Sonnet 97

Question 1

Life William Shakespeare

Answer 1

• English playwright, poet and actor
• Born 1564 Stratford-Upon-Avon
• Started to write when theatre was in its early years
• Wrote during 16th century and the early 17th century

Question 2

Influences

Answer 2

• Shakespearian sonnet –> influenced Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard Earl
• Iambic Pentameter –> got from Christopher Marlowe who was a predominant playwright
• -> Wrote Tragical History of Dr.Faustus

Question 3

Themes

Answer 3

Comedy: Comedy of Errors, Midsummer’s Nights Dream
Tragedy: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth
History: Henry VI

Question 4

Verse Form

Answer 4

Shakesperean Sonnet –> 3 quartains and couplet
–> each a changing season
Rhyme Scheme –> ababcdcd

Question 5

Metre

Answer 5

Iambic Pentameter –> copying the sound of a heartbeat

Question 6

Stress

Answer 6

‘dark days’ alliteration –> emphasies abscence of happiness

Question 7

Volume

Answer 7

Relatively low –> although angry at certain point in contrasts Dulce et Decorum Est
–> emptiness and absence

Question 8

Pace

Answer 8

Slow –> almost as if they had thought about it for a long time

Question 9

Inflection

Answer 9

‘unfather’d fruit’ –> statement

Question 10

Tone Colour

Answer 10

‘widowed wombs after their lords deceased’ visceral image of emptiness