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Do you think the last two lines make up for the rest of the things the speaker says about
his mistress? Would you think it was charming if someone wrote this poem about
you?
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2.
Does Shakespeare make a fair point? Do some love poems take these
comparisons too far? Or this exactly the place for fancy phrases?
3.
Have you ever tried to write someone a love poem? Did you actually send it? How did
it go over?
In
4 Shakespeare wrote this poem about 400 years ago. Does it feel like an old poem?
what ways? If you changed the language a little, could this poem have been written
today? Why or why not?
5.
Do you feel like the speaker is describing a specific person? If so, what makes it
seem that way? If not, why not?
6. Find one example of a simile in the sonnet. What two things are being compared?

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. which choice best describes the conflict in this poem? the winds are rocking the boat. a man is thrown into the sea. a woman doesn’t want to let go of her dead lover. someone is crying in the darkness.

Give one example if each type of conflict

Along the sea-sands damp and brown the traveller hastens toward the town, what is the effect of the enjambment in these two lines? it emphasizes the idea that each line is a separate thought. it creates a rhyme scheme between the two lines. it encourages the reader to pause between the two lines. it strengthens the connection between the two lines.