PPT-Sonnet XVIII

Shall I compare thee to a Summers Day 1609 William Shakespeare Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day Shall I compare thee to a summers day Thou art more lovely and more temperate . 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.. Lady Mary Wroth. Mary Wroth. 1587-1653. Hailing from a literary family, Lady Mary Wroth is recognized for her creative accomplishments—primarily, a romance and a sonnet sequence (83 sonnets and 20 songs).. “Shall I compare thee to a . Summer’s Day?”. (1609). William Shakespeare . Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? . Thou art more lovely and more temperate. . Michael Drayton. S. Cooperman, 2014. Michael Drayton. 1563-1631. Drayton is considered an important minor poet of the 17. th. century, second only to . Sidney, . Spenser, and Jonson.. As a writer of many historical poems, popular interest in him waned.. “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. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?. Thou art more. lovely and more. temperate. Rough winds. d. o shake the. d. arling buds. o. f May,. And summer’s. l. ease hath all. t. oo short. a. date.. 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. 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. Understanding the forms, meter, rhyme, and other aspects of the sonnet. .. Sonnet Form. A sonnet has 14 lines.. A sonnet must be written in iambic pentameter. A sonnet must follow a specific rhyme scheme, depending on the type of sonnet.. 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. . 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 . TEXT. Let me not to the marriage of true minds. Admit impediments. Love is not love. Which alters when it alteration finds,. Or bends with the remover to remove:. O no! it is an ever-fixed mark . That looks on tempests and is never shaken;. 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.