Part a: which statement best illustrates an overall theme from shakespeare’s “sonnet 5”? [rl.2] a. despite apparent loss, the essence of beauty transcends superficial changes. b. not even beauty can resist the damaging effects of the passage of time. c. the fact that all things eventually perish is the source of the beauty of the present. d. because time changes all things, one must consider what the future might bring. 4. part b: which lines from the poem provide the best support for the answer to part [rl.1] a? a. “those hours, that with gentle work did frame / the lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, / will play the tyrants to the very same” (lines 1-3) b. “for never-resting time leads summer on / to hideous winter, and confounds him there” (lines 5-6) c. “beauty o’er-snowed and bareness everywhere: / then were not summer’s distillation left / a liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass” (lines 8-10) d. “but flowers distill’d, though they with winter meet, / leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.” (lines 13-14)