Sonnet 55 Shakespeare

I'm that type of girl who will burst out laughing in dead silence for something that happened yesterday. I own minds, dreams and hearts.

Aside from his many plays, Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets. many dealt with love, fatte, and the ravages of time.

Not marble nor the glided monuments

Or princess shall outlive this powerful rime

But you shall shine more bright in these contents

Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time

when wasteful war shall statues overturn

and broils root out the work of masonry

Nor mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn

the living record of your memory.

'Gainst death and all obvious enmity

shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room

even in eyes of all posterity

that wear this world out to the ending doom.

so, till this judgement that yourself arise,

you live in this, and dwell in lovers's eyes

What is Shakespeare suggesting about the enduring power of love? What is the extended metaphor he uses to make his point?

d) Graph the data provided. (On graph, paper … duh!) Plot changes in temperature along the y-axis (vertical axis) and the days of the menstrual cycle along the x-axis (horizontal axis).

e) Assuming this menstrual cycle represents the average 28-day cycle, label the ovulation day on