PPT-The Sonnet

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. 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.. 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. . 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. 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.. 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. . “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds”. (1609). William Shakespeare . Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds. Let me not to the marriage of true minds . Admit impediments. Love is not love . 1. . What are the characteristics of a. traditional sonnet?. 14 lines. Structure based on Petrarchan (Italian) or Shakespearean (English) models. A . volta. (turn/shift). Meter (iambic pentameter). Pops Chiarappa, Tyler Roeder, Mitch Washburn. Sonnet 29. When. , in disgrace with fortune and men's . eyes, . I . all alone beweep my outcast . state . And . trouble deaf heaven with my bootless . cries . P. entameter. Purpose. -to examine the structure of a sonnet. -analyze sonnet. What is a sonnet? Review. Sonnet: . 14 line poem that rhymes in a certain pattern. A . sonnet is a poem made up of three quatrains (in iambic . By. Rhonda Baringer . Title. - . Consider the title and make a prediction about what the poem is about.. “My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun”. Shakespeare’s sonnets do not have a title. Most scholars refer to the first line of the sonnet as the title. . 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;.