The Poet SHAKESPEARES SONNETS Published in 1609 Thomas Thorpe was the publisher Shakespeare did not give his approval Thorpe was cashingin on Shakespeare Before attempting sonnets Shakespeare wrote two ID: 275831
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Shakespeare:The PoetSlide2
SHAKE-SPEARE’S SONNETS
Published in
1609
Thomas Thorpe was the publisher
Shakespeare did
not
give his approval
Thorpe was “cashing-in” on ShakespeareSlide3
Before attempting sonnets, Shakespeare wrote two
narrative
poems:
“
Venus and Adonis
”
“
The Rape of Lucrece
”
Playwrights were
not
considered “serious” authors
Poets were considered refined and well-educated
The act of writing poems would have helped to improve Shakespeare’s image Slide4
This poem is dedicated to…
Henry Wriothesley, Third Earl of Southampton
Patron of Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis
:
respectful but not intimate; trying to gain favor
Lucrece
:
“The love I dedicate to your lordship is without end ... What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours.” Slide5Slide6
Sonnets
Shakespeare wrote
154
sonnets.
A sonnet is a
14
line lyric poem. Slide7
Sonnets 1-126: concern a young man, to “W.H.”
Nobleman
Patron
Sonnets 127-152
: concern a “dark lady”
Sonnets 153-154
: concern love and bathing
This sonnet is for…Slide8
Who is the dark lady?
Dark complexion
Spanish moor
Illegitimate daughter or an earl
Secretive lady
“Dark” forces – physical
Emilia Lanier
Fictional? Slide9
The sonnets have been used a great deal to try and understand
Shakespeare’s Life
, and there have been many guesses as to how he lived. Slide10
Basic themes in sonnets:
Young man should marry and have kids so that he can pass on his good looks.
Young man will never die, he will live on in Shakespeare’s poems.
Upset because his patron helped a rival poetSlide11
Basic themes in sonnets:
Long absence from London
Mad at young man for seducing his lady
Obsessed with the Dark Lady
Hurt by the betrayal of lady and friend
Love passes quickly, time is an enemy
Shakespeare would have been
famous
if he had only written the sonnets. Slide12
Shakespearian Sonnet
English
or
Shakespearean
sonnet, developed first by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Consists of three quatrains and a couplet--that is, it rhymes
abab cdcd efef gg
.
One pattern introduces an idea in the first quatrain, complicates it in the second, complicates it still further in the third, and resolves the whole thing in the final epigrammatic couplet. Slide13
Petrarchan
Sonnet
Italian
or
Petrarchan
sonnet, developed first by Francesco Petrarch
Consists of an octave (or octet) and a sestet—it rhymes:
abbaabba / abbacddc
/
abababab then xyzxyz
/
xyxyxy.
Projects and develops a subject in the octave, then executes a
turn
at the beginning of the sestet, the sestet must in some way release the tension built up in the octave