SONET 116 Flashcards
1
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Form?
A
Sonnet (14 lines)
2
Q
Meter?
A
Iambic pentameter - unchanging nature of love - represents a heart beat (conversational)
3
Q
‘let me not’
A
Negative start (structure)
4
Q
Themes
A
love
5
Q
‘marriage of true minds’
A
Alliteration
Emphasises marriage and minds
6
Q
‘minds admit impediments’
A
Enjambment
Physically distances marriage and impediments on two different lines
7
Q
‘alters’
A
Negative
8
Q
‘tempests… star… wandering… compass’
A
Semantic field and extended metaphor of navigation
9
Q
‘to the edge of doom’
A
Ambiguous
When does love end?
Day of judgement? or End of life itself?
10
Q
What is it about?
A
True love doesn’t go away even if the beloved dies or leaves them or changes
11
Q
context behind Shakespeares sexuality
A
- suggesting that if you are in love nothing else should matter eg legal men and women
- ## at his time gay marriage was illegal
