Question

1. "Shakespeare wants to immortalise his beloved through his art'. Discuss how he seeks to do so with reference to any one sonnet in your course.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Sonnet 18

Explanation:

He compares his beloved's beauty in Sonnet 18 with the summer season. He says that the sun's shine can fade and sun can get lost behind the clouds but his beloved's beauty will never fade. He states that till this Sonnet 18 is alive his beloved will be alive with this poem of his.

Answer 2

In Sonnet 18, the poet commemorates his friend through poetry.

• Shakespeare memorialised his friend's "everlasting beauty" in the poem, via emotions that he described the beauty and the use of metaphor.
• The intensity with which the poet expresses his feelings and depicts his friend's attractiveness is astounding.
• It is a standard topic that many poets have utilised, although virtually all of them were primarily concerned with their own future popularity.
• He extols his beloved's beauty and lists all the ways in which it surpasses the beauty of a summer day. The overriding topic of this poem is love's stability and its potential to immortalise someone.