Question

1. Read any poem of William Shakespeare. Pick out archaic words and guess
what they means.... ​

Answer 1

Sonnet 18

SHALL I compare thee to a summer's day?

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 sometimes 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 wand'rest 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.

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In this poem of William Shakespeare, the archaic words and their meanings are given below:

• thee - you
• thou - you
• art - are
• hath - has
• thy - your
• ow'st - to own/ to have
• wand'rest - to wander
• grow'st - to grow

Answer 2

Answer:

thine,ye,tis,twas,o'er,gi,ne'er,oft, heaven,e'en,th,an',