1. What are some of the literary devices (analogies, alliteration, personification, assonance, consonance, hyperbole, cacophony, metaphor, etc.) Shakespeare employs?

2. What are the tonetone and the moodmood of this piece? What literary devices does Shakespeare employ to establish them?

3. Where is the voltavolta of this sonnet?

4. What does it all add up to? Translation: What is the themetheme of the sonnet?

Today’s Questions to Consider…Today’s Questions to Consider…

By William Shakespeare

Sonnet CXVISonnet CXVI

Shakespeare’s definition of love Shakespeare’s definition of love by studying the figurative by studying the figurative

language and the analogies language and the analogies Sonnet CXVI presents.Sonnet CXVI presents.

Today We Will Focus On:Today We Will Focus On:

Line 4] removerremover: the one who departs from love.5] a sea marka sea mark, a prominent navigational feature, a

beacon, for guidance of shipping. In the days before lighthouses, mariners used well known and prominent features on the land as a guide to fix their position at sea.

8] worth's unknownworth's unknown: man cannot grasp the star's heavenly worth and astrological influence, although its angle of elevation above the horizon could be measured.

10] his bending sickle's compass: Time or Death’s sickle’s path. Sickle=

12] edge of doomedge of doom: the brink of Doomsday.

Terms That May be Unfamiliar to YouTerms That May be Unfamiliar to You

1 Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:

5 O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

9 Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

13    If this be error and upon me proved,   I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Do we need to translate the sonnet or any portion of it Do we need to translate the sonnet or any portion of it before you answer questions?before you answer questions?

Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:

Stanza One

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O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

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Stanza TwoStanza Two

Can you identify the consonance and assonance Can you identify the consonance and assonance in this stanza? What is the effect on the tone?in this stanza? What is the effect on the tone?

Characterize the analogy Shakespeare is setting Characterize the analogy Shakespeare is setting up in this quatrain. What is the effect of the up in this quatrain. What is the effect of the punctuation in these lines?punctuation in these lines?

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Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

12] edge of doomedge of doom: the brink of Doomsday.

Explain the personification in this stanza. What is the Explain the personification in this stanza. What is the relationship of Love and Time?relationship of Love and Time?

 If this be error and upon me proved,   I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

How would you paraphrase Shakespeare’s attitude about love? Which literary device is this an example of?

Would it change your view if I explained that this sonnet is in between threein between three that discuss the question of how love deceives both eye and mind and judgment, and is then followed by fourfollowed by four others which attempt to excuse the poet's own unfaithfulness and betrayal of the beloved?

Here’s where your works cited will go if Here’s where your works cited will go if you consult any sources for your you consult any sources for your analysis. analysis.

Since I only consulted my brain, no Since I only consulted my brain, no sources are necessary.sources are necessary.

Many Thanks To…Many Thanks To…

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