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Sonnet 30 - William Shakespeare
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night,
And weep afresh love’s long since cancell’d woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish’d sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor’d and sorrows end.
Explain the rhyme scheme (1 pt) and metre (1 pt) of the poem, and identify what type of sonnet it is (1 pt)
Identify a metaphor in this part of the poem (1 pts) and explain its meaning (3 pts):
"Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, // For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night, // And weep afresh love’s long since cancell’d woe,"
Identify the volta or turn in the sonnet (1 pts) and explain the thematic shift it creates (3 pts)
How does the writer emphasise the theme of sorrow and regret in the sonnet? Provide an example (2 pts) and explain (3 pts).
Discuss the sonnet's motif of memory and recollection by giving a relevant example (2 pts) and explaining it (4 pts).