1. William Shakespeare
Man of a Thousand Words

2. William Shakespeare
Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564
Died April, 23, 1616 and is buried in the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford
Arrived in London in 1588

3. Subjects of Shakespearean Sonnets
Ability first written about in 1592
Wrote 37 plays and 154 poems
Invented the word ASSASSINATION plus roughly 1700 others

4. First quatrain: An explanation of the main theme and main metaphor.
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

5. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
Second quatrain: Theme and metaphor are extended or complicated; often some imaginative example is given.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;

6. Third Quatrain- A twist or conflict.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest,
Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou growest

7. Couplet: Summarizes and leaves the reader with a new, concluding image
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.