QUESTIONS ON SONNET-18
1. Who is the sonnet addressed to?
Answer: Shakespeare’s friend William Herbert, the Earl of Pembroke is addressed to in this sonnet.
2. What is the controlling simile in the poem?
Answer:Although the whole poem comes close to being an extended simile, there are no actual similes in Shakespeare's Sonnet 18. There are, however, several metaphors, comparing the short length of summer to a short-term lease on a house, the course of nature to that of a ship, and the sun to an eye and a face.
3. How can ‘eternal summer’ be maintained?
Answer:‘Eternal summer’ can be maintained in the eternal lines of poet’s poetry.
4. What does Shakespeare compare his young friend to?
Answer: Shakespeare compares his young friend to summer’s day.
5. What does rough wind shake?
Answer: Rough wind shakes the darling buds of May.
6. What shall never fade?
Answer: Shakespeare’s friend’s ‘eternal summer’ i.e. ‘eternal youth shall never fade.
7. Who is ‘I’ in the poem referred to?
Answer: In this poem, William Shakespeare is referred to ‘I’.
8. How does the complexion of the sun become gold?
Answer: The complexion of the sun becomes gold when nothing obstructs sunlight to come on earth.
9. What does Shakespeare present in the first quatrain of the poem?
Answer: In the first quatrain of Sonnet- 18, Shakespeare presents a comparison between his friend and summer’s day. Also, the poet presents the transience of natural object like May’s bud, summer’s lease that may have extraordinary beauty or pleasure.
10. What is meant by ‘summer’s lease’?
Answer:“Summer’s lease” means summer season’s validity or duration.
11. What will give life to the poet’s friend?
Answer: Eternal lines of poet’s sonnet will give life to the poet’s friend.
12. What makes every fair from fair decline?
Answer:Misfortune or nature’s changing course makes every fair from fair decline.
13. How does the poet’s friend surpass the summer day?
Answer: Poet’s friend surpasses the summer day in loveliness and constancy.
14. How does the ‘eye of heaven’ sometime shine in summer?
Answer: Here ‘eye of heaven’ means sun. When in summer, the sky is cloudless, it shines.
15. How is death personified in the poem?
Answer: In the third quatrain of the sonnet, death has been personified by saying that death will not claim or demand the poet’s friend to wander in his shade.
16. What are the shortcomings of summer?
Answer: The shortcomings of summer are—its duration is very short and it is not as beautiful as poet’s friend.
17. Why is the friend’s beauty called ‘more temperate’?
Answer: Here temperate means serious, constant. friend’s beauty is called so because it is constant as well as ever-growing whereas the beauty of summer is not constant.
18. Why does the poet begin the poem with a question?
Answer: The poet begins the poem with a question only to convince the readers that the eternal beauty of his friend is beyond comparison with the summer’s day.
Grammar Set Answer:
1. VC: Will thou/ You be compared to a summer’s day by me?
Assertive: I shall not compare thee to a summer’s day
Noun: shall I make a comparison between thee/ you and a summer’s day?
2. The darling bud of may are shaken by the rough wind.
3. Something often dims his gold complexion.
4. By chance every fair from fair is declined sometime.
5. Thou/ you shall not be bragged to wander in his shade by death.
6. Life is given to thee by this
7. Winds which are rough do shake the darling buds of May.
8. Summer is not as lovely as you.
9. But shall thy eternal summer fade?
Complex: but thy summer that is eternal shall not fade.
10. Lease that is of summer, shall not fade
11. As long as live this, this gives life to thee.
12. The poet asked if he would compare him to a summer’s day.
13. Sometimes the eye of heaven shines not without being too hot.
14. The summer that is eternal, shall not fade.
15. When in lines of eternity to time thou growst
16. To summer’s day, shall I compare thee who are more lovely and more temperate?
17. A summer’s day is not as lovely and temperate as thou art.
18. Thou shall not lose possession which is of that fair thou ow'st.
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