Sonnet 18 Paraphases
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4 questions
Note from the author:
Basic prompts for paraphrasing Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18"
1
In the response, paste the paraphrase of the first quatrain of Sonnet 18.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
In the response, paste the paraphrase of the first quatrain of Sonnet 18.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
1
In the response, paste the paraphrase of the second quatrain of Sonnet 18.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed.
In the response, paste the paraphrase of the second quatrain of Sonnet 18.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed.
1
In the response, paste the paraphrase of the third quatrain of Sonnet 18.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
In the response, paste the paraphrase of the third quatrain of Sonnet 18.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
1
In the response, paste the paraphrase of the closing couplet of Sonnet 18.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
In the response, paste the paraphrase of the closing couplet of Sonnet 18.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.