Sonnet 116 Flashcards
1
Q
Who is the poet?
A
William Shakespeare
2
Q
What period is the poem from?
A
The Elizabethan era
3
Q
What form is the poem in?
A
A sonnet
4
Q
“Let me not to the marriage of…
A
…true mindes”
5
Q
“It is an ever…
A
…fixed marke”
6
Q
What kind of metaphor is used?
A
A nautical metaphor
7
Q
“Lookes on tempests…
A
…is never shaken”
8
Q
“It is the star to…
A
…every wandring barke”
9
Q
What is personified in the poem?
A
Time
10
Q
“Lov’s not Times…
A
…fool”
11
Q
What is the first quatrain about?
A
What love is not
12
Q
What is the second quatrain about?
A
The nautical metaphor and what love is
13
Q
What is the third quatrain about?
A
Death
14
Q
Why is there no volta in the poem?
A
Because the love is constant and unchanged
15
Q
“Whose worths unknown…
A
…although his higth be taken”
