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The love Sonnet

The love Sonnet. Act 1, scene 5. Sonnet. What is a sonnet? a poem that contains 14 lines and has a rhyme scheme (pattern) In Shakespearean time, it is regarded as highest form of love poetry What is a Shakespearean sonnet? must contain 14 lines h ave a rhyme scheme

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The love Sonnet

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  1. The love Sonnet Act 1, scene 5

  2. Sonnet • What is a sonnet? • a poem that contains 14 lines and has a rhyme scheme (pattern) • In Shakespearean time, it is regarded as highest form of love poetry • What is a Shakespearean sonnet? • must contain 14 lines • have a rhyme scheme • Shakespearean sonnet = a-b-a-b/c-d-c-d/e-f-e-f/g-g • written in iambic pentameter (duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH)

  3. What do these words mean? • Profane: to abuse something sacred (also, as in ‘bad’ or ‘profane’ language) • Saint: person who died and was officially recognized by the Catholic church as holy. Catholics believe a person can ask a saint to speak for him/her to God to grant a prayer • Pilgrim: person who travels to a holy place out of devotion to a God or saint • Shrine: place where pilgrims visit for prayer and to worship a saint. Often a statue of the saint or a relic (bit of cloth, bone, or body part) belonging to the saint is there • Palmer: person wearing two crossed palm leaves as a sign of pilgrimmage to the holy land

  4. Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss • Summary: Romeo decides he wants to kiss Juliet’s hand to show her how much he likes her. To do so, he takes her hand in his, and he explains that his hand is obviously not as worthy as hers. In fact, she is so worthy, she is like what? (HINT: look at the second line)

  5. Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss • Romeo says that if by touching her he has ‘profaned’ her hand - if he has made it less holy – then he is willing to kiss her hand, to make up for his unworthy touch. • Romeo’s metaphor to describe his lips: Romeo’s lips = _____ _______ ________.

  6. Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss • In line 2, Romeo uses a metaphor to describe the kiss he will give Juliet’s hand. What two words are the other half of the metaphor? • Romeo’s kiss on her hand = ___________ ________.

  7. Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch And palm to palm is holy palmer’s kiss. • Juliet accepts the compliment that plays along with Romeo, calling him by a new name. • What words does she use to describe Romeo in the first line?

  8. Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch And palm to palm is holy palmer’s kiss. • But Juliet isn’t going to give in to Romeo or his word play that easily. Rather than saying, “No, you can’t kiss me,” she plays hard to get: “Oh, you’ve been too mean to your hand by saying it’s the ‘unworthiest.’” • She says that even pilgrims can touch the hand of a saint (imagine a pilgrim rubbing the hand of a statue as he prays; that often happened at shrines) • In other words, he could touch her hand, and their two palms together would be like a holy palmer’s prayer because pilgrims put two hands together to pray.

  9. Romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? Juliet: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer. • Romeo, not to be argued out of kissing Juliet, asks, “Don’t saints and pilgrims have lips too?” • Juliet responds, “Yes, they have lips, but those lips are meant for PRAYER, rather than kissing.”

  10. Romeo: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do Then pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. • Romeo argues that if lips are meant for prayer, then let lips pray the same way that hands pray – in other words, let their two sets of lips come together in a kiss • Romeo says that if she doesn’t let lips pray, they will lose their faith and become depressed.

  11. Juliet: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake. • Juliet still hasn’t given in to Romeo BUT gives him an opening • She says they “grant for prayer’s sake” – in other words saints give pilgrims what they are requesting in their prayers SO, if Romeo is praying at this holy saint’s shrine (Juliet), maybe she will grant his prayer.

  12. Romeo: Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take. • Romeo moves in for a kiss, as she stands still and then… kisses Juliet!

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