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TODAY’S NEWS 12-10-15

A discussion of different types of sonnets, including Shakespearean, Spenserian, and Petrarchan, featuring analysis of Sonnet 29, Sonnet 30, and Sonnet 169. Explore the themes of love, passion, and unrequited affection in these classic poems.

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TODAY’S NEWS 12-10-15

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  1. TODAY’S NEWS 12-10-15 • Discuss poetry final • sonnets – Shakespearian, Spenserian, Petrarchan (Italian) • Shakespeare in love

  2. Sonnet 29   When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,   I all alone beweep my outcast state*, *condition   And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless* cries, *futile; useless  And look upon myself and curse my fate,   Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,   Featured like him*, like him with friends possessed, *with his features; handsome  Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope*, *intelligence  With what I most enjoy contented least,   Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,   Haply I think on thee, and then my state,   Like to the lark* at break of day arising *English skylark; noted for its   From sullen earth sings hymns at heaven's gate, beautiful song    For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,     That then I scorn to change my state with kings. Number of lines - 14 2. Rhyme scheme - ABAB CDCD EFEF GG 3. Rhythm pattern - Iambic Pentameter 4. Description of types of stanzas – 3 quatrains – 1 couplet 5. Subject – Speaker feels sorry for himself and what he doesn’t have until he thinks about his love.

  3. Sonnet 30 My love is like to ice, and I to fire; How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolv'd through my so-hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat*? *plead with Or how comes it that my exceeding heat Is not delayed by her heart frozen cold; But that I burn much more in boiling sweat, And feel my flames augmented manifold*? *greatly increased What more miraculous thing may be told That fire which all things melts, should harden ice: And ice which is congealed* with senseless cold, *solidified Should kindle fire by wonderful device? Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind*. *nature Number of lines - 14 2. Rhyme scheme – ABAB BCBC CDCD EE 3. Rhythm pattern – Iambic Pentameter 4. Description of types of stanzas – 3 quatrains – 1 couplet 5. Subject of poem – His love rejects him and he grows more passionate – This the power of love – it can do the unexpected

  4. Sonnet 169 Rapt* in the one fond thought that makes me stay *deeply absorbed from other men and walk this world alone, sometimes I have escaped myself and flown to seek the very one that I should flee; So fair and fell* I see her passing by *cruel that the soul trembles to take flight again, so many armed sighs are in her train* *a group of people following This lovely foe to Love himself and me! in attendance And yet, upon that high and clouded brow I seem to see a ray of pity shine, Shedding some light across the grieving heart; so I call back my soul, and when I vow at last to tell her of my hidden pain, I have so much to say I dare not start. Number of lines - 14 Rhyme scheme – ABBACDDC EFGEFG (some slant rhyme) Rhythm pattern – Iambic Pentameter 4. Description of types of stanzas – 1 Octave – 1 Sestet 5. Subject of poem – He’s in love with one who doesn’t love him (unrequited love) – He’s afraid to share his pain – Vacillates between telling or not telling her.

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