Name: S M Sohanur Rahaman

ID No: 1502810402104 (R)

Section: A

Semeter: 5 th

Answer to the question no: 2

Introduction: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”- is the 18 th sonnet of 154 sonnets written
by William Shakespeare. Sonnet 18 is the 18th lyrical sonnet of a long sequence of 154 sonnets
written by William Shakespeare. The poem is on the best sonnet of William Shakepeare. Here the
author adresses his love a young handsome man. In the content, the author decribes of the beauty
of the young man who will be remembered forever because of this poem.

Sonnet 18 as a sonnet: Sonnet 18 is one of the best sonnet written by Willam Shakepeare. It’s
fourteen line are divided into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet. The rhyme scheme of the poem is
“abab cdcd efef gg”. The 14 lines divided into 3 quatrains and a couplet. The poem reflects the
rhetorical tradition of an Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet. The poet teaches us to appreciate poetry to
understand the messages that the poet wishes to convey to the readers. The poem also teaches us
to think about life and death. Life is a mystery to be lived, while death ends everything. But the
beauty of the persona's beloved lives forever and there is no death for her.

Analysis of the poem: if we analize the poem it can be describe in 3 parts.

1. Hostorical background

2. Narrative features

3. Setting of the poem

1.Historical back ground: Sonnet 18, is one of the most popular ones of the first series of the
Shakespearian sonnets (Nr.1-126) dedicated to a ´Fair Youth´, a young nobleman for whom he felt
deep love and admiration. In contrast Nr. 126-152 were dedicated to the ´Dark Lady´. According to
Kindler the ´Dark Lady´ is a woman, physically unattractive but with high sexual attractiveness for the
poet, who absolutely falls for her. The poet finds himself in an interplay of love and aggressiveness
especially when a third combatant gets involved.

Whether Sonnet 18 and other Shakespeare’s sonnets are true experiences of the author or just
fiction is yet unknown. In the Online Encyclopaedia Encarta it says: “Scholars have spent much time
trying to identify the specific figures the different sonnets address, but it is unlikely that the sonnets
are so personal. More likely, the sonnet offered Shakespeare a structures of experiments in lyric
verse that enabled him to play with familiar conventions of feeling and poetry”.

2.Narrative features: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

The addressee of this poem, the lyrical You, is a beloved person, who throughout the whole poem is
addresses as `thee´, ´thy´, ´thou´. This can also be seen in the first line already (highlighted in blue).
Although these expressions are frequently used, the lyrical You doesn’t play an active role in the
poem, because the sonnet seems to be more an inner monologue by the lyrical I. Moreover the
question asked in the beginning of Shakespeare’s sonnet isn’t meant to be answered by the lyrical
You (beloved person), it has more the function of a rhetorical question which should give an insight
into the speaker’s thoughts. Shakespeare uses highly poetic diction, far away from everyday
language.

3.Setting of the poem: Sonnet 18 is about a speaker who is in love with another person and who in
the first line of the poem posed a question which suggests a comparison between this person and a
summer’s day. The second line defines the superiority in character and appearance of the beloved
person over summer.

“Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”

The following six lines reveal the problems of the summer season. Summer is too short, sometimes
too hot and its beauty declines with time. Lines 9-12 state that, although the poem set out to find
similarities between the beloved person and a summer’s day, there is quite a difference between
them. Unlike the beauty of summer the beauty of the beloved person doesn’t fade. As is expressed
in the couplet in the end, the beloved person will live as long as there are people who read this
poem.

My critical views about the poem: In the poem we can identify 3 subjects in the poem. The rival
poet , Dark lady and an anymous young man as the fair youth. Justifiably we can say Sonnet 18 is one
the best sonnet written by William shakespeare. But it would be a mistake to take it entirely in
isolation, for it links in with so many of the other sonnets.

“ the immortality conveyed through being hymned in these 'eternal lines”.

In the line here it is noticeable that here the poet is full of confidence that his verse will live as long
as there are people will exist in the earth. perhaps in the early days of his love, there is no such self-
doubt and the eternal summer of the youth is preserved forever in the poet's lines. The poem also
works at a rather curious level of achieving its objective through dispraise. The summer's day is
found to be lacking in so many respects. For example: acording to the speaker, summer is too short,
too hot, too rough, sometimes too dingy.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

This is taken usually to mean “What if I were to compare thee etc?” The stock comparisons of the
loved one to all the beautiful things in nature hover in the background throughout. It also make me
remember William Wordsworth's lines:
We'll talk of sunshine and of song,
And summer days when we were young,
Sweet childish days which were as long
As twenty days are now.
Such reminiscences are indeed anachronistic, but with the recurrence of words such as 'summer',
'days', 'song', 'sweet', it is not difficult to see the influence of the Sonnets on Wordsworth's verse.

