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Close Reading of shakespeare (continued)
key ideas and deTails
What does Shakespeare mean by “so do our minutes hasten to their end”? What will happen when our minutes reach their end?
key ideas and deTails
Paraphrase lines 9–12 (“Time doth transfix” to “scythe to mow”), explaining the imagery that Shakespeare uses to show how time damages youth.
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end,
Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown’d, Crooked elipses ’gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty’s brow, Feeds on the rarities of nature’s truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow: And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand, Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
Third Reading: Text-Dependent Questioning
Reread the passage a third time and respond to the questions next to the text
Sonnet 60
by William Shakespeare
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key ideas and deTails
How does Shakespeare hope to defeat time and allow the “worth” of the
person he is speaking to live forever?
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