A symbol is created when something an object has both literal and figurative meaning. A metaphor, on the other hand, has only figurative meaning, and it compares two unalike things. In this sonnet, speaker says that love, real love, is an "ever-fixed mark / That looks on tempests and is never shaken." He compares love to a lighthouse, an object that stays put and guides ships through storms and does not move, via a metaphor. Next, he says that love is "the star to every wand'ring bark," again using a metaphor, to compare love to the North Star, which seems never to move in the skies, so ships can use it to navigate. The speaker also uses a lot of personification in the poem, the attribution of human qualities to things that are not human. For example, both "Love" and "Time" are given intention; Love is described as not being "Time's fool," and both Love and Time are gendered as male.
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