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Shakespearean Sonnets

Shakespearean Sonnets. Ms. Robbins Ninth Grade Literature Fall 2012. There are many different types of poems. Narratives Lyrics Ballads Elegies Epics Limericks Found poems Haikus Acrostics Sonnets All of these types of poems have specific rhyme schemes and meters.

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Shakespearean Sonnets

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  1. Shakespearean Sonnets Ms. Robbins Ninth Grade Literature Fall 2012

  2. There are many different types of poems • Narratives • Lyrics • Ballads • Elegies • Epics • Limericks • Found poems • Haikus • Acrostics • Sonnets • All of these types of poems have specific rhyme schemes and meters

  3. We will be focusing on… • Sonnets • 14 lined poem • Created in Europe • Credited to a Sicilian poet named Giacomo de Lentini • Comes from the Italian word sonetto • Meaning “little song” • Many different sub-types of sonnets • Italian (also called Petrarchan) • English (also called Shakespearean) • Occitan • Spenserian • Urdu

  4. We will be focusing on… • Shakespearean sonnets • Also called English sonnets • Originally started by Thomas Wyatt in the 16th century • Inspired by Petrarchan sonnets • Popularized by William Shakespeare, the famous poet and playwright • Shakespeare wrote a total of 154 sonnets • Not counting the sonnets that are in his plays • His sonnets don’t have titles; they have numbers • His sonnets were often addressed to people • Women that he wanted to seduce • Men who were young actors in his plays • His mistresses (but never his wife!)

  5. The Shakespearean Sonnet • 14 lines long • Specific stanzas • Three quatrains and one couplet • Specific rhyme scheme • ABAB CDCD EFEF GG • Specific meter • Iambic Pentameter

  6. Iambic WHAT?!? • Iamb = a grouping of two syllables • Pentameter = one line with five groupings 2 x 5 = 10 • So basically, each line has ten syllables

  7. 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 untrimm'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.

  8. Does it meet all the Shakespearean sonnet requirements? • 14 lines? • YES • Three quatrains and one couplet? • YES • Rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG? • YES • Iambic pentameter? • YES

  9. But what does it mean? • Q1: Let’s compare you (my girl) to a day in summer. You’re prettier and don’t make me so hot (angry). You’re not as rough as the wind and you stay around longer than summertime. • Q2: Sometimes the sun is too hot, and it goes away all the time. Also, the beauty of summer doesn’t last because sometimes it rains or turns into fall. • Q3: But your beauty will never go away and you’ll never die. Your life will last as long as time itself. • C: As long as there are humans, this poem will be around. And if this poem is around, then you are still “alive.”

  10. Sonnet 141 In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes,For they in thee a thousand errors note,But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise,Who in despite of view is pleased to dote. Nor are mine ears with thy tongue's tune delighted,Nor tender feeling to base touches prone,Nor taste, nor smell, desire to be invitedTo any sensual feast with thee alone; But my five wits nor my five senses canDissuade one foolish heart from serving thee,Who leaves unswayed the likeness of a man,Thy proud heart's slave and vassal wretch to be. Only my plague thus far I count my gain,That she that makes me sin awards me pain.

  11. Does it meet all the Shakespearean sonnet requirements? • 14 lines? • YES • Three quatrains and one couplet? • YES • Rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG? • YES • Iambic pentameter? • YES

  12. But what does it mean? • Q1: Truthfully, I don’t love you when I look at you because you are ugly. It’s my heart that loves you, despite the fact that my eyes hate you. • Q2: My ears don’t like you either and I don’t want to touch you. I don’t even want to be alone with you. • Q3: But all of my senses hating you doesn’t stop me from loving you with my heart. Even though you kind of look like a man, my heart is a slave to you. • C: It’s both a good thing and a bad thing; you make me want to do bad things but you also gross me out.

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