Poetry- Sonnet 116 Flashcards
Who wrote Sonnet 116
Shakespeare
Who is Sonnet 116 addressed to
A ‘fair youth’
Meter of Sonnet 116
Iambic pentameter
Rhyme of Sonnet 116
ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
Form of Sonnet 116
Shakespearean sonnet
What marks the Volta in a Shakespearean sonnet
Beginning of the couplet
What is “impediments” and “alters” reminiscent of
A marriage ceremony
How is love defined in the first quatrain
By what it is not
How is live defined in the second quatrain
By what it is
How is love defined in the third quatrain
By what it is not
What is love not
“Time’s fool”
“Love that alters”
What does Shakespeare say love is
“Ever fixed mark”
The star to every wandering barke”
How is love presented in Sonnet 116
Permanent
Immortal
Critical interpretation for Sonnet 116
Brooke- “The poem has no strangeness but the strangeness of perfection”
Marriage imagery in Sonnet 116
“Marriage of two minds”
“Alters”
“Impediments”
