Sonnet 18:Questions

Look for clues in the poem and use them to answer the questions.

1. Who does the persona compare to a summer’s day?
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2. What does the persona refer to as darling buds of May?
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3. What are two qualities that the persona finds in his beloved in line two of the poem?
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4. Why does the persona say that summer has too short a date?
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5. Why is the sun seen as being at a disadvantage compared to the persona’s beloved?
Why do you say so?
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6. Who does the persona refer to as eternal summer? What does it mean?
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7. How would the persona’s beloved be remembered forever by people?
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8. What is the tone expressed by the persona in the couplet in the poem?
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9. State two themes that are present in the poem?
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10. What moral lessons can we learn from the poem?
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