Very important Short Question with Answer from the poem ‘Shall I Compare thee to a summer’s day?’ for WBCHSE class 12 (H.S) final exam. Also Question from the previous H.S exam included. learn it to do better in your examination.
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SAQ from the poem ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’
Q: What do the words ‘eternal lines’ refer to?
Answer: Here ‘Eternal lines’ refer to the eternal lines of the poet’s verse.
Q: What is the duration of Summer?
Answer: The duration of summer is short.
Q: What shall death not do to the poet’s friend? (H.S 2015)
Answer: Death shall not boastfully drag the poet’s friend to his shade
Q: Why does every fair from fair decline?
Answer: Every fair from fair sometime declines due to chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed.
Q: How long did Shakespeare expect his friend to live?
Answer: Shakespeare expects his friend to live as long as men can breathe or eyes can see and as long as his verse lives.
Q: What Shakes the darling buds of May?
Answer: The rough winds of summer shakes the darling buds of May.
Q: Whose gold complexion is dimmed and why?
Answer: The gold complexion of the sun is dimmed.
Q: How are the buds of May shaken?
Answer: The buds of May are shaken by the rough winds of summer.
Q: Why or how does every fair from fair decline?
Answer: Every fair, from fair declines by chance or by nature’s changing course untrimmed
Q: What does the phrase ‘eye of heaven’ refer to?
Answer: The phrase ‘eye of heaven’ refers to the summer sun.
Q: What will make the beauty of the poet’s friend eternal? (H.S 2015)
Answer: The eternal lines of the Shakespearean sonnet will immortalize the beauty and the youth of the poet’s friend.
Q: How is the ‘gold complexion’ of the sun dimmed? (H.S 2016)
Answer: The gold complexion of the sun is dimmed by the clouds.
Q: ‘And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.’ – what is meant by ‘summer’s lease’? (H.S 2016)
Answer: The expression ‘ summer’s lease ‘ means the time span of summer in the seasonal cycle.
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Q: “So long lives this,” What is referred to by the word ‘this’? (H.S 2017)
Answer: ‘This’ here refers to the poetry of Shakespeare or any form of verse.
Q: What does ‘eyes of heaven’ refer to? (H.S 2017)
Answer: The expression ‘the eye of heaven’ refers to the sun.
Q: What gives life to the poet’s friend in Shakespear’s Sonnet No. 18? (H.S 2018)
Answer: The poem (Sonnet No. 18) gives life to the poet’s friend.
Q: How long will the young man be remembered in Shakespear’s Sonnet No. 18? (H.S 2018)
Answer: As long as men can breathe and eyes can see, the young friend of the poet will be remembered in the Shakespearean sonnet “ Shall I Compare Thee To a Summer’s Day”.
Q: What type of sonnet is sonnet no-18? (H.S 2019)
Answer: The poem “ Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” is a celebrated Shakespearean sonnet.
Q: Whose ‘eternal summer’ shall not fade?
Answer: The ‘eternal summer’ of the poet’s friend shall not fade.
Q: Explain the line — ‘….. summer’s lease hath all too short a date’.
Answer: The line signifies that the time allotted to the Summer season is short.
Q: Mention the two qualities that the poet’s friend possessed, which made his comparison with summer impossible.
Answer: The poet’s friend is more ‘lovely’ and more ‘temperate and these are the qualities that made his comparison with summer impossible.
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