sonnet 18
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Key Learning Outcomes
I am able to identify the structural elements and literary devices of a
Shakespearean sonnet.
I am able to analyze the theme of love and beauty and connect it to
-timeless human experiences.
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Read aloud and annotate the poem, focussing on:
Plot: What argument does the speaker make?
Characterisation: Who is the subject, and how are they described?
Writer's Craft: How do the metaphors, personification, rhyme
scheme and other literary devices reinforce the poem's theme?
Sonnet 18
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? a %
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Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
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Rough winds Ido shake the darling buds of May,a
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Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 5
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And often is his gold complexion dimmed; d
And every fair from fair sometime declines, E
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed; d
But thy eternal summer shall not fade, -Ther beauty
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inner will not go away over time
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, f 10
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Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade
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death is arrogant
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When in eternal lines in time thou grow’st; death's victim f be
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
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So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. long
always
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lives you
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remembered poem
her memory
will be remembered
by William Shakespeare
Pair-Share
Think about objects, people or moments that
you wish could last forever. Explain why?
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features of a sonnet
A Shakespearean sonnet has ____ 14 lines.
The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is _____________.
10 syllables line in a
The volta, or shift in argument, usually occurs around line ____.
anatrains where the last 2 lines referred to as couplets
Sonnet 18 has 4 parts ,
1st 3 parts is known as are
discussion
writer’s craft
Shall I compare thee Nor shall Death brag
to a summer’s day? thou wander’st in his
shade.
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filled with life/energy
What qualities of a summer’s day
How is Death personified here?
might the speaker be referencing?
What does the image of Death
How does this comparison
“bragging” suggest about its
introduce the theme of transient
usual power?
beauty?
Why does the speaker ultimately
suggest the subject surpasses a
summer’s day?
Sometime too hot the
eye of heaven shines.
Rough winds do shake the
darling buds of May.
How does the image of the
What picture does this line sun being “too hot” contribute
create in your mind? to the poem’s exploration of
How does the imagery of “rough imperfections in nature?
winds” and “darling buds”
emphasize nature’s
vulnerability?
Thou art more lovely
and more temperate.
Why do you think Shakespeare
chooses the word “temperate”
to describe the subject?
Why ‘temperate”, Not “mild”?
TKGS EL Literature Poetry Potpourri by Mr Firdaus (2025)
discussion: Theme
What does the poem suggest about the
ability of art and poetry to defy the
limitations of time and mortality?
Write down your thoughts and ideas in the space below.
Lit Journal Exit Ticket
How does ‘Sonnet 18’ make you reflect on the Write one sentence: "The most memorable line
things you value and wish to preserve against in ‘Sonnet 18’ is “.........” because it makes me
the passage of time? think about .......
TKGS EL Literature Poetry Potpourri by Mr Firdaus (2025)
