Shakespearean Sonnets 18, 29, 116, 130, and 5

SONNET 18: What does "Rough winds shake the darling buds of May" mean?

• strong winds destroy spring flowers

• Strong winds cannot touch the flowers

• Strong winds don't stand a chance against his love

Shakespeare says his love will live on forever in his "eternal lines." What does this mean?

• People will read about his love in his poems

• His love will die and go to heaven

• His love will fall out of line

• People will know his love because of his love's beauty

What is the metaphor in Sonnet 18?

• Comparing Shakespeare to his beloved
• Comparing his beloved to a summer's day
• Comparing Shakepeare to a summer's day
• Comparing his beloved to time

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What proof does the speaker offer for his assertion in Sonnet 18, that his Friend's "eternal summer shall not fade"?

• The friend will live in heaven.
• The speaker's love will prevent the friend from dying.
• The sonnet will immortalize the friend.
• Death will not brag after the speaker's friend dies.

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In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare does all of the following except

• compare a persona favorably to a certain moment of the year
• assure the person addressed of some sort of immortality
• pay someone some very flattering compliments
• suggest that poetry is more interesting than most people

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In effect, in Sonnet 18, Shakespeare assures the person addressed that death

• is easily avoided and defeated
• remains the enemy of seasons but not of youth
• can be defeated by literary immortality
• in a sense can be frustrated by those who die young

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SONNET 29: Lines 13 and 14, “For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings/that then I scorn to change my state with kings,” is an example of a _____________.

• stanza

• quatrain

• couplet

The TONE in Sonnet 29 would most closely be described as going from _______ to _________.

• angry to excited

• depressing to hopeful

• regretful to mournful

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The person or event that changes the tone of the speaker is when he ___________.

• thinks about the person he loves

• thinks about his dog

• thinks about his childhood

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The lines that best reflect the change in mood are lines 9 and 10, “___________________________”

• Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising/haply I think on thee, and then my state

• Desiring this man's art and that man's scope

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