Annotated poem

Annotated poem

Figure. Annotated Poem. The poem reads: 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. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d; 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: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. The student’s annotations are as follows: 1. Rhyming pattern of a sonnet 2. Fair = beauty, or more than beauty? 3. What are eternal lines to time? Ask in class. 4. Who is “thee” in first line? Must be a loved one. 5. The image in second line (“temperate”) is of a pleasant nature (like pleasant weather?). 6. Summer is fleeting and not always perfect. (But lover is perfect?) 7. Death would be proud to claim the lover, but can’t?