poets react to time dissimilarity. Shakespeare describes love as a powerful force that not only stands up to time but also wins the battle against death, emerging out victories in the end. In Sonnet 116, Shakespeare personifies time, “Love’s not Time’s fool” (Shakespeare, line 9), describing the everlasting and unrelenting nature of love under the threats such as time, declaring that true love is not altered by it. Using imagery to represent youth “rosy lips and cheeks” (Shakespeare, line 9), Sonnet 116 tries to prove that love overshadows superficial elements such as physical characteristics, be them the color of skin, condition of body, youth or old age. According to him, true love transcends physical changes caused by age, time or illness; it defies time and everything in its power, including death. Here the love is like wine: the taste enhances with time. Death comes when the time is over but Shakespeare believes otherwise. Death, Shakespeare argues, cannot part true lovers because their union lasts even after they are gone. It is in their representation of time’s relationship to love that the two poems differ most evidently. Even though the word “death” never appears in this poem, “Remember” is certainly a poem that mainly deals with the component of death. Rossetti acknowledges that time may ultimately crush her lover’s memory of her. In the first line of Remember, she implores the beloved to remember her after she is “gone away”. It must be noticed that even though she uses the repetition of the verb “remember” throughout the poem, this develops from a kind request, “remember me” to an ultimate acceptance of the likelihood of failure ‘better by far you should forget…than to remember” because she ends up taking a more defeated road, believing her lover will not be able to rememb