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ACTIvITy 3
Independent Practice
The sonnet that follows is also by William Shakespeare.
First Reading: First Impressions
Read the following sonnet silently. Your focus for this first reading is on understanding the meaning of the sonnet. As you read, practice diffusing by replacing unfamiliar words with synonyms or definitions for the underlined words. Use the definitions and synonyms in the margins of the page to help your understanding.
Sonnet
by William Shakespeare
1 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove:
5 Ono;itisanever-fixedmark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
10 Withinhisbendingsickle’scompasscome; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
impediments: obstacles or barriers
bends: changes fixed:permanentlyplaced tempest: a great storm bark: a boat or ship
sickle:ascythe—along pole with a curved blade at the end
compass: area or range
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