Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow

1.	Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day ?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shinesAnd often is his gold complexion dimmed,And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed:But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,Nor shall Death brag thou wander’ st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.1. Write the summary of this poem.2. Explain the following lines‘Shall I compare ……………… short a date:’3. Infer the meanings of the following phrases:(i) summer’s lease(ii) the eye of heaven(iii) gold complexion4. Change the following words into noun:(i) complex(ii) posses
Answer» 1. The poem opens with a flattering question. The poet compares his beloved with a summer’s day. He finds his beloved more lovely and more temperate. Diurnal activities affect summer day but the summer of the beloved is eternal. The poet has enshrined her in the poem so she will live forever. 2. The poet asks his beloved if he should compare her with a summer day. He tells her that she is more lovely and more temperate than the summer day. Rough winds have impact on the vegetation. The summer season is very short, 3. (i) The allotted time to summer season is very short while the beloved is eternal. (ii) The sun is the eye of the sky. (iii) The golden rays of the sun gives the summer day golden colour. 4. (i) complexion (ii) possession

Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day ?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shinesAnd often is his gold complexion dimmed,And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed:But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,Nor shall Death brag thou wander’ st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.1. Write the summary of this poem.2. Explain the following lines‘Shall I compare ……………… short a date:’3. Infer the meanings of the following phrases:(i) summer’s lease(ii) the eye of heaven(iii) gold complexion4. Change the following words into noun:(i) complex(ii) posses

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1. The poem opens with a flattering question. The poet compares his beloved with a summer’s day. He finds his beloved more lovely and more temperate. Diurnal activities affect summer day but the summer of the beloved is eternal. The poet has enshrined her in the poem so she will live forever.

2. The poet asks his beloved if he should compare her with a summer day. He tells her that she is more lovely and more temperate than the summer day. Rough winds have impact on the vegetation. The summer season is very short,

3. (i) The allotted time to summer season is very short while the beloved is eternal.

(ii) The sun is the eye of the sky.

(iii) The golden rays of the sun gives the summer day golden colour.

4. (i) complexion

(ii) possession

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