## Task 2: Shakespearean sonnets

'To be or not to be, that's the question.' Many people know this line and even recognize this as a line from Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Shakespeare wrote many interesting plays in different genres, like comedies and tragedies. Next period we will study one of his plays and experience why many of them are still worth reading.

In this project, however, we wil focus on Shakespeare's sonnets, which are also interesting food for thought.

Study the section about Shakespeare's sonnets in your Extracts and Poems reader. There are two sonnets for you to read, but you can also choose to use the two videos below to hear them read out loud.

SONNET 18 & 130

Assignment 1

You could say that both sonnets are love poems, however, conveyed in opposite ways. Describe how in both sonnets the narrator expresses his love to the person described.

Assignment 2

An important part of the sonnet can be found in the final lines, the couplet. What message does Shakespeare try to get across in these final lines in both sonnets?