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Sonnets

Sonnets . Iambic Pentameter and Sonnet 18. IAMBIC PENTAMETER: a line of poetry that has 5 iambs (or pair of unstressed and stressed syllables). . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qv-sjQHgZ8. Important Symbols . U = Unstressed / = Stressed | = Separates Iambs. Sonnet 18.

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Sonnets

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  1. Sonnets Iambic Pentameter and Sonnet 18

  2. IAMBIC PENTAMETER: a line of poetry that has 5 iambs (or pair of unstressed and stressed syllables). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qv-sjQHgZ8

  3. Important Symbols • U = Unstressed • / = Stressed • | = Separates Iambs

  4. Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date:Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course un-trimm'd;But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee

  5. Sonnet 18: Mark the iambic pentameter Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

  6. About the English or Shakespearean Sonnet • 14 lines in total • 3 quatrains (or group of 4 lines) • 1 couplet • Contain a Volta (a change in subject, tone, or voice) that usually happens in the last quatrain or couplet. • Full of emotional torment and struggle of love and forgiveness, anguish and despair.

  7. Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

  8. Sonnet 18 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

  9. Sonnet 18 • In groups of three, study your assigned line and notecard. • Analyze the line and summarize the overall meaning. • Present to the class. • You have 5 minutes to prepare and 2 minutes to present. • Everyone must speak.

  10. Sonnet 18 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

  11. Sonnet 18 And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course un-trimm'd;

  12. Sonnet 18 But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

  13. Sonnet 18 Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;

  14. Sonnet 18 So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee

  15. Sonnet 18 Commentary • The gender of the addressee is not explicit • The first two quatrains focus on the fair person’s beauty • The poet attempts to compare it to a summer’s day • The timeless beauty far surpasses that of the fleeting, inconstant season. • The theme of the ravages of time predominates • The poet is eternalizing the fair person’s beauty in his verse • The poet describes summer as a season of extremes and disappointments • These imperfections contrast sharply with the poet’s description of the fair person • In line 12 we find the poet’s solution • The poet plans to capture the fair persons’s beauty in his verse • The poem will withstand the ravages of time • Summer as a metaphor for youth, or perhaps beauty or both

  16. Rhyme Scheme Rhyme Scheme is the use rhyme in a pattern as a structural element in a poem.

  17. Rhyme schemes are described using letters that correspond to sets of rhymes. Example: Humpty Dumptysat on a wall, A Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; A All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, B Couldn’t put Humpty together again. B ------------------------------------------------- The rhyme scheme for this poem is: A A B B

  18. Sonnet73 That time of yearthoumayst in me beholdWhenyellowleaves, or none, or few, do hangUponthoseboughswhich shake against the cold,Bare ruinedchoirs, where late the sweetbirdssang.In me thouseest the twilight of suchdayAsaftersunsetfadeth in the west,Which by and by black night doth take away,Death'ssecond self, thatseals up all in rest.In me thousee'st the glowing of suchfireThat on the ashes of hisyouthdothlie,As the death-bed whereonit must expireConsumed with thatwhichitwasnourish'd by.Thisthouperceivest, whichmakesthy love more strong,To love thatwellwhichthou must leave ere long.

  19. Sonnet 130 My mistress' eyes are nothinglike the sun,Coralis far more red, thanherlipsred,Ifsnow be white, whythenherbreasts are dun:Ifhairs be wires, blackwiresgrow on her head:I haveseenrosesdamasked, red and white,But no suchrosessee I in hercheeks,And in some perfumesisthere more delight,Than in the breaththat from mymistressreeks.I love to hearherspeak, yetwell I know,That music hath a far more pleasing sound:I grant I neversaw a goddess go,My mistresswhenshewalkstreads on the ground.And yet by heaven I thinkmy love as rare,Asanyshebelied with false compare.

  20. Homework • Write a sonnet to be read in front of the class on April 25th.

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