In “Like as the Waves”, time was the main theme and its purpose was to convey how time affects age. Time is personified and Shakespeare treated it as something inevitable. He describes time as someone “mowing” with “his scythe” and making a woman appear older as youth passes. Time “digs into the parallels of the beauty groove” means that wrinkles on a face show that someone is aging. It is true that people age and that time passes and is inevitable. You can't stop time and stay young with youth forever. Yet, in the couplets in which time and its “cruel hand” are described, Shakespeare's love does not change despite the years that are seen. When someone's life "diminishes" in the sonnet "Shall I compare thee to thee", the lover says to his beloved "Thy eternal summer shall not fade" (line 9), which means that he will think of his handsome and young lover forever , showing us the dedication of his love. Beauty and youth between lovers transcends the passage of time and this is how people can love each other