"A World of Light and Dark" "Let me not to the marriage of true minds/ Admit impediments...," begins Shakespeare in his "Sonnet 116". This work is a potent discourse on the nature of love, not only because of the passion which Shakespeare spills forth onto the page, but also because it takes a bold stance concerning the most mysterious of emotions. Through a careful examination of the text, it is revealed that love is a very black and white subject to Shakespeare. In fact, the poem asserts that the world is constituted solely of extremes: light and darkness, love and hate, and there are no shades of gray to stand between these forces. According to Shakespeare, "Love is not love