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Sonnet 18 - PowerPoint
Sonnet 18 - PowerPoint
Sonnet 18 - PowerPoint
By William Shakespeare
The Ultimate Love poem?
SONNET
• Poetry form that began in 13th C.
Means ‘little song’ (Italian
sonnetto)
• Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets!
• Sonnet 18 is his most famous
Shakespearean sonnets:
• 14 lines
• Formed of 12 lines of ABAB/
CDCD/ EFEF ends with a
rhyming couplet GG
• iambic pentameter
Two groups of sonnets
LEFT: Shakespeare
RIGHT: Henry
Wriothesley, Earl of
Southampton.
Sonnets to the young man
• They form one of the most impressive explorations of
the themes of LOVE.
Nor shall death brag thou And you will never die
wander’st in his shade
Ex: “So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
Figures of speech
• METAPHOR: the use of a word or phrase to refer to
something that isn’t, creating a direct similarity between the
word or phrase used and the thing described.
COMMENTARY
The poet believes his beloved is as lovely as /
lovelier than a Summer’s day. This is because
sometimes summer is [select all those that apply!]
changeable/full of flowers/windy/cloudy/rainy
/wet/hot /too hot/ too short. By line 9 he is
referring to his friend as Death/Eternal Summer,
which shows he sees him as the standard of
beautiful things. He goes onto say that, unlike
the season of summer, his beloved’s beauty will
fade/die/never fade because he will live on in this
poem.