Friday, September 11, 2009

Reading Questions for Sonnets


Please post one reading response question on Shakespeare's sonnets.

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19 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 11, 2009 at 5:42 PM

    Sarah Finley said...
    In Sonnet 116, what is the significance of Shakespeare using first person at the end of the poem; "I never writ..." ?

    September 11, 2009 4:29 PM

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  2. Sarah JonesSeptember 13, 2009 at 3:11 PM

    What is the "ending doom" that Shakespeare refers to in Sonnet 55? Is he referring to the Apocolypse?

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  3. Reymon de GuzmanSeptember 13, 2009 at 3:24 PM

    What kind of similarities does Sonnet 18 share with the other sonnets?

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  4. Montika WhiteSeptember 13, 2009 at 4:51 PM

    In sonnet 18 is Shakespeare referring to a person when he says "his"?


    -Montika White

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  5. Evil GeniusSeptember 13, 2009 at 5:25 PM

    What is the significance of the name Helen mentioned in sonnet 53?
    - Jarvis Pete

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  6. Tara DenleySeptember 13, 2009 at 5:31 PM

    What is the importance of Shakespear's comparison of natures beauty to a lover's beauty in Sonnet 18?

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  7. Dex :)September 13, 2009 at 6:21 PM

    (Sonnet 116) How does Shakesphere express how love is defined?

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  8. Shavitra HardawaySeptember 13, 2009 at 6:50 PM

    In Sonnet 53 how is Shakespeare comparing one thing to another?

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  9. StephanieSeptember 13, 2009 at 7:13 PM

    What is the signigicance of Shakespeare using personification in his sonnets?

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  10. Matthew HuckabeeSeptember 13, 2009 at 7:21 PM

    What is the significance of the rhyme pattern that Shakespeare uses?

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  11. AnonymousSeptember 13, 2009 at 7:32 PM

    In sonnet 116 what does Shakespeare trying to convey about "love?"

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  12. Allison HedstromSeptember 13, 2009 at 8:13 PM

    Shakespeare is describing someone in both sonnet 18 and 53. How are these alike and different, is he describing the same person?

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  13. UnknownSeptember 13, 2009 at 9:37 PM

    What is the significance in Sonnet 116 of "Time's" being capitalized and possessive?

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  14. UnknownSeptember 13, 2009 at 9:48 PM

    What is the significance in sonnet 116 when shakespeare capitalizes love and time in "Love's not Time's fool"?

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  15. AshleySeptember 14, 2009 at 7:03 AM

    (Sonnet 55) Shakespeare writes about "the living record of your memory" and "ending doom"; what is the significance of the past in this sonnet?

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  16. MichaelSeptember 14, 2009 at 9:38 AM

    Why didn't my question show up last night?

    Who are the sonnets for? Who gets to capture his love that he speaks of?


    (He didn't like or love his wife)

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  17. Tiara McDuffieSeptember 14, 2009 at 1:02 PM

    In sonnet 116, what was the purpose that Shakespear was trying to convey by anding the sonnet in the lines of,
    " If this be error and upon me proved,
    I never writ, nor no man ever loved"?

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  18. Dex :)September 20, 2009 at 3:37 PM

    In Scene II what is the significance of Viola investing so must trust in Orsino the first time they meet?

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  19. Rose ShineSeptember 20, 2009 at 8:50 PM

    What is the reason Lady Olivia refuses to marry any one?

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