Poetry- Essay 1 New Criticism "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: ....