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Sean Mozarmi Mozarmi
Ms. Zwick
AP English Literature
19 January 2011
Heath Guide Discussion Questions
1. temperate: moderate or self-restrained, not in excess.
2. The speaker emphasizes imperfect and vacillating extremes of a summers day. He
emphasizes not the beauty of the summers day but its beautiful effect on the person whom the
speaker adores. He compares the fleeting summer day to the eternal beauty of his interest. His
interest makes the summers day look quite undesirable. He would not flatter the summers day
but his rather interest.
3. The summers day is extreme and temporary, but the speakers love possesses an immortall,
permanent beauty.
1. wanton: deliberate and without motive or provocation; un-called for
2. By Line 6.
3. By Line 3, it is a metaphor. Crashaw develops about 9 metaphors.
4. When they are excessively used in metaphor, almost permanently in metaphor. It is that line
that blurs the line between reality and imagination.
5. The conceits do seem obsessive, as they are all describing just a simple tear drop.