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Since humankind first began to write, the great poets have devoted themselves endlessly to exploring the idea of "love" in all its manifold profundities. In the English language, no writer is greater than Shakespeare - and no writer has ever come as close as Shakespeare to defining what exactly "love" is. In his sonnet, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds," Shakespeare outlines what true love means with an elegance that is unsurpassed in the English canon. With this in mind, the following essay will look at how Shakespeare addresses the concept of love - and how successful he actually is at doing so. For this analysis to be successful, semiotics and structuralism will both be employed; the initial body paragraph of this paper, in fact, will describe each in brief. From there, each quatrain of the poem will be explored utilizing the inter-related perceptual tools given us by semiotics and structuralism. In the end, Shakespeare provides his readers with an excellent description of how his notion of true love is unchanging, timeless and unconditional - which may not be all that different from the larger western conception of love that has persisted for eons.

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Structuralism and the Semiotics of Love in Shakespeare's "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" Since humankind first began to write, the great poets have devoted themselves endlessly to exploring the idea of "love" in all its manifold profundities. In the English language, no writer is greater than Shakespeare - and no writer has ever come as close as Shakespeare to defining what exactly "love" is. In his sonnet, "Let me not to the marriage of true minds," Shakespeare outlines what true love means with an elegance that is unsurpassed in the English canon. With this in mind, the following essay will look at how Shakespeare addresses the concept of love

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