SONNET
18
The Marikina Valley by Fernando Amorsolo
1. What feeling does the painting give you?
2. What bit of information do you have about
Fernando Amorsolo?
3. What season of the year is depicted in the
painting?
4. What are your beautiful memories of summer?
5. Do you have sad memories of summer?
6. Other than the heat, what else do you associate
summer with?
7. Which month or months is summer in most places
in the world?
8. If you were to associate summer with a person,
Let’s Recall
1. What do you think is the poem
about?
2. What words, phrases or lines do you
remember?
3. Listening to that poem - reading,
what emotion does it give you?
Old English Pronouns
Thou = You (used as subject of the sentence)
ex: Thou art lovely.
Thee = You (used as object of the verb or
preposition)
ex: 1. I love thee.
2. I will give my heart to
.
Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to s 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
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines
And often is his gold-complexion dimmed
And every fair from fair sometimes declines
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in shade
Where in eternal lines through time thou grow’st
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see
So long lives this and this give life to thee
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.
Q 1. Identify the poetic device in the 1st line.
2. What do you think is the author’s intent in
posing this question?
3. What is the implied comparison in the first line?
4. What is the author’s concept of the person he’s
addressing in this stanza?
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
4. In your own words explain the imagery in this line.
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date
5. Explain the second line.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed
Q 6:What does eye of heaven refer to?
Q 7: What figure of speech is this?
Q 8: What do the first two lines explain about the
sun’s condition?
Q 9: Explain the third line.
Q 10. Explain the functions of fair in the 3rd line.
Q 11. What condition about beauty is implied in line
3 and 4?
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st
Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st
Q. 13 What does the phrase eternal summer refer
to?
Q. 14 What is the author saying about the person’s
beauty in the first 2 lines?
Q. 15 Explain the third line. What figure of speech is
contained?
Q. 16 What does eternal lines refer to? How could
the person being addressed grow in eternal lines?
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see
So long lives this and this gives life to thee
Q 17: How does the author conclude
his sonnet?
Q. 18 What does this refer to?
What is he promising the addressee?
Quiz
1. What is the first line of the sonnet called?
2. A person who is temperate is ______.
a. hot-tempered b. calm
3. The darling buds of May refer to ____
a. flowers b. girls c. winds
4. The eye of heaven refers to ______
a. heat b. clouds c. sun
5. Eternal lines refer to ____.
a. timeless poem b. death c. grave
6. Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade is an
example of _____ ``
a. simile b. metaphor c. personification
7. When in eternal lines to time thou growst. In this line
the poet promises the addressee that _
a. the addressee will be never be forgotten
b. the addressee will grow old.
c. the addressee will never die
8. And every fair from fair sometime declines
by chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed
In these lines the poet is referring to____
a. beautiful women b. short-lived beauty c. death
9. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
This imagery suggests ______
a. hot summer season b. stormy weather
10. Eternal summer refers to ____
a. life b. youth c. death
