A: If You Love Something Let It Go, If It Comes Back to You, If It Doesn't Come Back, You

READ ME: Poetry can be tricky at times, but it gets much easier if we don’t look at it in the vacuum of poetry. These are written about things that we can all relate to, so when we read poems remember that they are writing about things we know about and hear about every day: Love, friendship, our purpose in life and our legacy. Even if you have never been in love, never had a boyfriend or girlfriend and never worried about what impact you will have on the world, you can still relate to these sonnets (and most poems) by relating them to your own thoughts on the subject. With that in mind…Answer the following questions on a blank page in your notebook, they don’t have to be long, drawn out answers; get the ideas down on the page quickly. Then look at the quotes around the page- Each of them has some relation to one of the questions. After answering the questions you will be put together in groups to decide which quote box applies to each question. You will turn in one sheet with your choice and why you believe it relates. That sheet is the one that will require well thought out “deep” thinking.

1. When does the author start getting down on himself in sonnet 29? What does that have in common with lines 2-5 of sonnet 106?
2. In sonnet 106 who does he refer to in the beginning of the poem?(List 2 examples from Greek Mythology whom he might be referring to).
3. In 106: First he says they were good at their jobs, then he says they failed. Why does he have this contrast?
4. What does he list in sonnet 29? In sonnet 106? What affect does the listing have on the reader (comment on the way it sounds as well as what it says).
5. In sonnet 71 why doesn’t Shakespeare want his love to remember him?
6. Sonnet 116: Rephrase lines 2-3 in your own words. How is this line reiterated over the next 6 lines?
7. What does he say to prove himself correct at the end of sonnet 116? How does he use referring to his own poems (in 18, 71 and 116) throughout these sonnets?
8. In sonnet 130, how does Shakespeare’s girl stack up compared to the other things he mentions? How does he feel about her? The comparison is different, but the outcome (as in his feeling toward her) is the same. How does this DIRECTLY link to his idea of love in sonnet 116?