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BSED-III
I. AUTHOR’S BACKGROUND
William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor. He was born on
April 26, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He died on April 23, 1616, at the age of 52. His
father was a successful local business man and his mother was the daughter of a landowner.
Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway at the age of 18. She was eight years older than him.
They had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. He is widely regarded as the
greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often
called England’s national poet and nicknamed the Bard of Avon. Shakespeare produced most
of his known work between 1589 and 1613. He wrote about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long
narrative poems, and a few other verses.
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Much Ado About Nothing
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Sonnets
The Tempest
II. VOCABULARIES
Hideous –ugly or disgusting to look at.
Sable – of the color black, dark or gloomy.
Prime – the period of perfection.
Lofty – rising to a great height or very tall.
Barren – not producing or not productive.
Erst – long ago or formerly.
Girded – to prepare (oneself) for action.
Sheaves – a bundle of objects of one kind.
Borne – carried or transported by the thing specified.
Bier – a frame on which a dead body is carried before a funeral.
Bristly – covered with short, stiff hairs.
Forsake – to give up or leave entirely.
Scythe – to move very quickly through s group of people or things.
III. DISCUSSION (POEM)
Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tell the time
by William Shakespeare
IV. LESSON
Sonnet 12 implicitly suggests that, although putting on a brave face when confronted with
death won’t save you from him, any more than the ‘day’ or sun was kept in the sky when night
came on, you will, in a sense, ‘rise again’ as the sun does, through your children
Time is omnipresent in everyone’s life, just passing and passing inexorably, relentlessly, so
unstoppable. It is a universal problem: people have always been very worried about time, trying
to gain some, or angry that they have lost this precious element.