The Silent Sacrifices of Love

The Silent Sacrifices of Love Can comfort be found in falsities? Can security be attained through lies? Can one truly sustain a relationship based on deceit? In Shakespeare’s sonnet When my love swears that she is made of truth, the speaker portrays a less poetic illustration of love through a description of his own involvement with a younger woman, and he demonstrates that love is not a picture perfect romance, but rather a relationship …

…understanding. The speaker takes a very realistic approach to love through the description of his relationship with his young lover. He acknowledges that there must be sacrifices and compromises made on both sides in order to sustain any relationship. By explaining the hard work that goes into maintaining a relationship, he brings down to earth the fairy-tale notion of love that is usually glorified in poetry, and he portrays love in a very realistic light.