Monday, January 23, 2012

Sonnet 116

The students began work on sonnets today! They are reading Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare and analyzing the poem! I am so excited to see what they come up with! Here is the sonnet:

SONNET 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
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.
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.
   If this be error and upon me proved,
   I never writ, nor no man ever loved.



For extra help, students can visit this website as a resource:

Shakespeare-Online


Happy analyzing!!

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