1 / 7

Sonnet 116

Sonnet 116. By William Shakespeare. Sonnet Recap. How many lines? Rhyme scheme? Rhythm? Subject and theme? Who wrote sonnets? . 14: 4-4-4-2 abab cdcd efef gg iambic pentameter Looove Shakespeare, Carol Ann Duffy!. Rubbish!.

melina
Download Presentation

Sonnet 116

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Sonnet 116 By William Shakespeare

  2. Sonnet Recap • How many lines? • Rhyme scheme? • Rhythm? • Subject and theme? • Who wrote sonnets? • 14: 4-4-4-2 • ababcdcdefefgg • iambic pentameter • Looove • Shakespeare, Carol Ann Duffy!

  3. Rubbish! "Sonnet 116 is no more than an exercise in poetic cleverness and star-gazing idealism - it fails to reveal anything meaningful about love or human relationships.“ • Decide whether you agree or disagree with the above statement. • Do you think Shakespeare’s sonnet tells us anything meaningful? • Can we apply it to our own lives? • ...Or do you think it simply parrots a romantic ideal and is just an impressive show of words?

  4. Sonnet Homework EITHER: • Translate the poem into Modern English - be sure to capture all of the sentiments of the original. OR • Write an anti-love sonnet. Be sure to follow the rules of the sonnet form.

More Related