Harrison Kim
Period 5
2/12/09
Exercise #6: Applying Poetry Literary Devices
1. Sonnet 18Rhyme scheme: ABAB
Simile: None
Metaphor: None
Imagery: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, too hot the eye of heaven
shines
Personification: Death brag, eternal lines to time thou growest
Thinking Through the Literature
1. The basic comparison made in this poem is a woman to a summer day.
2.Undieing love. Some details that support this is he lists every bad thing about summer
such as "summer's lease hath all too short a date" and "By chance or nature's changing
course untrimmed" while he says that she is none of that and will never fade away.
2. Sonnet 30Rhyme scheme: ABAB
Simile: None
Metaphor: None
Imagery: Pinned down by pain and moaning for release
Personification: Man is making friends with death
Thinking Through the Literature
1. I would find line 14 to be the most memorable. I found line fourteen to be the most
romantic part of the whole sonnet and it is also describes how the author loved the person
so much, they would not trade love for anything in the world.
2. All of the details used to describe "love is not all" have to do with material wants and
needs for people to survive. For example, food and drink are needed to survive, roof for
shelter, cleaning the blood and set fractured bone to help save lives.
4. The speaker's overall opinion of love seemed to be something that helps keep everyone
alive and away from death. The sonnet includes a line where it says" yet many a man is
making friends with death even as I speak, for lack of love alone" which means many
people wish for death because they have no one to love and therefore no meaning in life.
5. Yes because they both follow the ABAB rhyme scheme and they both talk about their
own meaning of love, Shakespeare with his summer lady and Millay with his idea of love.
6. I do believe the poems convey attitudes of love even today because they all talk about
the true meaning of love. For example, Shakespeare talks about one of the most beautiful
things on Earth, summer, and makes his woman look 1000 times better. Also with Millay,
he talks about how love is better than anything in this world and without love, life is
meaningless.
3. Love is not what we want, but what we all need
love is not your favorite food or drink
love is not a video game or a TV
love is a necessity that's what I think
Love is required to sustain life
love is a window to people's true selves
love does not start any strife
love is like a library another can delve
Love may not be our favorite toy
love may not be our beloved ecstasies
you may not think that love can bring you joy
but love is the only thing to bring about pleasant memories
Many don't know what love is about,
But what love truly is, is everything we need