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Sonnet 73
Contributed by: Bennett
  • 1. What is the main theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 73?
A) Old age
B) Nature
C) Love
D) Youth
  • 2. How many quatrains are in Sonnet 73?
A) Five
B) Three
C) Two
D) Four
  • 3. What is the rhyme scheme of Sonnet 73?
A) ABC ABC DEF DEF GG
B) ABBA CDDC EFFE GG
C) AABB CCDD EEFF GG
D) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
  • 4. What poetic meter is used in Sonnet 73?
A) Trochaic tetrameter
B) Iambic pentameter
C) Anapestic hexameter
D) Dactylic dimeter
  • 5. Which metaphor is used in the first quatrain of Sonnet 73?
A) Twilight
B) Autumn
C) Winter
D) Fire
  • 6. What does the second quatrain's metaphor focus on?
A) A dying fire
B) Spring blossoms
C) The passing of a day
D) Autumn leaves
  • 7. In the third quatrain, what does Shakespeare compare life to?
A) A blooming flower
B) The rising sun
C) A dying out of a fire
D) A flowing river
  • 8. What is the significance of the final couplet in Sonnet 73?
A) It emphasizes the strength of love despite impending loss.
B) It describes the beauty of nature.
C) It shifts focus to the Fair Youth's future.
D) It introduces a new theme unrelated to aging.
  • 9. Who is addressed in Sonnet 73?
A) An unnamed friend
B) The Fair Youth
C) Shakespeare himself
D) A beloved mistress
  • 10. What does Barbara Estermann argue about the speaker's comparison in Sonnet 73?
A) The speaker compares his love to a summer's day.
B) The speaker compares his life to a river.
C) The speaker compares his youth to eternal spring.
D) The speaker compares himself to the universe through aging and dying.
  • 11. What does Seymour-Smith describe in the first quatrain?
A) A metaphor involving ruined arches and naked boughs.
B) An image of a rising sun.
C) A comparison between fire and water.
D) A description of a blooming garden.
  • 12. What does Barbara Estermann say about the second quatrain?
A) It describes the beauty of autumn leaves.
B) It compares life to a blooming flower.
C) It focuses on the change from twilight to black night.
D) It talks about the joy of summer.
  • 13. What does Carl D. Atkins remark about the third quatrain?
A) Life begins anew with each sunrise.
B) Life is compared to a flowing river.
C) Life is extinguished when youth's strength is past, like fire going out.
D) Life is eternal and unchanging.
  • 14. What does John Prince suggest about the sonnet's final line?
A) It focuses on the beauty of nature.
B) It implies the listener must leave what they love before long.
C) It suggests the speaker will live forever.
D) It indicates a celebration of eternal youth.
  • 15. What does Bernhard Frank criticize about Shakespeare's metaphors?
A) They focus solely on the beauty of nature.
B) They are cliché and logically off, but evoke sympathy.
C) They emphasize eternal love.
D) They perfectly capture the essence of youth.
  • 16. How does James Schiffer interpret the final couplet?
A) It merges themes of devotion and enjoying fleeting youth.
B) It focuses only on the speaker's impending death.
C) It introduces a new theme unrelated to aging.
D) It describes the beauty of nature.
  • 17. What is one possible source for the third quatrain's metaphor?
A) An ancient Greek text
B) Geoffrey Whitney's A Choice of Emblemes
C) A modern poetry anthology
D) William Shakespeare's own diary
  • 18. What does Alan R. Young suggest as the likeliest source for the metaphor?
A) An ancient Roman play
B) A contemporary novel
C) A medieval manuscript
D) Claude Paradin's Devises Heroïques
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