EXERCISES AT PAGE 141

EXERCISE 1

PHYSICAL FEATURE	TERM OF COMPARISON	YES	NO
1)      EYES	THE SUN	X
2)      LIPS	CORAL	X
3)      BREASTS	SNOW	X
4)      HAIR	BLACK WIRES		X
5)      CHEECKS	ROSES	X
6)      BREATH	PERFUMES	X
7)      VOICE	MUSIC	X
8)      WAY OF WALKINF	A GODDESS	X

 

EXERCISE 2

1)      Divinity

2)      Beauty

3)      Purity

4)      Hamony

5)      Brightness

6)      Pleasantness

EX. 3

1)      If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun

2)      If hair be wires, black wires grow on her head.

3)      Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

EX.4

B) The lady is a real woman, not an idealised one.

EX.5

This last quatrain is the first time the speaker says something positive about his mistress.

EX.6

B) To mark his distance from traditional love sonnets reversing their conversations.

D) To oppose the idealised woman, typical of traditional sonnets, to a real woman.

F) To show how exaggerated , hyperbolic certain metaphor/similes are by reversing them.

EX. 7

1)      Quatrains

2)      Regular

3)      Conventional

4)      Parody

5)      Bright

6)      Soft

7)      Roses

8)      Angels

9)      beloved