Sonnet 94 Annotations

Theme: The people who

U / U / U / U / U / are gifted are not always
The use of strong, charged superior; they wield
diction through this word They that have pow'r to hurt, and will do none, A
immense power and have the
shows that Shakespeare U / U / U / U / U / force to control others, yet
wanted the idea of power they are the people who
That do not do the thing they most do show, B
and powerful people to succumb to pride with the
stand out in the poem, as a U / U / U / U / U / most ease.
main theme/idea.
Who moving others are themselves as stone, A
The poem shifts in these lines, Problem: In these lines,
and starts stating the more U / U / U / U / U / people who have power in
positive parts of success, Unmovd, cold, and to temptation slow, B society are seen as superior,
when before, the negative and the poet, who represents
parts were stated. This could U / U / U/ U / U / U the normal people in
show a shift in speakers/ideas. They rightly do inherit heavens graces, C society, despises these
powerful people.
U / U / U / U / U/
Development: D
And husband natures riches from expense. The poet uses this
As the sonnet shifts from
metaphor to show the
literal to figurative U / U / U / U / U / enormity of how far
writing, the poet uses
They are the lords and owners of their faces; C apart these people of
analogy to make a
excellence are on
statement. The powerful U / U / U / U / U / the social hierarchy
figure who is seen as a
Others but stewards of their excellence. D compared to normal
king can be corrupted,
people. By doing so,
leaving an ordinary man U / U / U/ U / U / he sets up for a great
morally superior.
The summers flow'r is to the summer sweet, E contrast later on in
the poem, when he
This analogy uses U / U / U /U / U / says that morally,
descriptive imagery to Though to itself it only live and die. F these normal people
compare the idea of are better than those
humility vs pride to a U / U / U / U/ U / who boast.
weed vs an infected But if that flow'r with base infection meet, E
flower. Throught this Solution: In the final
comparison, Shakespeare U / U / U / U / U/
lines, the poet makes the
makes a point on the idea The basest weed outbraves his dignity. F statement that ultimately,
that true beauty lies in those normal people who
simplicity. A person may U / U / U / U / U / are good on the inside
be normal, but when he For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; G are much better than the
is compared to a people regarded as
superstar that boasts, he U / U / / U / U / successful but have been
is on a higher level Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. G consumed by pride.
morally.

Festering is a symbol The weeds in this line are the

Lilies, a beautiful of the greed, pride, and normal people, who, though
flower, represent boastfulness than can they are not special, have
those that are sometimes affect these strong morals and are good at
higher up in successful people. heart.
society.