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| Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer`s Day |
| 作者Author / William Shakespeare 威廉．莎士比亞 |
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Study
Questions
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Shall I Compare Thee to
a Summer's Day
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| Group Discussion and Journal
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- This poem
is an extended comparison between the speaker's lover and a summer's
day. According to the first two lines,
how is the speaker's lover UNLIKE a summer's day?
- Lines
three through eight point out a number of negative
characteristics of summer. Identify them.
- Lines
nine through fourteen offer a view of the lover's many
contrasts with nature. How is she better than a summer's day?
- What will
keep her young forever? What does this poem suggest about the value of
art?
- Identify
the metaphors, personification, and hyperbole
in this sonnet.
- Try to
feel and describe the effects pf spondaic (double stress) rhythm in
line 3, as opposed to the predominantly iambic rhythm in other lines,
esp. ll. 4, 7-8 and 13-14..
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| Application and Wild Association
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- Using your
handbook to help you, describe the difference between a
Shakespearean sonnet and a Petrarchan
sonnet. Compare and contrast this sonnet with one of the
Petrarchan sonnets we have already read.
- Compare and
contrast the view of art in this poem
with the views expressed in "Ozymandias" and "Ode on a Grecian
Urn." Also, you can compare the way the lady is
praised in this poem with that of "She Walks in Beauty," "On Stella's
Birthday" and "To His Coy Mistress."
- If you were
going to write a poem, what would you compare your lover to?
- What do you
think about the following parody of Shakespeare's sonnet 18?
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