Assignment for 2-15-13

Hamlet 1.3 questions : As always, use text evidence to support your answers in a way that will broaden our understanding of the scene.

1. What advice does Laertes give Ophelia? Why?

2. What advice does Polonius give Laertes?

3. Why does Polonius forbid Ophelia to see Hamlet?

Paraphrase the following sonnet, Identify its component parts, and explain the message in each section.

Leave Me, O Love Which Reachest But To Dust

 Leave me, O love which reachest but to dust,

And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things;

Grow rich in that which never taketh rust:

Whatever fades but fading pleasure brings.

Draw in thy beams, and humble all thy might

To that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be,

Which breaks the clouds and opens forth the light

That doth both shine and give us sight to see.

O, take fast hold; let that light be thy guide

In this small course which birth draws out to death,

And think how evil becometh him to slide

Who seeketh heaven, and comes of heavenly breath.

Then farewell, world! thy uttermost I see:

Eternal Love, maintain thy life in me.

Leave your work in the proper section box on my desk at the end of the period.

1.3 - 1.5 are due Monday!