| Front | Explore: ‘that looks on tempests and is never shaken’ x3 Sonnet 116 |
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| Back | •presents love as beyond human distortion or construction as can only describe it in terms of the vastness of nature •Concept love is instinctive and irrepressible - v. much like natural world - love has an innate affinity with nature and cannot be made greater. •Obstacles like 'tempests' defeat human physical capacity, but wouldn't even cause love to be 'shaken', exploring omnipotence of love with the reader |
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