PPT-The Sonnet

Contributions by Glenn Everett University of Tennessee at Martin and Vince Gotera University of Northern Iowa The Sonnet A sonnet is a fourteenline 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 . 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. . 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. 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).. 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.. 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. . 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. What form is being used by the poet?. Mini-Read. Reading Indicators . . R.1.3.4. R.1.4.5. R.1.4.9. R.1.4.10. . . My . mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun,. Coral . is far more red than her lips’ red.. 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. “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. 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.