PART A; Which of the following best describes a theme of the sonnet? Nature is indifferent to mankind and is often cruel and punishing.
Love is like the natural world in that it often changes and grows with time.
Love is grander and more enduring than what it is often compared to.
Love is the surest way to find happiness in life and the afterlife
PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate.” (Lines 1-2)
“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer's lease hath all too short a date.”
“And every fair from fair sometime declines, / By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;”
“Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, / When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.''