Poetry Slam!: Sonnet 18

Many of the 154 sonnets William Shakespeare published touched on love, beauty, and time. Sonnet 18 brings the three themes together in a focus on a fair youth who lives forever through the written word.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 9 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Poetry, poemcrazy, Nikki-Rosa, We Real Cool, Fast Break, Identity, Ego Tripping, Hanging Fire, odes, Sonnet 18, In Response to Executive Order 9066, Young, Poetry Cafe, poems by Nikki Giovanni
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  1. compare
    examine and note the similarities or differences of
    Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
  2. temperate
    not extreme
    Thou art more lovely and more temperate
  3. darling
    dearly loved
    Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May
  4. lease
    a contract granting use or occupation of property
    And summer's lease hath all too short a date
  5. dim
    made less bright
    Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
    And often is his gold complexion dimmed
  6. decline
    grow worse
    And every fair from fair sometime declines
  7. untrimmed
    not trimmed
    By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed
  8. fade
    lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
    But thy eternal summer shall not fade
  9. possession
    the act of having and controlling property
    Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st
  10. brag
    show off
    Nor shall death brag
  11. wander
    go via an indirect route or at no set pace
    thou wand'rest in his shade
  12. eternal
    continuing forever or indefinitely
    When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st
  13. breathe
    be alive
    So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
    So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Created on Fri Sep 26 13:31:46 EDT 2014 (updated Fri Sep 26 16:42:25 EDT 2014)

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