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Origin of the Sonnet

Origin of the Sonnet . A sonnet is a 14-line lyric poem with a complicated rhyme scheme. Origin of the Sonnet . A sonnet is a 14-line lyric poem with a complicated rhyme scheme.

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Origin of the Sonnet

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  1. Origin of the Sonnet • A sonnet is a 14-line lyric poem with a complicated rhyme scheme.

  2. Origin of the Sonnet • A sonnet is a 14-line lyric poem with a complicated rhyme scheme. • Because of the technical skill required to write a sonnet, the form has challenged English poets for hundreds of years.

  3. Origin of the Sonnet • A sonnet is a 14-line lyric poem with a complicated rhyme scheme. • Because of the technical skill required to write a sonnet, the form has challenged English poets for hundreds of years. • Sonnet comes from the world “little song.”

  4. Petrarchansonnet

  5. Petrarchansonnet • The great Italian poet Petrarch perfected the Italian sonnet (Petrarchan Sonnet).

  6. Petrarchan Sonnet • The great Italian poet Petrarch perfected the Italian sonnet (Petrarchan Sonnet). • He thought the melody of a sonnet was perfect for love poems.

  7. Petrarchan Sonnet • The great Italian poet Petrarch perfected the Italian sonnet (Petrarchan Sonnet). • He thought the melody of a sonnet was perfect for love poems. • Petrarch wrote over 300 sonnets detailing his devotion to a beautiful but unobtainable lady, whom he called Laura.

  8. English Sonnet Shakespearean Sonnet

  9. English Sonnet • The English Sonnet begins with Sir Thomas Wyatt—another devoted, love poet.

  10. English Sonnet • The English Sonnet begins with Sir Thomas Wyatt—another devoted, love poet. • It was rumored that Wyatt was in love with queen Anne Boleyn.

  11. English Sonnet– Fun Fact! • Henry VIII, although brutal to his wives, encouraged the poetry of courtly love and so welcomed the sonnet as a poetic form.

  12. Shakespearean Sonnet • The English Sonnet soon became the Shakespearean Sonnet because William Shakespeare used it with such distinction.

  13. Shakespearean Sonnet • Instead of limited himself to the subject of love, he introduced deep philosophical issues and perplexing ironies.

  14. What makes a Poem a Sonnet

  15. What makes a Poem a Sonnet

  16. What makes a Poem a Sonnet

  17. What makes a Poem a Sonnet

  18. Differences

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  25. Strategies for Reading • Read the sonnet several times. • Use letters to label the rhyme scheme. • Identify the major units of thought or feeling. • Describe the situation introduced in the first part of the sonnet. • Paraphrase the speaker’s final resolution of, conclusions about, or reaction to the situation. • Study the imagery and figurative language for clues to the emotions expressed.

  26. Shakespearean Sonnet: 73 That time of year though mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughts which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang

  27. Shakespearean Sonnet: 73 In me thou see’st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.

  28. Shakespearean Sonnet: 73 In me though see’st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the deathbed whereon it must expire, Consumed with that which it has nourished by.

  29. Shakespearean Sonnet: 73 This though perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which though must leave ere long.

  30. Reminder • Bring your book tomorrow!

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