SHAKESPEARIAN SONNETS CHECK OUT THE THREE SONNETS IN

SHAKESPEARIAN SONNETS! CHECK OUT THE THREE SONNETS IN YOUR PACKET AND WORK WITH A PARTNER OR BY YOUR SELF TO DETERMINE THE SIMILARITIES ALL OF THEM SHARE.

SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS

ABOUT SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS: • He wrote 154 of them (!) • In his sonnets he focuses on love, lust, friendship, mortality, and immortality

THE FORMAT OF A SONNET • 14 lines • Lyric poems (short poems with one speaker expressing thoughts and feelings) • Rhyme scheme: • ABAB • CDCD • EFEF • GG • So three quatrains (three stanzas with four lines each where every other line rhymes), then one rhyming couplet (one stanza with two lines where those two lines rhyme)

RHYMES IN A SONNET • Uses both ear-rhymes and eye-rhymes • Ear-rhymes: rhymes in sound (like “increase” and “decrease”) • Eye-rhymes: rhymes in sight (like “compare” and “are”

SONNETS USE IAMBIC PENTAMETER • Each line has 5 metric feet with alternately unstressed and stressed syllables • Each line is ten syllables long • The accent is always on the second syllable • By “iambic”, it means the rhythm goes from an unstressed syllable to a stressed one • This happens in words like: divine, caress, bizarre, and delight • The underlying beat, then, is like a heartbeat

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PLEASE WORK INDEPENDENTLY TO COMPLETE THE SYLLABLES WORKSHEET

STRESSED AND UNSTRESSED SYLLABLES • This is what allows the same word or words to take on different meanings without a different sound.

DISCUS VS DISCUSS

PRESENT VS PRESENT

I SCREAM VS ICE CREAM

IT ALSO CAN BE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN AMERICAN ACCENT AND A BRITISH ONE

ALUMINUM VS ALUMINUM

METRIC FEET U U U Shall I| compare| thee to| a sum|mer’s day?

USE YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF IAMBIC PENTAMETER TO BREAK SONNET 18 INTO: • Metric feet • Stressed and unstressed syllables

READ SONNET 18 (FORGETTING ABOUT THE FORM AND RULES AND SUCH) WITH A PARTNER • And try to identify: • What is the subject of the poem? • What is the purpose of the poem? • How does the speaker feel about summer days? • How does the speaker feel about his/her lover? • What does comparing these two things allow this speaker to say?

READ SONNET 130 WITH A PARTNER • And try to answer: • How is this poem drastically different than Sonnet 18? • Why does the speaker explain his/her love in this way? • How is the couplet different from the rest of the poem?

TONAL SHIFT IN POETRY • Poems are exploration of life and love and experience! They are often written to portray, not just a realization or understanding, but also the journey a person must take to reach that realization or understanding. • What do the first three quatrains say, and then what does the last couplet say?

READ SONNET 29 INDEPENDENTLY AND IDENTIFY (IN THIS ORDER): • What emotions this speaker feels throughout the poem • The tonal shift • The message Shakespeare might be sending through that journey and shift • The metric feet • The stressed and unstressed syllables