Sonnet 18 - William Shakespeare

Question 1

What do you like about the poem?

Answer 1

• Double meaning (romantic & arregants)
• Comparison (comparing beauty to nature)
• Natural imagery

Question 2

Theme of love - quotes

Answer 2

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” - ❤️🌳
“Thou art more lovely and more temperate:” - ❤️
- uses repetition - “more lovely and more temperate” - emphasis how much more beautiful lover is then summer - uses summer to describe lover - goes on to say lover is more beautiful - starts with (sutle) rhetorical question spends whole poem answering it.

Question 3

Sonnet (definition)

Answer 3

3 quatrains + a rhyming couplet

Question 4

3 quotes (weather & time)

Answer 4

“And every fair from fair sometimes Declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,” - 🌳🕔 - time weathers us all but your beauty will last forever- comparing beauty to summer fading away.

Question 5

Ending

Answer 5

“When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
- 🕔 - end rhythm- form of sonnet - 3 quadrant of a,b,a,b followed by rhyming couplet = a triumphant end - rhyming couplet gives sense of closure - pleasant rhythm echoes the pleasant summer.

Question 6

Tone of poem

Answer 6

Loving/carefree/arrogant tone.

Question 7

Language (rhythm)

Answer 7

“As long lives this and this gives life to thee.” - adds rhythm, pleasant sound echoes the pleasant summer.
Starts with rhetorical question- spend whole time explaining it.
“Nor shall death brag” - uses “brag” to bring attention to his own arrogance.