Assignments for Stylistic Analysis
1. Read the sonnet and be ready to translate and paraphrase any part of it.
2. Speak on the structure of the sonnet.
3. Give your impression of the poet's mistress and comment on the way he describes her.
4. Discuss the idea of the epigrammatic lines of the sonnet.
5. Speak on a peculiar use of the negative form in the sonnet. What was the poet's purpose in using
this form?
6. Find cases where similes arc used and comment on their peculiarity.
7. State what device is used in the line: "If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head". What
effect is achieved through this device?
8. What do you think is the main device used by the poet in this sonnet?
9. Summing up the analysis of the sonnet speak on the poet's peculiar treatment of the object of his
love and the SDs through which the desired effect is achieved.
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