What did you like about the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare? What did you not like? What about the two film renditions, Zefirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” from 1968 and the one directed by Baz Luhrmann (1996)? What did you like and not like about each? If you could change the play’s ending, would you do that and if so, how

Do you feel you have improved any reading skills during this unit? Examples of reading skills: skimming, scanning, (reading for) language analysis, (reading for) understanding effects.

Did you have any problems or difficulties and how did you solve them?

Did this unit give you any new ideas about yourself? Did you discover something new about yourself by completing this unit?

man vs. nature - first choice

no

explanation:

"it's more of an essay than story, but perhaps it is best described as a mood-piece: it uses a lot of musical imagery, not to mention sea imagery, religious imagery, and any other imagery that suits his purpose."

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.