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Sonnet 18 1. Analysis: The rhyme scheme of the poem is abab, cdcd, efef and gg. There are no similes. One of the metaphors are “thee to a summer day”- which is comparing a man to summer, and the poem is about comparing love to summer. The summer day is being shown through imagery as being beautiful like love, and the rough winds are showing imagery of when love gets tough. One of the personifications in the sonnet is when it says “death can brag” which gives personification to death being able to brag. Questions 1. The basic comparison that is made in this sonnet is between a girl and the summer day. 2. The speaker loves the girl that he is speaking about because he says things such as “thou art more lovely and more temperate” and “nature’s changing course untrimmed”. The speaker loves the girl.

Sonnet 30 2. The rhyme scheme is abab. Again, there are no similes. The sonnet compares how love is not like meat and drinks, the whole poem is a metaphor. “Fill the thickened lung with breath” is an example of imagery because it is saying that the lung can now breathe. One example of personification is when it says “Yet many a man is making friends with death” which is giving death the ability to make friends. Questions 1. “And rise and sink and rise and sink again” was the line that caught my attention because it clearly gives a good outlook on how love has its stages of good times, and its stages of problems. 2. When the author says “Love is not all”, she means that people can not survive off of only love. In life, you need more than love. 4. The author explains how love can be painful, yet beautiful, so in my opinion the author’s view of love is confusing. 5. Both of the two Sonnets have almost the same structure. Millay’s sonnet follows abab, unlike Shakespeare’s. 6. I strongly believe that “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 30” have attitudes about love that are very common today because they both talk about how love can be beautiful and painful. “Sonnet 30” more so focuses on the painful and bad parts of love, and “Sonnet 18” focuses more on how love is great, and it is worth it. Both of the poems talk about how at points, love can be one of the most beautiful things you’ve ever seen, and at other times it can be one of the most heartbreaking things you will ever experience.