A Review of

Sonnet 18
By
MOHAMMAD AIMAN NAUFAL
BIN NASRU’D-DIN (4 BETA)
Date of Assignment
15/01/2009
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 Sonnet 18 (is about the pesona beloved).

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (a) day

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.(b)
temperate
Rough wind do shake the darling buds of May, (a)
may
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:(b) date
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, (c)
shines
And often on his gold complexion dimm’d; (d) dimm’d
And every fair from fair sometime declines, (c)
declines
By chance ,or nature’s changing course ,untrimm’d;
(d)
untrimm’d
But thy eternal summer shall not fade (e) fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;( f) ow’st
Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
(e) shade
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.( f) grow’st
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, (g)
see
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. (g)
thee

A. Helping Hand
Thee/thou -
you
eye of heaven - The Sun. Art - are
Lease - time
Hath - have 3
Thy - your
 gold complexion - Sun shines .
fair from fair - Beautiful things.
untrimm’d - Nature.
his shade - Death’s shadow.
eternal lines - Line in the poem
(forever).

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Sonnet.
The sonnet is one of the poetic forms that can be found in
lyric poetry from Europe. The term "sonnet" derives from the
Occitan word sonet and the Italian word sonetto, both
meaning "little song". By the thirteenth century, it had come
to signify a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strict rhyme
scheme and specific structure. The conventions associated
with the sonnet have evolved over its history. The writers of
sonnets are sometimes referred to as "sonneteers," although
the term can be used derisively. One of the best-known
sonnet writers is Shakespeare, who wrote 154 of them. A
Shakespearean sonnet consists of 14 lines, each line
contains ten syllables, and each line is written in iambic
pentameter in which a pattern of a non-emphasized syllable
followed by an emphasized syllable is repeated five times.
The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is ABAB
CDCD EFEF GG, in which the last two lines are a rhyming
couplet.

Rhythm and Rhyme.

• Rhythm and rhyme go hand in hand.

• Rhyme is the repetition of certain sounds in words or
lines that helps to establish the rhythm in poems and
song.
• Words rhyme when they end with the same sound. For
example,light/flight,heat/beat,moon/soon all rhyme.
• Rhythm is the swing or the beat that is found in poetry
like music of a song.Imagine the ticking of a clock.This
regular beat is and example of rhythm.

Metaphor.

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 • In a metaphor, an idea, thing, phrase, etc- is
represented by something else.
• Example of eye of heaven. It represents the sun.

Multiple choice questions.

1. What does the ‘eye of heaven’ refer to?

a. the Moon
b. the Earth
c. the Sun

2. Choose the line that shows the intensity of the summer

heat?
a. Rough wind do shake the darling buds of May,
b. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
c. And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

Structured questions.

1. What is Sonnet 18 all about?

Sonnet 18 is about the Pesona Beloved.

2. Why is the Pesona Beloved not comparable to the

summer?
Pesona Beloved not comparable to the summer because
the beloved is more beautiful and more temperate than
the summer. Moreover, summer does not last very long.

3. In the Shakespeare’s sonnet will the summer ever fade?

No, the eternal summer will never fade.

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