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I understand.


 * __//Part One: Sonnet 18//__**

**__ Pg. 234 Questions 1-2 __** **__ Figurative Language __**
 * 1) The basic comparison made in this poem is Shakespeare’s lover/significant other being compared to the season of summer.
 * 2) The speaker is in love with the person being addressed. This is made clear through the word choice he uses. For instance, he writes “Thou art more lovely and more temperate [than a summer’s day]”. This means that he views her as a very lovely person, both inside and out, and her calm demeanor is even more pleasing than a summer’s day. The author, when focusing on the more pleasant aspects of summer, states that her “eternal summer shall not fade”, meaning that even as the season’s change, her beautiful persona does not.
 * 1) Rhyme scheme: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG.
 * 2) Similes: None.
 * 3) Metaphor: The entire poem is an extended metaphor, comparing Shakespeare’s love to the summer.
 * 4) Imagery: “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May” - This is giving the reader the image of feeling the “rough winds” and seeing them shake the plants.
 * 5) Personification: “Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines” – This is personifying the sky/sun as being the eye of heaven. It really means that the sun is really overheated and unpleasant on occasion during the summer. “Nor shall Death brag” – This is personifying Death as a person who has the ability to brag.


 * __//Part Two: Sonnet 30//__**

**__ Pg. 236 Questions 1-2 and 4-6 __** 4. The writer’s overall opinion of love is very pessimistic. It will just cause “pain and moaning for release”. However the author claims they want these memories of love, so they see it as a vital, but painful part of life. 5. I think that Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” and Millay’s “Sonnet 30” follow essentially the same structure. However, it is not entirely the same, for the last two lines of Shakespeare’s rhyme, while Millay’s follows an “ABAB” pattern the entire poem. 6. Both “Sonnet 18” and “Sonnet 30” convey attitudes about love that are still common today. Shakespeare’s is more geared towards those in love, while Millay’s is geared towards the heartbroken. “Sonnet 18” discusses how beautiful of a thing it is to be in love, and how substantial a significant other can be in one’s life. However, Millay’s discusses the pain of love, but with a twist in saying that they would not trade those feelings away. These aspects of love are still very common in today’s society, especially in high school. High school students begin to develop relationships, claiming they deeply love one another. This part of the relationship would be relevant to “Sonnet 18”. However, if the young couple breaks up, their feelings towards love could turn downward. This is even if they don’t want to forget the experiences they had within the relationship. The post-relationship aspect is relevant to “Sonnet 30”. **__ Figurative Language __**
 * 1) The line that I found most memorable from Millay’s “Sonnet 30” was, “Yet many a man is making friends with death even as I speak, for lack of love alone” These lines really stood out to me because they were making a statement that suicide is often due to lack of love. It said this through a beautiful, artistic manner that really touched me.
 * 2) When the author says “Love is not all”, she is suggesting that love cannot provide everything needed in life. While it does have some slight effect on the world, the author goes on to explain that love is not everything. Each detail that the author uses is related because it has to do with things that save people. Food/sustenance, shelter, ship poles to grasp while sinking, breath, and body injury rehabilitation are all things mentioned in the poem that love cannot do.
 * 1) Rhyme Scheme: ABAB
 * 2) Similes: None.
 * 3) Metaphor: The entire poem is a metaphor, comparing love to a variety of things, such as “meat”, “drink”, “breath”, etc.
 * 4) Imagery: “Fill the thickened lung with breath” – This is giving the reader the feeling of not being able to breath.
 * 5) Personification: “Yet many a man is making friends with death” – This is personifying death as a person, because people can have relationships with it.

**__ It is Love __** Love is not a choice, But more a desire. Love is not ice, But in the heart, a fire. Love is not pain Through its intentions. Love is not sane And can distort connections. Love does not deny Those desperate in need; Yet love crushes Thos who, on love, feed. Love is not a game But more of a fight. Love cannot create fame Or a perfect life. Love is not lost But can rarely be saved. Love has no cost But can rarely be paid. Love cannot be taught Nor can it be learned. But love can be caught And love can be yearned. Love is not strange Nor is it the norm. But by love’s strange ways, Society conforms. Love does not grow Like a weed, but like a flower. Love only shows Through divine human power. Love can cradle And cut like a knife. Thus, love can be fatal And love can be life. Love is not a foe; It is an understanding friend. But if its love you don’t show, Then your own love will end.
 * //__Part Three: Pg. 237 "Writing Options" Poem__//**