Sonnet 60 Questions and Answers
Sonnet 60
What is a critical appreciation of Sonnet 60?
Even by the standards of the Shakespearean sonnet, this poem is very neatly divided into three self-contained quatrains and a couplet. The quatrains provide three complementary views of the passage...
Sonnet 60
How is the idea of time important in Spenser’s Sonnet 75 and Shakespeare’s Sonnet 60? Describe Spenser’s reasons for...
Each sonnet is centrally concerned with how quickly time passes and how soon we humans die. Both sonnets use the metaphor of the waves to show how human lives are over almost in a flash. Spenser's...
Sonnet 60
What is Shakespeare's Sonnet 60 about? Which of the following best describes the whole structure of the poem as a...
(All line citations are taken from the text available at the Shakespeare Online reference provided.) Question 1: Which of the following best describes the whole structure of the poem as a whole? A)...
Sonnet 60
What is a summary of Shakespeare's Sonnet LX (60)?
William Shakespeare's Sonnet LX is about Time as a destructive force. This destructiveness of Time is the threat to anything that is temporal. But the speaker contends that the sonnet, composed of...
Sonnet 60
I only have part of a quote by Shakespeare: "like pebbles to the beach." Which play is it from? I saw an interview...
Although not exact, the line you quote is from William Shakespeare, but it is not from a play, ... it's from a poem. This line is from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make...