STUDY QUESTIONS:
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH – THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WIH US
1. What emotions does the poem raise?
2. What is really important according to the speaker?
3. What does Wordsworth think is wrong with the modern world?
4. What type of narration is used? Notice the shift in the second part of the poem. Does the speaker include himself in the ‘we’?
5. What images are used in the poem? Do they correspond with its subject matters?
6. Find as many elements of figurative language as possible? Explain their meaning within the sonnet.
7. Do you see any relation between the poem and the romantic movement as far as its subject matters are concerned?
8. Explain the symbolical meaning of the Greek gods mentioned in the sonnet.
9. Formulate the theme of the sonnet.
10. What is the form of the sonnet (type of sonnet, rhyme scheme, content arrangement)?
11. What makes the poem relevant even today?
1. What emotions does the poem raise?
2. What is really important according to the speaker?
3. What does Wordsworth think is wrong with the modern world?
4. What type of narration is used? Notice the shift in the second part of the poem. Does the speaker include himself in the ‘we’?
5. What images are used in the poem? Do they correspond with its subject matters?
6. Find as many elements of figurative language as possible? Explain their meaning within the sonnet.
7. Do you see any relation between the poem and the romantic movement as far as its subject matters are concerned?
8. Explain the symbolical meaning of the Greek gods mentioned in the sonnet.
9. Formulate the theme of the sonnet.
10. What is the form of the sonnet (type of sonnet, rhyme scheme, content arrangement)?
11. What makes the poem relevant even today?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – SONNET 18
1. What emotions does the poem raise?
2. What are the two main objects of the poem and what is their relation?
3. Comment on the significance of the first line in relation to the rest of the sonnet.
4. What is the form of the sonnet (type of sonnet, rhyme scheme, content arrangement)?
5. Formulate the theme of the sonnet.
6. What images are used in the poem? Do they correspond with its subject matters?
7. To whom, in your opinion, is this sonnet dedicated? Who do you think is the person described in the poem?
JOHN MILTON – ON HIS BLINDNESS
1. What is the form of the sonnet? How is it related to the content?
2. What are the questions Milton asks? What do they reveal about the speaker?
3. What is the central metaphor around which the poem is structured (allusion to Bible)?
4. What is the tone / mood of the poem? Is it constant or changing? How does it relate to the theme of the poem?
5. What is Milton’s understanding of time? Demonstrate.
6. What images are used in the poem? Do they correspond with its subject matters?
7. Find as many elements of figurative language as possible? Explain their meaning within the sonnet.
8. Relate the sonnet to Milton’s own life.
9. Formulate the theme of the sonnet.
