Activities page 195

EX. 1

A)     The expressions the poet uses to address the Sun are negative: “busy old fool, unrly…”, “saucy pedantic wretch…”.

1. B

2. D

3. C

 4. A

C) The Sun must leave the lovers alone because love doesn’t know any time, season, day time…

EX 2

A) The poet can eclipse the power of the Sun by only closing his eyes but he doesn’t want that because he wouldn’t see his beloved anymore.

B)“if her eyes have not blinded thine, look, and to-morrow late tell me, whether both th’ Indias of spice and mine be where thou left’st them, or lie here with me”.

C)He refers to the rarity of the woman and her nobility by comparing her with exotic images and rare treasures.

EX 3

A)

“She” is the beloved woman refered as all state.

 “I” is the poet figured as all princes.

We are happy the double of you.

All the rest is nothing in fact princes are only mime honour is mimic and wealth is alchemy.

If the Sun shine he brings light and warmth to the whole world.

B)  

1. pitful

EX 5

It's a personification.

EX 6

The mood is more peaceful because it is used to refer to the lovers.

EX 7

1. Personified
2. Lovers
3. Seasons
4. Closing
5. Brighter
6. Knowledge
7. States
8. World
9. Bed
10. Metaphysical

EX.8 

Starting from the layout, the poem is organized in three rooms, of ten lines each. The rhyming scheme is ABBA

(rhyme included), then CDCD (alternative rhyme) and finally EE (rhyming couplet). The meter and rhyme pattern are regular, but there is no specific name for this form of poetry. The three stanzas consist of three lines of four syllables (lines 1, 5 and 6), one line of two syllables (2) and six lines of five syllables (3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 10). In all lines the stress pattern is iambic.

The speaking voice makes great use of rhetorical figures. From the first verse the speaking voice uses a personification to refer to the Sun. This attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects continues throughout the poem. Another rhetorical figure is the apostrophe: in verses three and for the first verse and in the first and second lines of the second, the speaking voice addresses its questions (rhetorical questions, because they have not been answered) to the Sun, an inanimate thing .

In line 8 of the first verse the speaking voice calls the farmer "ants", this is a metaphor (a substitution of a proper term with a figurative one); perhaps it does so to emphasize the productivity of the peasants.

In the second verse, on line 13: "I could eclipse them and cloud them with a wink" is a hyperbole, a figure of speech that alters the quantity to emphasize the meaning of the concept.

Throughout the poem there is the climax, which he belittles by adding some talking voice and the love of his lover.