Read the following sentence and then select the correct word to go in the blank:
it is important for people to develop skills at a young age so they can better understand the feelings of others.
a. dejected
b. perfidy
c. empathy
d. antipathy

The answer is C: empathy.

Empathy is the capacity to put yourself in somebody else´s position in order to comprehend or feel what that other person is experiencing, from that person´s perspective. Empathy covers a wide range of emotional states that go from cognition, emotion, to even corporeal or somatic feelings or sensations.  

in the sonnet 116 written by william shakespeare we can analyze the symbolism and say that he reuses the idea of love like a guiding star for the sailor.

reading through the poem we find out that in the line 7 there is a metaphor for the lover that is heading through the life events by love itself .