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Exercise #6: Applying Poetry Literary Devices __Rhyme Scheme__- ABAB __Similes__- none __Metaphors__- “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” “Thou art more lovely and more temperate”. __Personification__- “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May”. “Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines”. “Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade”. __Imagery__- “Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines”. “And often is his gold complexion dimmed”. __Rhyme Scheme-__ ABAB __Similes-__ none __Metaphors-__ “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” __Personification-__ “Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath”. “Nor clean the blood, nore set the fractured bone”. “Pinned down by pain and moaning for release”. __Imagery__- “Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath”. “”Pinned down by pain and moaning for release”. 4. The speakers overall opinion of love is that it is not the only thing that is important in life, but it is a very important thing. 5. I do think that Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” and Millay’s “Sonnet 30” follow the same structure because they both have the same rhyme scheme and are both 15 lines long. 6. I think that these poems do convey attitudes about love that are still common today. I think this because while many things have evolved and changed over the last couple of centuries, people’s feelings of love have never changed and never will.
 * __ Sonnet 18 __**
 * 1) The basic comparison that is made in this poem is comparing a person to a summer day.
 * 2) The words that I would use to describe how the speaker feels about the person being addressed is very loving and caring for that person. The last two lines of the poem express that the person being described gives life to the speaker when it says “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
 * __ Sonnet 30 __**
 * 1) The lines of Millay’s “Sonnet 30” that I find most memorable are lines 12-15. I think this because these lines say how that the speakers love for the person is so strong that he can not stand it and might trade the memories away, but he doesn’t think he will.
 * 2) What all the details the speaker uses to explain why “Love is not all” have in common is that they all describe things a person needs to survive.