PPT-AP English Lit.: Klenz Sonnet Workshop

1 What are the characteristics of a traditional sonnet 14 lines Structure based on Petrarchan Italian or Shakespearean English models A volta turnshift Meter iambic pentameter. 2 Fa Fa ther ther up up bove bove is is look look ing ing down down in in love love So So be be care care ful ful lit lit tle tle eyes ears what what you you see Obe hear Additional verses O be careful little mouth what you say O be careful little 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. 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. . 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.. “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 . “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. Amoretti. Exam essay sample. Prompt: For one of the sonnets . below, . write an essay analyzing its message and form..  . . . The . message of Sonnet 30 is an expression of the thrill of the chase. . 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. 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 . 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 . 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 . The term “sonnet” derives from the Italian “. sonetto. ”, a “. little sound or song. ”.. The first examples are those written by . Iacopo. . da. . Lentini. in 1230;. The sonnet establishes its importance as a poetic form with Petrarch’s “. 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. .