Учебное пособие 4 unit I. The renaissance 1485-1649

ASSIGNMENTS FOR STYLISTIC ANALYSIS
Sonnet 116
1. Let me not to the marriage of true minds.
2. Admit impediments. Love is not love.
3. Which alters when it alteration finds,
4. Or bends with the remover to remove:
5. O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark.
6. That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
7. It is the star to every wandering bark,
8. Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
9. 
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks;
10.Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
11.Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
12.But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
13. If this be error and upon me proved,
14. I never write, nor no man ever loved.
1.Be ready to paraphrase and interpret any part of the sonnet.
2.Speak on the idea of the sonnet.
3.Discuss the structure of the sonnet.
4.Find the modifiers of rhythm that are used in the sonnet and comment on
them.
5.Speak on the rhymes of the sonnet: a) cases of imperfect rhyme;
b) the rhyme of the epigrammatic lines.
6.Discuss the idea of the epigrammatic lines.
7.Find cases of metaphors and metaphoric periphrases employed in the
sonnet and comment on them.

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8.Discuss the SD used by the poet in the description of Time.
9.
Find cases of alliteration (and other sound repetition) that help to bring out
the idea of the sonnet (lines 3,4). 10.State the stylistic function of the
interjections: «O, no!» (line 5). 11.Summing up the analysis of the sonnet
speak on the poet’s conception of love and the various SDs used to bring the
poet’s idea home. Express your own attitude to the subject.
Sonnet 27
1. Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
2. The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
3. But then begins a journey in my head,
4. To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired:
5. 
For then my thoughts, from far where I abide,
6. Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
7. And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
8. Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
9. Save that my soul’s imaginary sight
10.Presents thy shadow to my sightless view,
11.Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night,
12.Makes black night beauteous and her old face new.
13.Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind.
14.For thee and for myself no quiet find.