This poem is about unconditional love. This image reminded me of this poem because not many people have a long lasting relationship. The poem states that love shouldn't break when one finds faults. Marriage should be unbreakable, not a disposable paper.
This image, for me, captures what Shakespeare's speaker says in the third stanza of "Sonnet 116." In that stanza the speaker says "Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks/
ReplyDeleteWithin his bending sickle's compass come" (Shakespeare 9-10), which is reflected in the image you've posted of an elderly couple gazing lovingly into each other's eyes.