Love often gives people a sense of direction, guiding them through the course of life. In Sonnet 116, the metaphors “it is an ever fixed mark” and “that looks on tempests and is never shaken” delineate the unrelenting nature of true love (Shakespeare, line 5 and 6). Shakespeare uses these metaphors and extended metaphors that brilliantly evaluate the strength and force of love because, powerful and dynamic, this kind of love defeats storms and does not loose hope in the face of adversities or challenges. He tries to highlight the fact that nature often tries to destroy love but love even fights the nature. Moving on, Shakespeare uses another metaphor for love “a star to every wondering ship” (Shakespeare, line 7), contrasting it with the north star, which is a guide for sailors who go astray. Just as a north star guides the “wondering” sailors through the complications at sea, true love guides lovers through the complications of life. In the final lines of Sonnet 116, Shakespeare makes a very daring and dramatic claim about the veracity of his bold statements using a hyperbole, which may also be seen as a paradox “If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved,” (Shakespeare, line 13 and 14). Shakespeare puts his own credibility as a poet on stake by asserting that if proved wrong , he will never write again. Such is his faith on love, himself and his poetry. He further declares that if he is ever established wrong in his definitions of love, then no man or women have ever loved. In other words, if his claim is not right, the rest are all wrong. He is confident and fearless in his stance, compelling the reader to trust him completely. Rossetti’s sensitive, careful and cautious tone is missing from Shakespeare’s more ardent poem, overflowing with rhetorical flourishes (‘Oh no!’). Rossetti, in Remember, is not as daring in her claims. Her presentation of the noun “vestige” (Rossetti, line12) is a very significant one because it touches upon whatever will be left of her after her death, alluding to her thoughts that her lover shall recall after when she is no more. These thoughts will linger in his mind, become a part of his memory and haunt his existence for eternity. She seems conscious about being forgotten, which is why, considers these thoughts to be the only source by which she’ll live, long after she is gone, in her lover’s world. People die, but love doesn’t, wh