William Shakespeare
1. Let me not to the marriage of true minds
2. Admit impediments. Love is not love
3. Which alters when it alteration finds,
4. Or bends with the remover to remove:
5. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark
6. That looks on tempests, and is never shaken.
7. It is the star to every wandering bark
8. Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken;
9. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
10. Within his bending sickle's compass come:
11. Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
12. But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
13. If this be error and upon me proved,
14. I never writ, nor man ever loved.
1. Be ready to paraphrase and interpret any part of the sonnet.
2. Speak on the idea of the sonnet.
3. Discuss the structure of the sonnet.
4. Find the modifiers of rhythm that are used in the sonnet and comment on them.
5. Speak on the rhymes of the sonnet: a) cases of imperfect rhyme; b) the rhyme of the epigrammatic lines.
6. Discuss the idea of the epigrammatic lines.
7. Find cases of metaphors and metaphoric periphrases employed in the sonnet and comment on them.
8. Discuss the SD used by the poet in the description of Time.
9. Find cases of alliteration (and other cases of sound repetition) that help to bring out the idea of the sonnet (lines 3, 4).
10. State the stylistic function of the interjections: “O, no!” (line 5).
11. Summing up the analysis of the sonnet speak on the poet's conception of love and the various SDs used to bring the poet's idea home. Express your own attitude to the subject.
THE DAFFODILS
William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils.
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company!
I gazed - and gazed - but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
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And dances with the daffodils.
1. Analyze the rhythmical arrangement and rhymes of the poem.
2. Comment on the contextual meanings of the metaphor “dance” (and “dancing”) in the poem and its stylistic function.
3. Speak on the epithets and metaphors used to describe flowers in the poem.
4. Speak on the SDs employed to characterize the state of mind of the poet.
5. Summing up the analysis say what SDs are used to describe nature and what is the poet's attitude to it.
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