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Unit 23: Shakespeare’s Sonnets




                  (a)  Allegiance to lower class society                                             Notes
                  (b)  An inner beauty that matches his physical appearance
                  (c)  Good looks leaning toward the female persuasion
                  (d)  A sense of inferiority
             3.   Who was not among the candidates for the identity of the Dark Lady sonnet 127-152?
                  (a)  Shakespeare’s wife, Ann Boleyn  (b) Mary Fitton
                  (c)  A Negro prostitute              (d) Lady Penelope Rich
             4.   In sonnet 76-86, Shakespeare refers to his Rival poet as
                  (a)  a finer spirit                  (b)  the affable familiar ghost
                  (c)  a worthier pen                  (d)  so great a sum of sums
             5.   The major theme that Shakespeare sets forth in the first 17 of his sonnets is that
                  (a)  Poetry has the power to conquer time
                  (b)  Love is the only faithful from immortality
                  (c)  Beauty and youth can be continued by producing progency
                  (d)  Everyone‘s lot in life is to suffer
             6.   The sonnets in which Shakespeare says that the fair young man more than make up for the
                  poet‘s failures in life are often referred to as the
                  (a)  Compensation quatrains          (b)  Despair sonnets
                  (c)  Odes to immortality             (d) Passion poems
             7.   How many of Shakespeare’s sonnets dwell on a religious theme?
                  (a)  126                             (b) The first 17 and last 17
                  (c)  Just 1                          (d)  All of them
             8.   Which of the following colours are not mentioned in sonnet 12, 73 or 99?
                  (a)  Sable                           (b)  Ashem
                  (c)  Berry blue                      (d) Sunset


            23.3 Thou Blind Fool, that Time of Year Thou Mayst in me Behold, what
                 Dost Thou to Mine Eyes

            Sonnet 137 - “Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes”
            Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes,
            That they behold, and see not what they see?
            They know what beauty is, see where it lies,
            Yet what the best is take the worst to be.
            If eyes, corrupt by over-partial looks,
            Be anchored in the bay where all men ride,
            Why of eyes’ falsehood hast thou forged hooks,
            Whereto the judgment of my heart is tied?
            Why should my heart think that a several plot,
            Which my heart knows the wide world’s common place?
            Or mine eyes, seeing this, say this is not,
            To put fair truth upon so foul a face?




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