- Apr 2016
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www.opensourceshakespeare.org www.opensourceshakespeare.org
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cheque'd
the words "cheque'd" and "bereft" are the two words I do not know the meaning of. I'm guessing "bereft" means "were left" but I have no idea what "cheque'd" means. I looked it up and it means to pay with a personnel check. But how does that fit in with this poem? Does it mean that sap paid with frost or gave up to frost?
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Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
The iambic pentameter in this poem is a bit hard to read. There are a lot of lines that have three or two syllabus and its hard to find the specific beat like in line 11.
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frame
The rhyme schemes of this sonnet are A is frame and same, B is dwell and excel, C is on and gone, D is there and where, E is left and bereft, F is glass and glass and was, and the volta is meet and sweet. But the part that makes me question is the rhyme scheme part F: was and glass don't rhyme so why is it like that?
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For never-resting time leads summer on 5 To hideous winter and confounds him there;
What these lines are trying to say is that during the summer we are active and always trying to look for new things and in winter we are slow to do things that we enjoy.
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Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where: Then, were not summer's distillation left,
What this is saying that in the winter everything is covered in snow and looks bare whereas in the summer there is a ton of variety in our surroundings.
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But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
The volta above is saying during the bulk of the sonnet is its explaining things that change but in the last part it goes on to explain that true beauty never changes.
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Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it nor no remembrance what it was: But flowers distill'd though they with winter meet, Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.
I think what this part is trying to say is that true beauty never changes and never dies out
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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he described the immense and widespread popularity of Shakespeare.
That's kind of weird how Shakespeare's work became so popular in America around the revolution even though he wasn't even alive at that time.
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By the mid-18th century, Shakespeare’s work had become a bible for Americans, and a treasured, felicitous reminder of their linguistic and cultural heritage
I like how the author uses the analogy that "Shakespeare's work had become a Bible..." because it really shows how popular it was.
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First, there is the history of American public eloquence that culminates in Abraham Lincoln not only quoting from the plays in his first inaugural address, but also using the cadences of Shakespeare to connect with his audience
I never knew that some of Abraham Lincoln's speeches had taken parts from some of Shakespeare's work.
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