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the poet celebrates platonic or ideal love,a kind of love wich is not "time's fool" but to the end of the world.

the images that make up the sonnet are those of a century-old tradition:love is a beacon,love is a leading star.Both images are well-know in mediaval and renaissance poetry. The italian reader may also be familiar with the "wandering bark" through his reading of Dante,the poets of the dolce stil novo and Petrarch.Love is first defined as something unchanging and unmoveable among the tempests of the world.But in the following lines there is movement in time's deadly motion and in the passing of his "brief hours and weeks". The final couplet exemplifies Shakespeare's way of closing his sonnets epigrammatically:it is as impossible that is idealof love is false as if he had never written anything,or "no man ever loved".

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