Shakespeare’s Sonnets 18 and 29 презентация

to become immortal? How does this couplet sum up the meaning of the poem?

read the poem long after the subject has died. According to the couplet, the poem gives life to the subject.

and hope.

the poem’s second quatrain? (Couplet : a unit of 2 lines) (Quatrain: a unit of 4 lines) (a sonnet is made of 3 quatrains and 1 couplet)

thinks of his beloved’s love, he feels so rich that he would not change places with kings. In other words, his envy is gone.

to defy time and last forever, carrying the beauty of the beloved down to future generations. The beloved’s “eternal summer” shall not fade precisely because it is embodied in the sonnet: “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,” the speaker writes in the couplet, “So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

his most insecure and troubled. He feels unlucky, shamed, and fiercely jealous of those around him.  But the sonnet ends with a positive affirmation that the poet can combat his anguish with the "sweet love" of his dear friend.