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WorksheetsSonnet 5
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Most of the time, where is the theme of a sonnet revealed?
1st stanza
First two lines
Lines 10 and 11
The last two lines
Which of the following best summarizes Stanza 1 of Sonnet 5?
Time will eventually take your beauty
People will fight for love
The seasons are inevitable
It's not fair that you are so beautiful
PART A: What is the meaning of the phrase "unfair which fairly doth excel" as it is used in Shakespeare's Sonnet 5.
to cause to dissapear
to destroy out of malice or spite
to treat without justice or reason
to make ugly what was once attractive
PART B: What line from the poem provides the best support for PART A?
"The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell" (line 2)
"For never-resting time leads summer on " (line 5)
"Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft" (line 11)
"But flowers distill'd, though they with winter meet (Line 13)
What metaphor is employed in the second stanza?
Seasons = aging
Time = beauty
Nature = Life
Summer=Winter
How does the word "prisoner" impact the meaning of line 10?
It advances a negative connotation
It implies that beauty is a positive thing
It suggests that summer committed a crime
It shows that the speaker has been jailed and misses his love
Based on the context, what is a likely definition of "leese" as it is used in line 14?
Borrow
Lose
Like
Least
PART A: Which statement best illustrates an overall theme from Shakespeare's Sonnet 5?
Despite apparent loss, the essence of beauty transcends superficial changes.
Not even beauty can resist the damaging effects of the passage of time.
The fact that all things eventually perish is the source of the beauty of the present.
Because time changes all things, one must consider what the future might bring.
PART B: Which lines from the poem provide the best support for the answer to PART A?
"Those hours, that with gentle work did frame/The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell,/ Will play the tyrants to the very same" (Lines 1-3)
"For never-resting time leads summer on/To hideous winter, and confounds him there" (Lines 5-6)
"Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness everywhere:/Then were not summer's distillation left/A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass" (lines 8-10)
"But flowers distill'd, though they with winter meet,/Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet (Lines 13-14)
Both sonnets explore all of the following topics EXCEPT -
Beauty
Death
Perseverance
Immortality
