SONNET 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
1 - The subject of "Sonnet 18" has been immortalized by:
a - the speaker's love.
b - the children they have had.
c - the sonnet.
d - his memories.
2 - The purpose of a couplet in a Shakespearean sonnet is to:
a - set the tone.
b - conclude and highlight meaning.
c - Both.
Thx!
2007-03-13 18:05:09 · 5 answers · asked by US Cutie 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I've had this poem memorized for a very long time--and that's no coincidence.
The answer to 1 is c.
The ending couplet goes "So long as men can breathe or eyes can see / So long lives THIS and THIS gives life to thee."
THIS is the sonnet itself. As long as people are breathing and can see, they can read this poem; and as long as people can read this poem, its subject still lives.
The answer to 2 is b.
The purpose of the poem is for the poet to show how undying and eternal his love is.
You might want to compare this couplet with sonnet 116's--
"If this be error and upon me proved / I never writ nor no man ever loved."
2007-03-14 12:17:45 · answer #1 · answered by herr_flipowitz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-01 23:31:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will go with A and C. I think all of his sonnets are immortalized by the speaker's love. That's why they're called love sonnets. Are you aware the early sonnets were written to a man? Hmmmm...
2007-03-13 18:34:54 · answer #3 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
# 1- i have no idea
# 2 - C.
2007-03-13 18:45:19 · answer #4 · answered by !~*~!*!~*~! 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The first question would be 'd': his memories and the second question is 'c': both.
2007-03-13 18:15:05 · answer #5 · answered by Rocky R 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