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Understanding Shakespearean Sonnets

The document discusses various types of sonnets, particularly focusing on the qualities of Shakespearean sonnets, including their structure and themes of love and time. It explores the metaphor of love as a guiding star and its endurance against external forces, emphasizing the constancy of true love despite the passage of time. Additionally, it touches on the themes of mortality and the transformative nature of time in relation to beauty and love.

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Understanding Shakespearean Sonnets

The document discusses various types of sonnets, particularly focusing on the qualities of Shakespearean sonnets, including their structure and themes of love and time. It explores the metaphor of love as a guiding star and its endurance against external forces, emphasizing the constancy of true love despite the passage of time. Additionally, it touches on the themes of mortality and the transformative nature of time in relation to beauty and love.

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Sonnet 16

Types of sonnet

Petoach al | ltalian sohnet


Shakespeasean sonnet
3
Spenseriah connet
4 urtal sonnet
mitlonic sonnet
6. Jezza s Rema sonnet

qualitie of shakespearean Sonnet


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and ouplet
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Intsoduad by

Poetic term enj anbment poetic term for


ontinuation of a Sentenu phrasefrern
poetry to another.
one ine of the
the opening ine shakespeare arques tthat
In
8ue (ove (ahnot be hin dered or prevented bu
external forces Jf the love is trus then po
ctors
factors
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ohe external
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Oate

that quds pP eop


Loue pogitivey fore theer uve
through the diffiwlt pat ches ghothouse the
Afles om panng love to a Stan -Jw0 metaphtr
a
speakes ompases It to
simil au - who helped thenm
used stars against the height
sai lors
navigate theiy owh Poitioh
stass
ciffeehu de SMth withih the
e mahma
çghthouse distant_and
TQach staus heawenly
uhreachable excee ds hum ahan
highest kind of oue
The
is un fami l'a (worth
COMprehehsibh like a star (ymbol fer a
Unknown) Stars Seyve
kindet ideal peTfect Love: This siage
rea ch in a eal relationship
few might
Shakespeare here plays anthedates anueht
tra dition which dates bak to
which
philosophical
anuent Philosophe Plato. True love is
the ahd physcal
by
affe cted by pasage a 4 time
hot True wve
beaty cannot ende
ehdue test a time
foreve: Sicku ompae d
d to ole ath
to
endue
ompas used assym bol ef mortalitye
a4 human úfe which
Can be ut short unexpected y tese, time
ts sikle, much as death would it
havests youthful beauty nepresented ey
and cheeks Tíme transfozmg the
body with age ust as idele changes the
lushed qreen fild to a boreh oheate
time
inm nune to
havesting Love showd be diminish wit
It showd not test
and its sickle thoutd ende the
(onstant love 4 time i
1 e
ehdurey tiu end
does bot 90 away
death. onstant shall remaun
de ath 1t
ayte ondudes with a
b yond death/The poern Shakespeaye that
onfident dedasation by
his asgument Is true 1f ah yone proues
othe wise then the poet has hever truly
witten no one has truly
ahything and ideas of onstant
oved Shakes peaTe 's
love Soid so in cisputabla that
and
if he be been in
wDng, no ohehas ewey cannot
qeneralisation uwhich be
|ove This is a

4ne tott t wb hes

Poetic mete Iambi Pentamete


TOne igid, ideali'sti c
Theme nploes the theme of love,
beawty and the pasaqe of tinme
what is the central theme of the poem?

"Let me hot impe dim ent


with refeence to the given line
Tefeence eyplain
what the speake thin ks qbout the natue
4rue Love
Page NG
YOUVA
Date

of the phra
what is the meaning
"Loue's not Time' fool 2
mauk efeied to
what u the t ewe -fixed
in the poem

Answers

the theme of loue beauty and


A|. ’explores
the of time
passage hat ue af loue
emphasises the ight clighthou,
onstant fore quiding ch
northern
staa), quotes, fiqures of spee
in the fau aquottu
adwe (tempest ete.
ieting emotion 0r
love hot a
oL time
pasnng LoUe
unchanging, wnte about
a'kle (metaph 0T) 705s lip ahd cheeks
truu ove not subjet to the hims
fate pasing
the
eteunal, trans cen ds ile and &pace
’ the poem 's theme speaks ak a imeless
hatuy e
toue and the univesal desue
a
Tasting ahd tne aningful connetioh
with the ah otheY person

key wordy (ove wnot that altey


eves fixed mas k tempest Love's
e's not
T0me's foal sick le
maheth

published- 1623
Rehais sah (4 period
darn a
Tragrdy
(iotláhd briefly ngland in 1th
setting
centuzy
ased
holinshed hroh ides
disovers 0f withcraft
histoyof (otland
essay daemonologie
Starting - hostile weather
(foq filthy as thunder, lightning,
?reseh e of wit ches cT0a king toaty
witches deide to meat Mabeth, ihister
plan! ihtehtion 0f Ma dbeth and his wife
these in tey est n the
awdinQ

