{"id":3191,"date":"2012-07-28T14:08:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T19:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2015-08-29T19:04:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T00:04:07","slug":"shakespeare-anagram-sonnet-cxvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/3191","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Anagram: Sonnet CXVI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sonnet CXVI:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Let me not to the marriage of true minds<br \/>\nAdmit impediments. Love is not love<br \/>\nWhich alters when it alteration finds,<br \/>\nOr bends with the remover to remove:<br \/>\nO, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,<br \/>\nThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;<br \/>\nIt is the star to every wandering bark,<br \/>\nWhose worth\u2019s unknown, although his height be taken.<br \/>\nLove\u2019s not Time\u2019s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks<br \/>\nWithin his bending sickle\u2019s compass come;<br \/>\nLove alters not with his brief hours and weeks,<br \/>\nBut bears it out even to the edge of doom.<br \/>\n  If this be error, and upon me prov\u2019d,<br \/>\n  I never writ, nor no man ever lov\u2019d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Shift around the letters, and it becomes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The hero&#8217;s vivid verse betokens what<br \/>\nRevision moods for marriage norms befall.<br \/>\nRethinking home life won&#8217;t disturb ours, but<br \/>\nDenying some their rights makes shames for all.<br \/>\nReligious voters revved up, think again.<br \/>\nDeem this opinion, not like proven fact.<br \/>\nWe minimise Him at evoking men<br \/>\nTo harbor hidden love and not to act.<br \/>\nTo honor same-sex lovebirds who invest<br \/>\nIn that we vehemently do erect,<br \/>\nTo think that love should not be too suppressed;<br \/>\nIt tends to kick in where we least suspect.<br \/>\nFor while the Bard was wed to Mrs. Anne,<br \/>\nHe wrote this sonnet for another man.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonnet CXVI: Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,84,95,9,46,3,20,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anagram","category-anne-hathaway","category-poetry","category-politics","category-religion","category-shakespeare","category-social-justice","category-special-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4588,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3191\/revisions\/4588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}