Answer to the question no:1(f)

‘As you like it’ one of the best comedy play written by william shakespear. It is a comedy play with 2
love triangles between 4 peoples which makes play horrendously funny.
 Hermia Helena

Love infatuaion love or liking efect of the juice

Lysander - Rivalry - demetrius Demetrius - Rivalry – lysander

Love triangle the story plot:

At the begining , Demetrius and

Lysander love Hermia. Hermia loves
Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius.

Then… Oberon tells Puck to put the love potion on

Demetrius, because he saw that Demetrius
was rude to Helena. Oberon felt bad about
this, so he wanted to help Helena out by
making Demetrius fall in love with her. But,
Puck puts the potion on Lysander’s eyes,
because he is an Athenian. Helena is surprised
to see Lysander in the forest, so she wakes
him up and he falls in love with her. Then,
when Oberon realizes Puck’s mistake, he tells
Puck to put more potion on Demetrius’ eyes.
Then, when Demetrius wakes up, he sees
Helena and falls in love with her. Now…
Demetrius and Lysander love Helena. Helena
thinks they are mocking her.

Texual Reference:

In the text, In Act II, Scene I, Oberon asks Puck

to retrieve the “love-in-idleness” flower that
“Will make man or woman madly dote / Upon
the next live creature that it sees” . Oberon
states:

“Having once this juice,

I’ll watch Titania when she is asleep

And drop the liquor of it in her eyes.

 The next thing then she waking looks upon,

Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull,

On meddling monkey, or on busy ape,

She shall pursue it with the soul of love….”

Pucks uses his magic to take away the love

potion from Lysander. This causes him to fall
In the end… back in love with Hermia.Now…Lysander loves
Hermia who loves him back. Demetrius loves
Helena who loves him back.

In conclusion, we can the confusion between 4 lovers creates a big sense humor n the play. Which
gives the play life. If we describe the plot we can say these 4 characters and their triangle loves get
us the real comic sense in the play. And the coonfusions between the lovers and the efect of juice
signifies the title of the play very much. When Act 4 opens, Demetrius isn't sure what's real and
what's fantasy. He asks Helena, Hermia, and Lysander: 'Are you sure That we are awake? It seems to
me That yet we sleep, we dream.' When he realizes they're awake, he tries to reassure himself that
the night's events are fictional by saying: 'Let's recount our dreams

Answers to the question no:1 B

Shakespeare’s Sonnets are some of the most fascinating and influential poems written in English.
the Sonnets have been read, recited, reprinted and written about ever since their first appearance.
They have inspired many creative works, including music and dance pieces as well as other poems.
And they continue to intrigue those of us who watch, read and study Shakespeare’s plays, for the
insight they might offer into the mind of the man who wrote our most beloved dramatic works.

The theme of procreation by shakespeare: Romanticism is the main most of shzakespearean

sonnets. The readers or the reciters can see different types of romantic love that expressed by
shakespeares hakespeare addressed most of his sonnets to an unnamed young man, possibly
Wriothesly. Addressing sonnets to a young man was unique in Elizabethan England. Furthermore,
Shakespeare used his sonnets to explore different types of love between the young man and the
speaker, the young man and the dark lady, and the dark lady and the speaker. In his sequence, the
speaker expresses passionate concern for the young man, praises his beauty, and articulates what
we would now call homosexual desire. The woman of Shakespeare’s sonnets, the so-called dark
lady. Several sonnets also probe the nature of love, comparing the idealized love found in poems
with the messy, complicated love found in real life.
In Shakespeare’s sonnets, falling in love can have painful emotional and physical consequences. But
many sonnets warn readers about the dangers of lust and love. According to some poems, lust
causes us to mistake sexual desire for true love, and love itself causes us to lose our powers of
perception. Several sonnets warn about the dangers of lust, claiming that it turns humans “savage,
extreme, rude, cruel” as in Sonnet 129. It was love that caused the speaker to make mistakes and
poor judgments. Elsewhere the speaker calls love a disease as a way of demonstrating the physical
pain of emotional wounds. Throughout his sonnets, Shakespeare clearly implies that love hurts. Yet
despite the emotional and physical pain.

In his sonnets, Shakespeare to express the depth of their feelings, poets frequently used the
hyperbolic terms to describe their affections. Traditionally, sonnets transform women into the most
glorious creatures to walk the earth, whereas patrons become the noblest and bravest men the
world has ever known. Shakespeare makes fun of the convention by contrasting an idealized woman
with a real woman. Shakespeare also portrays beauty as conveying a great responsibility in the
sonnets addressed to the young man.  Nature gave the young man a beautiful face, but it is the
young man’s responsibility to make sure that his soul is worthy of such a visage.