BritLit Week89

Shakespearean Sonnet
Look at your worksheet. Using pages 118-120, work out all of the
information in the chart.
Sonnet Content
A sonnet is not just rhythm and meter and a topic.
A Shakespearean sonnet has 3 paragraphs and a conclusion.
Each “paragraph” is called a quatrain. The conclusion is called a couplet.
frustrated that i can't write sonnets...
Review
Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets Wrote them to 3 people:
Fair Youth Dark Lady Rival Poet
Themes are of love of various kinds
Review
Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet
I am not a writer, I'm a reader. I'd love to be a writer, but I'm not. I'm useless when it comes to rhyme and meter Even worse when I must devise a plot. The world looks more like a canvas than a page in a book with rows of black printed lines. Or maybe more like actors on a stage, improvising as the spotlight shines. Some express themselves with paper and pen, and musicians put their words to song. I see the world best through a camera lens, and in that I can see nothing wrong. Except that now I find a writer I must be, Or I am since this was written by me.
Go to each station and finish the instructions with your group. You have 6 minutes at each station.
I will tell you when to change places.
Make notes on what you read!! You have 40 minutes.
Review
Shakespearean Sonnet
14 lines 3 quatrains & couplet abab cdcd efef gg Iambic pentameter
Extra Credit
Write a Shakespearean sonnet
The topic can be about anything
14 lines Octave & sestet Abba abba cdcdcd Iambic pentameter
Spenserian Sonnet
14 lines 3 quatrain & couplet Abab bcbc cdcd ee Iambic pentameter
Sonnets
QUIZ
You have 10 minutes No talking. Put all books and notes away. Cheating = 0%
Timeline
Beowulf 700 AD
Canterbury Tales
1400 AD
Hamlet 1599 AD
It communicates the soul's ideas using very strict rules.
A idea in a sonnet is developed through its stanzas...they are like paragraphs in an essay.
Sonnet Content
OLD ENGLISH
MIDDLE ENGLISH
English: Renaissance
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 1300 AD
Discovery!!!
Around the room are 6 stations. Each place has information about sonnets.
Sonnet 130
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress when she walks treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.