Shakespeare's Sonnets
7. How does time alter true love? What is the significance of the imagery "bending sickle's compass..."?
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The sonnet talks about how time erodes beauty as rosy lips and cheeks come within “his bending sickle's compass,” This is allusion to the grim reaper and the passage of time.
