Determine the meaning of the underlined phrases in the context of the passage.

Sonnet 116
by William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Underlined terms:
1.) Marriage
2.) Time's fool
3.) Bending sickle's compass
4.) Edge of doom

Pairs:
1.) Union
2.) In it's range of impact
3.) Subject to the whim's of change
4.) Infinity

Respuesta :

1) Marriage = 1) union
2) Time's fool = 2) In its range of impact
3) Bending sickle's compass = 3) subject to the whims of change
4) Edge of doom = 4) infinity 

Answers (with explanation):

Marriage: Union (A deep merging of two minds).

Time's fool: Subject to the whims of change (Time is constantly bringing change, and to be a fool of someone or something is to let that person or thing control you).

Bending sickle's compass: In its range of impact (A sickle is the symbolic weapon of death, and if you are "within its compass", it means that death is near).

Edge of doom: Infinity (Doomsday is supposed to happen at the end of time, making this a way of saying "forever" or "indefinitely").