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    Sonnet 12/Sonnet 60/Sonnet 73, Sonnet 32, and Sonnet 75


    William Shakespeare and Mary Wroth and Edmund Spenser

    WORD LIST
    toil             assay             devise

    A. DIRECTIONS: In each of the following items, think about the meaning of the
    italicized word or phrase, and then answer the question.

    1. If you spend most of your vacation forced to toil away in the hot sun, are you
    relaxing on the beach? Why or why not?

    2. In Sonnet 75, Edmund Spenser states that the vain man “dost in vain assay” to
    immortalize a mortal thing. Has the man been successful in what he is doing?
    How do you know?

    3. Would it be beneficial for a construction company to devise a plan before


    laying the foundation for a new building? Why or why not?

    B. WORD STUDY: A multiple-meaning word is a word with more than one meaning.
    The word can thus change meanings when there is a shift in context. Some words
    we think we know today had other meanings hundreds of years ago. In Spenser's
    line “One day I wrote her name upon the strand,” the word strand means “beach.”
    You may be more familiar with a different meaning of strand, “thread,” as in “a
    strand of pearls” or “a strand of hair.” Depending on the context, strand can mean
    “thread” or “beach.” You can still see vestiges of the “beach” meaning in a third
    meaning, “leave helpless,” as in “stranded in traffic” or “a stranded whale.”
    Below, circle the correct meaning of the underlined multiple-meaning word
    in each of these lines from the sonnets.

    1. That on the ashes of his youth doth lie . . . (recline, fib)

    2. To love that well which thou must leave ere long . . . (greatly, healthy)

    3. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth. (hypnotize, impale)

    4. My verse your virtues rare shall eternize. (underdone, unusual)

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