This image reflects the idea of immortality of true love in Shakespeare's sonnet "Let me not to the marriage of true minds". The image shows a couple who embrace one another, with the words that follow "True love never dies it only gets stronger with time". This connects to Shakespeare's defense of true love as constant, and able to defeat the cruel hands of time. The image shows that love is eternal, and is not threatened by time but instead it grows with time into something much deeper and bigger than time itself. In Shakespeare's sonnet despite the power of time and chance "Love's not Time's fool" ( Shakespeare line 9), although time is the greatest destroyer and controller of life love can up stand time because it is not an object nor nature that can be destroyed physically by time, its a sentimental and profound feeling, that people will carry with them after death, but also leave behind for others.
This is a great post. And this image also, for me, really captures what Shakespeare's speaker says in the first and second stanza, about constancy and unshakability of love. The two people, in this image, locked in an embrace look as if they could withstand a "tempest"(Shakespeare 6).
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