Act I Sc
Scehe I

Ex plain the thene of inver &ioh of values.


ao quotes tine 8.10, (2
what is qoo d for eweryohe is bad for
withes and uice
Teersa of noYmal moral valuer

storms in heaweh and hu ly buay ih


battlefiedd show onfuioh
’ pets (al their mistres ; hormal ufe it u
other way gound
hastbeland efes to evil com pave to
Page NG

Date

akund an u
’ intro : hostiuty. mystery, horor, ilthy air
darkness toads, witches

Act I, Scehe I

Desczibe the battle fietds ce ne as ar ated by


the Sergeant
Ans This play, Macbeth written bu wiuiam
Shakeste ae TeVolues around the theme o
t7aqedy and doama' It is Set in
Sotlahd and biefly in Englahd in the
|1th centu y 1he play iç based oh
holinshed chronides discovey of uoitch ua
history of Sotland and essey on
daemono logie the first sune, Duncan,
the king cf Sotland has 900wn old.
Two of his nobles Thane of (awdo
an d Macdoh wald hawe 7eNolted aqainst
him with the help of the king of
NoTWay Duncan Teies hewS of the
Captaih Macdonu
batt le from a
bler ding
was Slainto dea in the battle and
to CPOhent was defe ated with the help
his qenexal, Macbeth. Macbeth is
g
hailed for bdauQ8y
In the
Seond SCene, Dunan
anhouhces the exewtion of Cauwdor andThape
con fers Mabeth the title of the
cf Caw dD7. The Stene iS set in
Corres Malolm
Camp nea
king Dun can,
Don albain lenn Y with atendonts rnest
a.
blerding
when
Senqeant:
asked obout the latert nws
the 1ebelion. the Se 1qeant sSays that
both the Sdes exhausted
ate

Act I Scene I
write about the imaqeries Used by shaketh;
to cTRate an
atmo[phere of mystery and
hozo in At I,Scene I of the play
AR'S
setliteyary
pd
ting
’ hostile weather
fog
(oathesome cooaking of tod ds

filthy as
pTescenu of witches - dar kne s

in ver sion 0f movals

thunder
fair
4y uighthing
fou,foul s fau
omplete the following by givinq reasons
ln
Scene I the pl ay, the
Seoqeant told king. Duncah that the resu
o the battu was uncertaun
becawsR
2. The
as
Sergeant's
his wounds
wo ds as oorthy
becawsSe
3 Act I Scene of the
sauys what he hath lost
Play, Duncan
hath won
nobu Macbeth
becawg
4 In Sene I f the play,
NoT00eiqion 0)asdemanded
dollar6 becawg
Ang weS

In Act Sene the pl the


Sevgeant to ldking Duna) thot he esylt
the battle 3as ynertain bew 1he
{wo ides (ooked
looked (ike tu3 zh3)std
Suoimmers dinging n toqethey ond nthouah
the mnes iless Macdohwajd
by foot soldiers and c90aloy

1The Serqeant's wJods


as his ounds because he plyed
bs awe part n the bastle ond reusrsd
woundo d and also th01 he bought the
news a Macbeth's brasJ ory irn the bots

3n A I Sune 0f the pla, Gunra


what he hath bet nobls aheth
hath won becosse he
king Duncan had pohuunud his dt ath
Sentehu ahd the title
(onfuued by macbeth
4 In At 1 Sune I of the play the
No wiqian was dernanded fen thousand
becaue he wanted pes tnithon
to buy hiu men
Sonnel Revisioh
4

It is the stao to euery wandeaing bark

the poem en phasise the idea of


tlow does
as quiding foru ) iswss with
47ue fz0n the poem
to the ine above
answeo
wordr
wite
theme of love (4 lines)
poem
txplore
Sonhet (2 ine )
shakesye auean in the metapho
anhored
mostly Shakespeae uses to
setting is
and symbolisShn that

(metaphors, symbousm, iquses at


disuss Love
quotations
atleast 6 a guiding foru
spuch ) -

acts
47ue Love
c8 see king directions
tost
fo those who
are chalenges of ufe
tempests ) sto7m s ship to find its
helps the force
quiding stas guding
way
Similauly
) pes son
who is faung
úfe to a
in
challenges.
bask meaninginmp ovtane of ove
wandes ung emphakises
phasises on that ProuidLy
metap hor powesfl foru
in ives in the ever
chang!ng
p stability
directioh
wod
tbiiacles

kenang
rs

1
last
uotatisms

Tustiiy
love s (onidued

(Onstarn
{acing thailengs
Love's
time's osl
is
pass ag
the
not love
alt esation which altes
Cannot
fnde because when it
hange Onstani

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