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SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER’S DAY……………….SHAKESPEARE
MCQ(Multiple Choise Question) With Answer Mark-1
1. This very poem starts with – a)Simile b)Metaphon and interrogation c)Metaphon d)Personification……………..Answer……b)Metaphon and interrogation
2. The month is- a)January b)May c)April d)June………………Answer…..b)May
3. ‘Summer’s day’ refer’s to- a)Summer wind b)Summer heat c)Summer season d)Summer flowers……………….Answer…..c)Summer season
4. This Sonnet addressed to- a)Laura b)Thomas Lucy c)The poet himself d)Mr.W.H……………..Answer…..d)Mr.W.H.
5. The poet’s friend is compared with- a)Winter b)Spring c)Summer d)Monsoon……………..Answer…..c)Summer
6. ‘Eternal Summer’ means- a)Season b)Decay c)Death d)Youth……………….Answer…..d)Youth
7. The word ‘brag’ means- a)Announce b)Claim c)Say d)Glory……………….Answer……b)Claim
8. ‘Eternal’ means- a)Temporary b)Permanent c)Gloomy d)Bright……………..Answer…..b)Permanent
9. ‘Temperate’ means- a)Serve b)Medium c)Permenent d)Wipeable………………Answer…..b)Medium
10. The poet believes that his friend would grow in eternal – a)Manners b)Life c)Line d)Beauty………………Answer…..d)Beauty
11. Rough wind ruins – a)Fruits b)Flowers c)Buds d)Trees………………..Answer…..c)Buds
SAQ(Short Answer Type Question) With Answer Mark-1
1. What are the prime disputes of Summer?
Answer:- Shortlived and natural phenomena ruin the beauty of nature.
2. Why does the poet begin the poem with a question?
Answer:- To convince that the beauty of his friend is beyond comparison.
3. How does the poet suggests that the charm of his friend will never end?
Answer:- His verse immortalize the friend’s beauty.
4. Why does not the poet ready to compare his friend to Summer’s day?
Answer:- His friend is more lovely than a summer’s day.
5.Find out the structure of Sonnet No.18?
Answer:- Quatrains and I concluding couplet.
6. What does ‘eternal summer’ mean?
Answer:- Eternal youth and beauty of his friend.
7. What do you mean by ‘Summer lease’?
Answer:- A very short period of time granted for summer.
8. What do you mean by the two ‘fairs’?
Answer:- 1st all beautiful objects, 2nd- beauty as a whole.
9. What is the meaning of ‘eternal lines’?
Answer:- Eternal verse of the poet.
L.A.Q/D.A.Q/BROAD QUESTION ANSWER Mark-6
1. How does Shakespeare immortalise his friends beauty? Or, How does Shakespeare compare his friends beauty with that of a Summer’s day? Or, Central idea of the poem?
Answer:- In Shakespeare’s Sonnet No 18 the poet wants to compare the beauty of his friend to the beauty of Summer’s day. At first the poet realises that is friend is more tempered and more lovely than the Summer’s day. Secondly in Summer’s day, rough winds destroy buds of flowers.Thirdly Summer Day are too short lived by time. Fourthly, sometimes the sun shines so hot and is dimmed due to cloud. But the beauty of the poets friend is always consant. He is a boy of charming physical beauty.His beauty i.e. youth has no change or decay. Besides the death can never seize the beauty of his friend. Through his immotal lines, the poet will prepetuate the beauty of his friend.
2. So long as men can……………….this gives life to thee…………………..what does ‘this’ refer to here? Who is referred to by ‘thee’? How can this give life?Or Bring out the meaning of the concluding couplet of the poem?
Answer:- Here ‘this’ refers to the lines if the sonnet, written by Shakespeare.
Here ‘thee’ means the poets friend, Mr.W.H.
In the Sonnet, Shakespeare Immortalises his friend beauty. In the world, everything is subject to change and decay,according to the law of nature.But in the concluding couplet, the poet hopes for perpetuating his friend’s beauty in the mortal world through the poetry. He thinks that as long as men will breath and eyes will see, his poem will be read and his eternal lines will immortalized his friend in the mortal world. In his way, this Sonnet will confer upon his friend’s immortality.
3. ‘Every fair from fair……….nature’s changing course,untrimmed’ – What do the first and second fair respectively refer to? Who is untrimmed and how? What does the poet want to say by the line?
Answer:- The first ‘fair’ refers to the subject of beauty and the second fair refers to beauty itself.
Every beautiful thing or person loses external beauty or glamour because of accidental or cyclical decay.
But the line, the poet Shakespeare refers to the destructive power of time.The inevitable ravage of time is perceived in the world of nature.Even the lovely natural elements of summer lose their prime of beauty under the impact of time.But in the mortal world only his friend’s beauty will remain imperishable forever through the sonnet.
4. ‘Rough winds do shake……………..too short a date’- What do the rough winds do? What is the meaning of ‘lease’? What are the other short comings of summer? Or Describe the summer season in European Country in the sonnet. Or What the characteristics of summer’s day?
Answer:- The rough winds destroy the lovely blossoms of spring (May)
‘Lease’ means here duration, It is a legal term.
In the Sonnet, the poet Shakespeare, highlights some short coming of the summer season through the comparison between his friend and summer season. At first the summer winds and storms destroy them before they fully bloom. Secondly, summer days are for short lived by time.Thirdly, it’s beauty is fluctuating between extremes. Fourthly, sometimes the sunburns to fiercely often it’s brightness is obscured by clouds which is gather in the sky with the approach of the storm.Thus the poet celebrates the beauty of his friend through the short coming of summer day.
5. ‘Nor shall Death brag………………..time there grow’st’ – What will death not be able to brag about? How does the poet use capital in the word Death? What does the poet mean by eternal lines?
Answer:- Death will never fell the glory of taking the poet’s friend to his dark world.Actually death will never enjoy its triumph over the poet’s friend.
Here the poet Shakespeare personifies death by indicating him as a boastful man.But his friend is death, defying.
In the sonnet, ‘eternal lines’ mean the lines that will remain all through the time.Actually, the poet wants to say that his fair friend will not decay but grow ever with time through the deathless lines of the poet. The poet’s friend passes from the limited span of individual life to eternity.In this way his friend will be immortalized in the mortal world.