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Love Sonnet S Presents Immortal Everlasting Makes Mockery

Front Sonnet 116:
S presents love as immortal, everlasting, makes mockery of death x3
Back •'love's not time's fool' transcends death, exists beyond the grave, almost palpable?
•'bears to edge doom' doomsday represents greatest threat to humanity's existence - sense of finality never coming to their love
•uses the transient object of the body to juxtapose the permanence of love

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