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Question I: In the following lines from Sonnet 18, which of the syllables are stressed? (Indicate the stressed syllables by using bold typeface or listing the syllables.) Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Question II: The sonnet form originated in Italy but spread throughout Europe during the Renaissance as the favored vehicle of aspiring courtiers. Due to its short and rigid structure, the form allowed poets to compete--to show off their clever rhymes and metaphors while wooing their unattainable mistresses. It was a male-dominated cult of courtly love, and at a certain point, the figures of love became cliched and repetitive and in much need of either abandonment or reinvigoration. In the centuries that followed, many poets chose to maintain the form by innovating it to suit their own social, personal and historical contexts. Three of these poets include William Shakespeare, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Briefly describe the innovations each of these poets made. Make specific references to their sonnets to support your answer.

Question III: What do this module's poems by Alice Walker, Pablo Neruda, and Billy Collins (which are ALICE WALKER I Said to Poetry, PABLO NERUDA (translated by Alastair Reid), and BILLY COLLINS Monday) say about the making of poetry? (List at least one perspective from each of the three poems.)

Question IV: In "Nuns fret not ...", William Wordsworth describes the restrictions or limitations of several different occupations. The poet uses these as analogies for what other "prison"?

Question V: Name and describe the two main rhyme schemes used in sonnets. How do the rhyme schemes indicate a logical structure for the content of the sonnet? Use specific references to sonnets to support your answer.