PPT-Sonnet Review

Sonnet is a 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter Employs one of several rhyme schemes Adheres to a tightly structured thematic organization The poet introduces at least one volta or a jump or shift in direction of the emotions or thought usually somewhat after the middle of the Sonnet. XCVII. William Shakespeare, . Sonnets . (1609). Do it yourself p.69. . Sonnet XCVII. William Shakespeare, Sonnets (1609). How . like. a. winter. . hath. . my. . absence. . been. . From. . thee. the sonnet-ballad. by Gwendolyn Brooks. Oh mother, mother, where is happiness? . They took my lover's tallness off to war,. Left me lamenting. Now I cannot guess . What I can use an empty heart-cup for. . A short history of the sonnet. The term “sonnet” derives from the Italian “. sonetto. ”, a “. little sound or song. ”.. The first examples are those written by . Iacopo. . da. . Lentini. Contributions by Glenn Everett, University of Tennessee at Martin, and Vince Gotera, University of Northern Iowa. The Sonnet. A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a carefully patterned rhyme scheme. Other strict, short poetic forms occur in English poetry (the sestina, the villanelle, and the haiku, for example), but none has been used so successfully by so many different poets. . Edmund Spenser. Edmund Spenser. 1552 - 1599. A Cambridge graduate (with an M.A.), Spenser lived under Elizabeth I’s rule. He wrote . The Faerie . Queene. . in her honor, but it failed to garnish political favor as Spenser held unpopular political views. This remains his most famous work, however. . Elizabeth Barrett Browning. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height . My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight . For the ends of being and ideal grace. . “When I DO Count the Clock. That Tells . the . Time”. (1609). William Shakespeare . When I Do Count the Clock. That tells the Time. When I do count the clock that tells the time, A. 2. And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; B. Is a lyric poem of single stanza consisting fourteen iambic pentameter lines.. English sonnets are of two types:. - Italian or Petrarch an sonnet:-. it’s name after the 14. What form is being used by the poet?. Mini-Read. Reading Indicators . . R.1.3.4. R.1.4.5. R.1.4.9. R.1.4.10. . . My . mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun,. Coral . is far more red than her lips’ red.. EDMUND SPENSER. BIOGRAPHY. Edmund Spenser was one of the greatest poets of Elizabethan England, as evidenced by his masterwork, . The Faerie Queene.. Edmund Spenser published his first important work, The . Rhythm, Meter and Rhyme. 1. 2. What is a sonnet?. A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter. . Iambic Pentameter.  Iambic Pentameter is the rhythm and . meter . in which poets and playwrights wrote in Elizabethan England. . “When I DO Count the Clock. That Tells the Time”. (1609). William Shakespeare . When I Do Count the Clock. That tells the Time. When I do count the clock that tells the time, A. 2. And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; B. Sonnets (1609). Do it yourself p.69. . Sonnet XCVII. William Shakespeare, Sonnets (1609). How . like. a. winter. . hath. . my. . absence. . been. . From. . thee. , . the . pleasure. . of. the . Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (1784) Sonnet Revival Assumptions about the demise of the sonnet after Milton are based mainly on the fact that major authors such as Pope, Dryden and Johnson used the sonnet only sparingly, Pope published sonnets ‘in imitation of Waller’, aged thirteen.