EX 1
a. Probably the pronoun “thee” referes to his beloved.
b. The poet compares a summer’s day with his beloved.
c. 1. Summer is perturbed by rough winds that shakes the darling buds of May.
2. Summer is too hot.
3. Summer is too short.
4. Summer’s beauty fades away.
d. Because her beauty doesn’t fade away.
e. What makes the lover eternal is her description in this lines.
EX 2
a. Yes, there is a symmetry, the first word of the second and the third lines of both stanzas are repeteted “and...and” and “nor...nor”.
b. The subjects are his lover and the summer.
c. The liker that marks the passage from one subject to the other is “but”.
EX 3
a. “eye of heaven”: this metaphor stands for the sun.
“thy eternal summer” : this methapor stands for the beauty lover
EX 4
“eye of heaven” is personified by giving to it somenthing human: “lose possession”
“death” is personified by giving to it somenthing human: “ shall...brag” and by the use of the capital letter.
EX 5
“eternal summer” stands for the her beauty.
“eternal lines” stands for poetry.
EX 6
As long as [1] people have eyes to [2] read this poem (that is, to the [3] end of the world), this [4] poem will exist making the poet’s love [5] eternal.
EX 7
Quatrain 1:
- rhyme scheme: A B A B
- figures of speech: allteration, consonance and assonance
- sentence structure: Question and answers.
- subject matter: comparison between his lover and summer.
Quatrain 2:
- rhyme scheme: C D C D
- figures of speech: allteration, consonance, metaphor and assonance
- sentence structure: main clause, sentences connected with conjunctions
- subject matter: the characteristics of summer
Quatrain 3:
- rhyme scheme: E F E F
- figures of speech: allteration, consonance and assonance
- sentence structure: “but” introduced another subject, coordinated sentences , time clause
- subject matter: the young lover’s characteristics
Couplet :
- rhyme scheme: G G
- figures of speech: metaphor
- sentence structure: sentences of comparing
- subject matter: poetry will make his love eternal.
EX 8
In Greek mythology, Endimion asked Zeus for eternal youth.
Aphrodite is the Goddess of the eternal beauty.
