Verifica: sonetti di Shakespeare

  • 1/9

    To whom are most of Shakespeare’s sonnets dedicated?

  • 2/9

    The Petrarchan metric structure of the sonnet was changed by Shakespeare, who created a new structure made by three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter.

  • 3/9

    How are the first 17 Shakespeare sonnets mostly known and called?

  • 4/9

    According to Shakespeare, procreation is not the only way to gain immortality. What is the other way?

  • 5/9

    What is the main theme of Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare?

  • 6/9

    Is it true that in Sonnet 18 there can be found a thematic division between the first eight lines, which are about eternity, and the last six lines, which are about mutability?

  • 7/9

    In Sonnet 116 what does Shakespeare mean by the expression “the marriage of true minds”?

  • 8/9

    Is it true that In Sonnet 116 concepts and images are the most innovative aspects of this poem?

  • 9/9

    “Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come” In these verses the poet wants to show that love is a victim of the tricks of time, which is like a sickle cutting down roses and making them fade.