1.
Give significant
background information about the author or the literary piece
Answer:
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was born at
Stratford-upon-Avon in a house in Henley Street. This is preserved intact. His
mother, Mary Arden, was one of the daughters of Robert Arden, a yeoman farmer
of Wilmcote: his father, John Shakespeare, was a glover and wool dealer of good
standing who held the office of Bailiff of the Borough in 1568.
From the age of seven to about 14, he attended
Stratford Grammar School receiving an excellent well rounded education. At the
age of 18 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, who was seven years his senior and
three months pregnant. She was of 'yeoman' stock - her family owned a farm one
mile west of Stratford in Shottery. He endured her until he could stand it no
longer and fled to London to become an actor. He then became actor-manager and
part-owner in the Blackfriars and afterwards the Globe Theatres.
Shakespeare's acting career was spent with the Lord Chamberlain's
Company, where he was a first-rate actor. The company was renamed the King's
Company in 1603 when James succeeded to the throne. Among the actors in the
group was the famous Richard Burbage. The partnership acquired interests in two
theatres in the Southwark area of London, near the banks of the Thames - the
Globe and the Blackfriars.
Shakespeare returned to Stratford for his latter years where he
died at the age of 52 and now lies at rest in his special grave at Holy Trinity
Church.
2.
Write the
synopsis or summary of the literary text
Answer:
In Sonnet
18, the speaker compares his beloved to a summer's day and then elaborates on
how his beloved is superior to it. His first response to the comparison is to
say of his beloved, "Thou art more lovely and more temperate." Temperate
means moderate and less erratic. A summer's day (or summer itself), on the
other hand can be too hot, overcast.
the speaker then explains that his beloved's loveliness
"outshines" or outlasts the summer loveliness. Here, loveliness can
mean beauty, personality, spirit, etc. Summer and the seasons are subject to
the change of time. When he says, "thy eternal summer shall not
fade," and that Death can not shade her loveliness, the speaker implies
that his beloved's loveliness is eternal. Here, the speaker denotes a
metaphysical aspect to her loveliness as if, even in her death, the spirit of
her loveliness lives on. But in the final lines of the sonnet, it is clear that
the sonnet itself is how her beauty will live on, beyond the changing seasons and
beyond her own death. "So long lives this, and this gives life to
thee." "This" is the sonnet. In expressing strong feelings for
his beloved, the speaker praises her eternal loveliness, immortalized in the
sonnet itself.
3.
Jot down three
questions that come to mind while reading the text, then choose one explore it
more fully
Answer:
1.
According to the
speaker, what "shall not fade" in his beloved?
2.
What do you think
is the theme of Shakespeare's sonnet, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's
day?"
3.
From your reading
of the poem, do you think that the speaker is only praising his beloved's
physical beauty? Why or why not?
In this journal I would like to answer
question number 2. In my opinion, this poem is mostly about how great he thinks
his poetry is. People usually think it's about the woman he's talking
about, but I think is just as much about the poetry. After all, what is
it that gives life to her, that makes her immortal? It is the fact that
he has written this poem about her. So it's his poetry, not something
about her, that is going to make her immortal.
Other than that, I would just say that
I really like the poem. I think his way of comparing her to the summer's
day and all the things he says about how she is better are quite clever.
4.
Explain the
emotion that literary text work in you or which you felt while or after reading
the peace.
Answer:
The emotion
of William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 is simultaneously admiring and boastful. In
the poem Shakespeare compares his love to a summer's day but suggests that all
the features of nature are too inconstant. Shakespeare suggests her beauty can
live forever in the poem he writes for her, which will outlast even death. The
result of the poem is a sense of optimism that a person's legacy can live on
beyond their death.
5.
Copy a part of
literary text (sentence, paragraph, dialogue) which struck you most something
you find beautiful, enlightening and discuss why?
Answer:
The thing
that I found beautiful is on the second and third line of sentence
thou art more lovely and more temperate (2nd
line). Here more temperate means less extreme. Shakespeare goes on to say that
"rough winds do shake the darling buds of May (3rd line)"
and that "sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines" (sometimes the
sun is too hot).
He's saying
that the woman he's writing to has an even temperament, and isn't changeable in
the way that summer can be.
6.
Identify the
theme of literary piece and discuss it in the light of drama or poem
Answer:
The theme of this poem is immortalizing beauty and love which is
reflected by the persona’s thoughts, ideas &; feelings,
captured magically and embodied in the sonnet, revealing his beloved’s internal
beauty which is everlasting as long as people kept on reading it with
appreciation.
7.
Write the
critique of the works using an appropriate literary approach or theory
Answer:
There
are some of the literary approaches to criticize this poem, and I will discuss
it from moral approach. The poem deals with eternal love and appreciation of a
beautiful person. We learn to appreciate nature, as nature has both its strong
and weak points. The poem reminds us that there is nothing that would
last forever. The beautiful person that is compared to summer is said to last
forever, as long as men read and appreciate the poem. The poet teaches us to
appreciate poetry to understand the messages that the poet wishes to convey to
the readers. The poem also teaches us to think about life and death. Life
is a mystery to be lived, while death ends everything. But the beauty of the
persona’s beloved lives forever and there is no death for her. The poem acts as
a document of history which keeps the persona’s love alive over periods of
time, and allows his beloved to live forever. She becomes immortal and her
eternal summer lasts forever.
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