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Poetry Journal The Sonnet

Poetry Journal The Sonnet. Monday, 11-29-10. If you are absent and need to make this up, copy both poems and analyze the structure and meaning of the poem. Turn in your work for the grade. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day by William Shakespeare.

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Poetry Journal The Sonnet

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  1. Poetry JournalThe Sonnet Monday, 11-29-10

  2. If you are absent and need to make this up, copy both poems and analyze the structure and meaning of the poem. Turn in your work for the grade.

  3. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s DaybyWilliam Shakespeare

  4. 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.

  5. 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;

  6. 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:

  7. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

  8. Analyze

  9. English, or Shakespearean Sonnet • Three Quatrains – a four line stanza that acts as a unit (intro, restate, problem) • One Couplet – a two line stanza that acts as a unit • Regular Rhythm – iambic pentameter • Regular Rhyme Scheme

  10. Death Be Not ProudbyJohn Milton

  11. Death be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so,For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures bee,Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,And soonest our best men with thee doe go,Rest of their bones, and souls delivery.

  12. Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,And better then thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?One short sleep past, wee wake eternally,And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

  13. Analyze

  14. Italian, or Petrarchan Sonnet • One Octave – an eight line stanza that acts as a unit • One Sestet – a six line stanza that acts as a unit • Regular Rhythm – iambic pentameter • Regular Rhyme Scheme

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