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21/12/2020 3:05 pm
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(a) The poet uses alliteration to heighten the musical quality of the sonnet. Working in pairs underline the examples of alliteration in the poem.
(b) Identify Shakespeare’s use of personification in the poem.
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21/12/2020 3:07 pm
(a) Examples of alliteration
- When wasteful war shall statues overturn
- Not marble, nor the glided monuments
- But you shall shine more bright in these contents.
- Even in the eyes of all posterity
- That wear this world out to the ending doom.
(b) Use of personification
- When wasteful war shall statues
- And broils root out the work of masonry.
- Here war and broils are shown to have powerful hands that are capable of causing destruction.
- Your praise shall still find room.
Praise has been shown as a person taking his place somewhere.