Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. Read the following excerpt from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 147 and fill in the blanks in the paragraph.

My love is as a fever, longing still
For that which longer nurseth the disease,
Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill,
Th’uncertain sickly appetite to please.
My reason, the physician to my love,
Angry that his prescriptions are not kept,
Hath left me, and I, desperate, now approve
Desire is death, which physic did except.

The speaker compares his love to a disease that is
. He goes on to say that even though love is destroying his
, he continues to
. He uses
to portray reason, who, he says is angry at the speaker for not adopting its prescriptions. Thus reason has left him, and the poet agrees that the desire for love is equal to
.
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This question is missing the options for each blank. I have found them online and will post them below.

1. uncontrolled / difficult to detect / carefully treated

2. sanity / well-being / health / wealth

3. love / fantasize / hallucinate / waste away

4. simile / metaphor / personification / hyperbole

5. death / madness / illness / disease

1. uncontrolled

2. sanity

3. love

4. personification

5. death

Explanation:

If put into modern English, the sonnet's speaker is basically comparing love to a disease that is consuming him. He is losing his sanity, since love is driving his reason away. As a matter of fact, the speaker personifies "reason" by calling it a doctor, giving it the ability to treat and cure him like a human would.

Still, the speaker keeps on loving, even though it is making him crazier. In the end, he admits that love and death are the same thing.

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