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. 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. 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. . 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. . “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. 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.. 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. . 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. “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. 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 “. 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.