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1. Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” features an abab rhyme scheme. The poem compares a person to a summer’s day using many forms of figurative language. A metaphor included is, “By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade,” meaning that the person’s outside beauty may fade, but internal beauty stays forever. Rough winds shaking buds, the sun shining hot, and shade are examples of sight and touch imagery. Heaven is personified with its gold eye (the sun) dimming, and shade is personified as Death’s place to prevent the sun. Page 234: 1. The love of Shakespeare’s life is being compared to a summer’s day, the two most beautiful things he can think of. 2. The speaker feels that his love is beautiful and joyful. He describes his love as beautiful by saying that they are, “more lovely and more temperate” than a summer’s day. He shows that his love is joyful by saying their “eternal summer shall not fade,” meaning they will always have joy inside of them. Summer goes away, but the beauty and joy of the speaker’s love does not. 2. Millay’s “Sonnet 30” features an abab rhyme scheme. The poem is explaining that love is not a necessity for life, even though many people think it is. The necessities of life featured in the poem are metaphors, such as: meat, drink, slumber, a roof against rain, a floating spar to men that sink, breath to a lung, clean blood, healthy bones, and food. Imagery appealing to all five senses is included in the poem. Sound imagery is the speaker “moaning for release,” touch imagery is pain, taste imagery is meat and a drink, smell imagery is the food, and sight imagery applies to all of the metaphors. Love is personified as the opposite of a lifesaver, as it is not any of life’s necessities featured in the poem. p. 236: 1. The lines of the poem that I find most memorable are “I might be driven to sell your love for peace, or trade the memory of this night for food. It well may be. I do not think I would.” I find these lines most memorable because they contradict everything that the speaker previously mentioned. The author wants love more than necessities for life, even though they say love is not a necessity for their own life. 2. All of the details in the poem that do not comply with love are examples of life’s necessities. A person can live without love, but cannot live without food, water, breathing, and clean blood. 4. The speaker views love as a want more than a necessity. However, they sometimes want love more than life’s necessities as shown in the last lines, “or trade the memory of this night for food. It well may be. I do not think I would.” 5. “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 30” follow the same structure. Both poems have an abab rhyme scheme, and they have iambic pentameter. 6. I think that both poems still convey common attitudes toward love. Shakespeare stresses how his love is beautiful, which is something many consider in finding love. Millay shows how people focus on finding love over life’s biggest moments. People still view love as a must, even though it is not needed.
 * Millay says that love is not a necessity for living and uses many examples to prove that point.
 * In lines 7-8, Millay is saying that a man misses out on life’s necessities by going after love.

3. Home Home is where the fun occurs, And where it stays for days. Home is the place where family comes first, The rule that always stays. The hard times and the bad ones, Are always ended here. Laughter from jokes and giggles from puns, Add to the overall cheer. The nights are soft and calm, As the children fall asleep. Morning wakes up Dad and Mom, Rest they cannot seem to keep. Throughout the days, months, and years: one thing stays the same, Home is where the love is, and that will never change.