FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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TrueThe love expressed in this sonnet is very sincere and not false. Although the speaker seems to unflattering and critical, he maintains that his love is “rare” as he is able to interact with and share his life with his mistress.
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FalseThe love expressed in this sonnet is very sincere and not false. Although the speaker seems to unflattering and critical, he maintains that his love is “rare” as he is able to interact with and share his life with his mistress.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The poet is perfectly sincere in praising his mistress’s beauty, yet he does so in a way that is playful.
Detailed explanation-2: -The speaker’s view on love is a negative one. His love/lust for the Dark Lady has turned him into an ill, mad man. He’s obsessed to an unhealthy degree. So much so, that his reason has completely left him.
Detailed explanation-3: -The speaker notes that love ‘is an ever-fixed mark/that looks on tempests and is never shaken’, the awesome image of the tempest suggesting just how strong true love must be if it can withstand such a force.
Detailed explanation-4: -W. H.’ This sonnet is in a perfect Shakespearean form with three quatrains and a rhyming couplet. It’s rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, gg. In this sonnet Shakespeare delineates the great qualities of true love. The poet has explained true love in a very free way.