One possible answer might be: From the Pop Sonnet, the reader learns that the speaker has seen wealth from afar but is not rich, and that she doesn’t care that she can’t attain that kind of status—she believes she’s better off without it.

One possible answer might be: One rule for converting a pop song into a sonnet would be to pick a song with broad appeal. The most popular songs often contain themes that are repeated across time, and putting those ideas, experiences, and sentiments into Shakespearean terms will come more naturally.

One possible answer might be: The Mark Twain Twitter feed provides pithy quotes from the author relevant to today’s events. We learn just how Twain’s ideas still resonate, but we lose their original context—while his words might still apply today, we don’t always know from the tweets to what he was referring. The person behind the Twitter feed might want to make Twain’s work more popular or relevant, or might just be a big fan who enjoys watching his or her favorite author “interact” with others in real time. You have to know a lot about the author and his or her style to pull this off well.

One possible answer might be: Sonnet 35 (“No more be griev’d at that which thou hast done”) has a clear parallel in the 1990s hit song “Lovefool,” by the Cardigans. In both the sonnet and the song, the speaker acknowledges that his or her beloved has not behaved well and doesn’t love the speaker back, but in both cases, blames himself or herself and accepts the deception as necessary to love.