains powerful against its greatest destroyer time.