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S O N N E T S

Shakespeare 101Slide2

14 lines (We’ll practice with Sonnet 18)

1 Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 
2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
4 And summer's lease hath all too short a date: 
5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
6 And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; 
7 And every fair from fair sometime declines,
8 By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
9 But thy eternal summer shall not fade
10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
11 Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
12 When in eternal lines to time thou growest: 
13 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
14 So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

What a sonnet looks likeSlide3

What a sonnet sounds like

Iambic

penta(tum)meter

Shall I / com PARE/ thee TO / a SUM / mer’s DAY? Thou ART / more LOVE / ly AND / more TEM / per ATE Slide4

What a sonnet sounds like…

abab

cdcd

efefggShall I compare thee to a summer's day? a
Thou art more lovely and more temperate

:

b

Rough

winds do shake the darling buds

of

May

,

a

And

summer's lease hath all too short a

date:

b


Sometime too hot the eye of heaven

shines,

c

And

often is his gold

complexion

dimm'd

;

d


And every fair from fair sometime

declines,

c

By

chance or nature's changing course

untrimm'd

;

d

But

thy eternal summer shall

not

fade

e

Nor

lose possession of that fair

thou

owest

;

f

Nor

shall Death brag thou

wander'st

in his

shade,

e

When

in eternal lines to time thou

growest

:

f


So long as men can breathe or eyes

can

see

,

g

So

long lives this and this gives life

to

thee

.

gSlide5

How a sonnet is organized

Three quatrains that establish a theme or a problem.

Speaker compares lover to summer

Speaker extends claim that he/she is lovelier than summerSpeaker explains how his lover’s beauty will never fade (like summer’s) because… Slide6

How a sonnet is organized

A rhyming couplet resolves the poem and ends the conflict

Speaker immortalizes lover in his poemSlide7

How to analyze a Shakespearian sonnet

Pay attention to literary devices (what’s on your chart)

Paraphrase like you’ve never paraphrased before.

So, say it your own words. Go line by line and unpack the language so you get it. Then, you’ll be able to say what it means.Slide8

Sonnet 18 Paraphrase

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Shall I

compare you to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:You are more lovely and more constant:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

Rough

winds shake May’s flowers

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

And summer is far too short

Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,

At times the sun is too hot,

And often is his gold complexion

dim’d

;

Or often goes behind the clouds;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

And everything beautiful will lose its beauty,

By chance or nature’s changing course

untrimm’d

;

By misfortune or nature’s predestined course.

But thy

eternal summer shall not fade

But your youth will not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou

owest

;

And you will not lose the

beauty you possess;

Nor shall Death brag though

wander’st

in his shade,

And even

Death cannot claim you,

When in eternal

lines to time thou

growest

:

Because

I have immortalized you in my poem.

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

And as long as there are people on Earth,

So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

My

poem will be alive, too, and make you immortal.