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2. ENGLAND
SONNET XVIII
SONNET XLIX
SONNET CXXX
SONNET CXLVI
ACTIVITIES

3. Aggravate - annoy or exasperate (someone),
especially persistently.
Complexion - The combination of hot, cold,
moist, and dry qualities held in medieval
physiology to determine the quality of a body.
Brag- a pompous or boastful statement
Ensconce- establish or settle
Allege - to bring forward as a reason or excuse
Delight - the power of affording pleasure
Utmost - the most possible
Scarcely - only just
Untrim - not made trim or neat by cutting or
clipping
Uprear - to lift up

4. Why do you think the speaker chose the
season of summer in particular? Why not
fall, winter, or spring? explain.
In your own perception, what do you think
is the message of Sonnet 49?
What does the Sonnet 146 imply?
What words does the speaker of the poem use to
describe the mistress? Do these words have a
more positive or negative connotation? Explain
your answer.

5. Born on April 26, 1564
Died on April 24, 1616
• An English poet and
dramatist.
• A master of sonnet
form, but best known
for his plays. “LOVE LOOKS NOT WITH THE
EYES, BUT WITH THE MIND,
And therefore is winged
Cupid painted blind.”

6. considered a continuation of the
sonnet tradition that swept through
the Renaissance.
14th- century - 16th- century
Time period
Where
Stylistic form:
Italy - England
• Rhyme Scheme
• 14 lines
• Meter

7. • LUST
• HOMOEROTICISM
• MISOGYNY
• INFIDELITY
• ACRIMONY

8. • constructed of three
quatrains followed by a
final couplet.
• Composed in iambic
pentameter.
• Rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD
EFEF GG
• Few exceptions : Sonnets
99, 126, and 145.

9. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his
shade,
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.

10. Against that time, if ever that time come,
When I shall see thee frown on my defects,
When as thy love hath cast his utmost sum,
Called to that audit by advis'd respects;
Against that time when thou shalt strangely
pass,
And scarcely greet me with that sun, thine eye,
When love, converted from the thing it was,
Shall reasons find of settled gravity;
Against that time do I ensconce me here,
Within the knowledge of mine own desert,
And this my hand, against my self uprear,
To guard the lawful reasons on thy part:
To leave poor me thou hast the strength of
laws,
Since why to love I can allege no cause.

11. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are
dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her
head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress
reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the
ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as
rare
As any she belied with false compare.

12. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
Fenc’d these rebel powers that thee array,
Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,
Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?
Why so large cost, having so short a lease,
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?
Shall worms, inheritors of this excess,
Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end?
Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss
And let that pine to aggravate thy store;
Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross;
Within be fed, without be rich no more.
So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on
men,
And, Death once dead, there's no more dying
then.