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=**Sonnet 18**=

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 owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

__Rhyme Scheme__: abab, cdcd, efef, gg __Simile__: __Metaphors__: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”- Shakespeare is comparing someone to a summer’s day __Imagery__: “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May”- The wind is blowing so hard it shakes the flowers. The writer describes how the rough wind shakes the plants and this gives the reader an image. __Personification__: “ Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade”- Death is being personified in this line by given a characteristic like braging to bring people to death.

__Questions__ 1. The basic comparison made in this poem was the season of summer compared to the writer’s love. 2. The speaker feels very passionate about the person being addressed in the novel because he compares the person to a beautiful summer’s day. The speaker loves spending time with this person and really cares. “ But thy eternal summer shall not fade”, this means they always want to be together forever.

=Sonnet 30=

Love is not all: It is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain, Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink and rise and sink and rise and sink again. Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death even as I speak, for lack of love alone. It well may be that in a difficult hour, pinned down by need and moaning for release or nagged by want past resolution's power, I might be driven to sell your love for peace, Or trade the memory of this night for food. It may well be. I do not think I would.

__Rhyme Scheme__: abab, cdcd, efef, gh __Simile__: __Metaphor__: In this poem the writer is comparing love to meat and a drink. “It is not meat nor drink” This means that love is not everything someone needs to live, like food and drink which we need to survive. __Imagery__: “Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone” The reader can visualize unclean blood and a broken bone, something that love can not repair according to the poem. __Personification__: “or nagged by want past resolution's power” Love is being personified because it is given the characteristics to nag.

__Questions__:

1. Line five, “Love cannot fill the thickened lung with breath” is the most memorable line because I can understand the writer’s perspective of love and how it is un needed for someone to live. In this line it means that love can not bring life into lungs but breath does. The reader can also get a good image of lungs with breath in them. 2. The details used to show how “Love is not all” because love is compared to similar things in life we need everyday such as food, drink and breath, these are things we need to survive. 3. The statement in the poem’s first line helped to understand the sonnet’s structure because it clearly states “Love is not all”. 4. The speaker’s overall opinion about love seems to be unwanted. No one needs love to live their lives like we need breath in our lungs.

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