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SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET- No. 1
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Slide3TEXT
From fairest creatures we desire increase,That thereby beauty’s rose might never die,But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,Feed’st thy light’st flame with self-substantial fuel,Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within
thine
own bud
buriest
thy contentAnd, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.Pity the world, or else this glutton be,To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.
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Slide4SUMMARY
In Sonnet 1 Shakespeare compares life to beauty saying how man desires to increase this beauty by having children. He says some men are too self-absorbed in their own lives and deprive the continuation of life. This makes man his own enemy. He implores such men to procreate and continue life’s legacy by having children instead of dying alone leaving nothing on Earth.
In the first quatrain of the Shakespeare Sonnet 1, the theme of beauty and life cycle is introduced. We desire that the “fairest creatures” (Everything and everyone, who is beautiful) should reproduce, in order to pass on their beauty’s rose. As the parents die when the time comes
“But as the riper should by time decease” and are kept alive in the memory of their children “His tender heir might bear his memory”. 9/4/2020
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Slide5SUMMARY
In the next quatrain, the speaker rebukes his lover for being too selfish and proud of his beauty “But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes”.
The speaker further tells that his lover is the biggest enemy and too cruel to himself as he is “making a famine where abundance lies”.
The third quatrain talks about the beauty of the person, which is not permanent. The lover may now be beautiful and fresh “Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament, And only herald to the gaudy spring”. But his beauty will bury with himself and it will be a complete waste as he hasn’t passed his beauty.Finally, in the couplet, the speaker suggests his lover to “Pity the world” and do what is expected from him. or else be like a greedy person who eats everything due to the world.
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Slide6FACTS TO BE KNOWN
The sonnets of Shakespeare are traditionally divided into two major groups: The fair lord sonnets (1-126) and
The dark lady sonnets
(127-154). The fair lord sonnets explore the narrator's consuming infatuation with a young and beautiful man.While the dark lady sonnets, engage his lustful desire for a woman who is not his wife.The sonnets were dedicated to a W. H., whose identity remains a mystery, although William Herbert, the
Earl
of Pembroke, is frequently suggested because Shakespeare's First Folio (1623) was also dedicated to him.
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Slide7HOW TO READ SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET
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Slide8Themes ofShakespearean Sonnets
The Ravages of Time. Platonic Love vs. LustSelfishness and Greed. Self-Deprecation and Inadequacy.
Homoerotic Desire. Financial Bondage.
Colour Symbolism.9/4/2020
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Slide9LONG QUESTION
Q1. Briefly discuss the style of Shakespearean Sonnet While Shakespeare was not the first English poet to use the sonnet form, he did succeed in making it his own, changing its rhyme scheme and developing a distinctive structure that quickly became known as the ‘Shakespearean Sonnet’. Shakespeare’s predecessors had stuck closely to the Italian sonnet form used by Petrarch, which divides the poems into two sections, an octave (the first eight lines) and a sestet (the final six). The Petrarchan
sonnet often has a very strong turn, or ‘volta’, as the verse shifts from the first section to the second, making it the ideal form for expressing two different ideas or contrasting points of view. Shakespeare altered this structure, interweaving the first twelve lines of the poem and abolishing the two-part division of his poetic precursors. This allows his poems to express much more subtle, varied ideas, with each sonnet articulating a variety of different positions relative to its subject. Shakespearean sonnets also culminate in a resounding final couplet that can sound conclusive, offering a pithily memorable restatement of what has gone before: ‘If this be error and upon me proved, / I never writ, nor no man ever loved’ (Sonnet 116, ll. 13–14). Alternatively, the effect of the final couplet can appear inadequate, a deliberately ironic response to the rest of the poem: ‘Therefore I lie with her, and she with me, / And in our faults by lies we flattered be’ (Sonnet 138, ll. 13–14). In this way Shakespeare is able to utilise the final couplet to create quite differing effects.
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Slide10Questions based on Analysis given in earlier slides
Write a brief summary of Shakespeare’s Sonnet No.1 ref. Summary given in the slidesCritically examine the Sonnet No. 19/4/2020
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Slide11INFORMATION
William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". William Shakespeare, Shakespeare also spelled Shakspere, byname Bard of Avon
or Swan of Avon, (baptized April 26, 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England—died April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon), English poet, dramatist, and actor often called the English national poet
Born: April 1564, Stratford –Avon, United KingdomDied : 23 April 1616 Stratford –Avon, United Kingdom
Spouse
: Anne Hathaway (m. 1582-1616)
Education
: King Edward VI School, Stratford –Avon, United Kingdom
Parents
: John Shakespeare, Gilbert Shakespeare
Nicknames
: Bard of Avon, The Bard9/4/2020
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