On Killing a Tree
Birth
April 23, 1564
Baptised on
April 26, 1564
Name of the parents
Father, John Shakespeare and mother, Mary Arden
Place of birth
Stratford-on-Avon in the country of Warwickshire
Education
At a grammar school at Stratford. Ben Jonson writes that Shakespeare knew "small Latin and less Greek."
Marriage
Anne Hathaway
Children
Two daughters and a son
Career
William Shakespeare was a
English poet and dramatist the sixteenth century. He wrote sonnets, tragedies, comedies, and historical plays. Some of his noted works are Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Drama, Venus and Adonis.
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. Shakespearean sonnet has fourteen lines, ending in a rhymed couplet. In this poem Shakespear enquiries into the theme of the destruction brought by time and the enternal quality of art which transcends the ravages of time.
Start....
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.
Sometime to 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.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wand' rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Questions & Answers
MCQ Type................................................Mark1
1. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' is sonnet no.-
A) 15
B) 16
C) 17
C) 18
2. The sonnet is addressed to a-
A) young man
B) young woman
C) Shakespeare's wife
D) none of them
3. The summer mentioned in the poem is very-
A) clam
B) beautiful
C) rough
D) unfair
4. A summer's day is not so lovely as -
A) the youn friend
B) heaven
C) flowers
D) buds
5. The 'darling buds' are shaken by rough winds in -
A) March
B) April
C) May
D) June
6. The word, 'heaven' here stands for the -
A) earth
B) sky
C) beauty
D) eternity
7. The sunshine makes the summer too hot -
A) always
B) seldom
C) sometime
D) often
8. The month referred by the poet in the sonnet is -
A) May
B) January
C) August
D) December
9. The winds that blow in summer in Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 are -
A) balmy
B) weak
C) hot
D) rough
10. 'summer's lease' is -
A) short lived
B) long standing
C) for years
D) for a century
11. "Thou art more lovely and more temperate." - The word 'thou' refers to -
A) the poet's lady love
B) the poet's mother
C) the poet's friend
D) the poet himself
12. "But thy eternal summer shall not fade" The word opposite in meaning to 'eternal' is -
A) universal
B) momentary
C) temporal
D) decayed
13. "Sometime too hot eye of heaven shines" - The reference here is to -
A) Mars
B) the Sun
C) the Moon
D) Jupiter
14. The poet compares his beloved to -
A) a summer flower
B) summer breeze
C) a summer's day
D) summer tune
15. Compared to a summer's day , the poet's friend is -
A) more lovely and more temperate
B) more sweet and soothing
C) more attractive and beautiful
D) more sensuous and passionate
16. The rough winds of summer -
A) blow the flowers away
B) shake the darling buds of May
C) prevent the birds to fly
D) blows a beautiful scent
17. "Eye of heaven" means -
A) The Moon
B) The Earth
C) The Sun
D) The Stars
18. The phrase 'gold complexion dimmed' means -
A) the sun rays become scorching
B) the sun rays diminish
C) the sun rays fade
D) the sun rays hide
19. The poet asserts that his poetry will eternalize -
A) the youth of his friend
B) the beauty of nature
C) the eye of heaven
D) the darling buds of May
20. Everything fair experiences inevitable -
A) incline
B) indifference
C) decline
D) revival
21. The rhyme scheme of the first stanza of the poem ' Shall I compare thee' -
A) abab
B) abba
C) aabb
D) abcd
22. 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' is -
A) a sonnet
B) a lyric
C) a ballad
D) a dramatic monologue
23. "And often is his gold complexion dimmed" The word 'his' refer to -
A) the poet's friend
B) summer season
C) a summer's day
D) sun
24. Summer has -
A) short duration
B) long duration
C) constant temperature
D) constant brightness
25. Nature's changing course is -
A) temperate
B) mild
C) untrimmed
D) lonely
Answers:. (Read GK to click here)
1.d 2.a 3.c. 4.a 5.c 6.b 7.c 8.a 9.d 10.a 11.c 12.b 13.b 14.c 15.a 16.b 17.c 18.c 19.a 20.c 21.a 22.a
23.d 24.a 25.c
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