Module

Paraphrasing
14
Poetry

Module 14 is a continuation of sorts of

Module 13 because it further discusses
paraphrasing.

This

time,

however,

the

demands are greater because most people

do not like reading poetry. Lets focus not just
on reading but also on rewriting poetry too.

Read the poem in the next slide

and appreciate its thought. Then
choose the one best paraphrase
for it provided in the succeeding
slides based on the characteristics
of a good paraphrase which were
discussed in Module 13.

Sonnet CXVI
William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds
Or bends with the remover to remove;
O, no! It is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark;
Whose worths unknown, also his height be taken.
Loves not Times fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickles compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks;
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ nor no man ever loved

Here are the paraphrases to choose from:

Paraphrase A: Sonnet CXVI
Let me not, when true minds get married, say they
are obstacles. Love is not love. Love changes when it
finds changes or bows along with the taker to take.
O, no! Love is always a fixed point that watches
storms and is not blown to and fro. It is the star t
every lost ship, whose value is not known even if it is
measured. Love is not fooled by time, even if red lips
and cheek come within the curving are of times
scythe. Love does not change with times short hours
or weeks, but suffers it out to end of doom. If what I
have said is proven wrong, I never did write anything
or any man ever loved.

Paraphrase B: Sonnet CXIV

Let me not admit to the perfect union
of true minds that there are obstacles.
Love does not change through time. It
stays the same forever. It is fixed. It
guides. Its worth cannot be measured. If
you can prove that what I said is wrong,
then I never wrote anything nor did we
ever experience love.

Paraphrase C: Sonnet CXVI

I believe that nothing stands in the way of the love of
people who fully understand each other. True love does
not change when it finds changes in the beloved. It does
not lessen when some things are taken away from the
loved one. Love is so constant it can withstand lifes
storms. It is like a guiding star to the beloved who may be
compared to a small vessel, like a raft, at sea. As sailors
steer by the North Star, so does the lover chart his
directions according to the guiding star who is his beloved,
so that s/he will not be lost. The value of true love is like
the value of this guiding star. The stars true nature or
value cannot be fully understood or measured even if its

So it is, too, with true love. Even if there are material ways to
measure or demonstrate it, a price cannot be put on love. It
remains largely a mystery. Love does not fall under the power
of time. If time is the ruler of king, then love is not the kings
jester or subject whose main job is to provide the king with
amusement. Even if the physical attributes of the beloved,
such as youth and beauty, fade with age, true love does not
fade. Even if the beloved is claimed by death, at the moment
when time reaps lives with deaths sickle, true love does not
die, true love does not change through the years but even
remains until the end of time.
If all that I have said is proven to be wrong, you might as
well consider that I never did write. If you prove me wrong,