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Understanding the text

1.

a. true

b. false. The poet thinks the stars secretly have an influence on the world.

c. false. The poet thinks the sky has an influence on plant's growth as well as it has on men.

d.  true

e. true

f. true

Closer reading

2. a. STANZA 1

Initial word: "When"               What the poet does: He considers          The object of consideration: everything that grows

STANZA 2

Initial word: "When"               What the poet does: He perceive           The object od consideration: he compares plants' and men's growth

b. Plants and men are under the same sky and stars influence. They both grow and go through the same life path. Plants and men are the same under the sky.

c. The expression "everything that grows" is metaphor of life and the world since this one is made by all the things that are alive. This expression is totalizing since it is universal and involeves every living thing.

3.a. Then. Its function is introducing the turning point. After the previous consideration the poets goes back to the concrete meaning he wants to discuss.

b. The pronoun "you"

b. The pronoun "you" narrows the view on a precise subject related to the poet. The poet's "you" is the "fair youth", shakespear's W.H., one of his most recurrent subjects in his is sonnets.

c. The poet's beloved one youth is particularly precious since it has an end. His youth will end and so will do the beauty of it, based on the poet's view.

d. night

4.

love, 

fights

time

youth

beloved

life

poem

5.a.men and plants-----comparison

sap---------- metaphor

b. sap and engraft

Sap is what keeps alive the plant and gives it sustainment as well as blood to men.

The poet engraft his beloved's youth with poetry as you can do to a plant to renew it and keep it alive.

6. Rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Opening words: When When Then And

The poets consideration: 

All living things grow and decline; life is transient and ephemeral like plants die after they grow.

Men and plants share the same sap, sky and stars.

Therefore, considering men, the beloved will lose his youth and the beauty of it.

And the poet renew his youth by writing about him in poems.

7. The world is a melting pot. Life is like comet's light in the sky.