G9-Q2-W7-Sonnets PDF

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Fox, The Little Prince “Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves it’s own mark. To have been loved so deeply,...

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” Fox, The Little Prince “Love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves it’s own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.” Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter “No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish can come true.” Cinderella, Cinderella Quarter 2 Week 7: Analyzing Literature  Imagine à Imagery à Images What is - - - is a literary device writers employ to engage IMAGERY? a reader's mind on multiple levels. Sensory imagery explores the five human senses: - sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. Imagery is a - Sensory imagery permits the readers the language that pleasure of arriving at their own judgements and conclusions through perceptual clues. appeals to the - Using sensory imagery makes a passage senses. come alive. It helps readers create a more vivid mental picture of what is happening.  Types of Sensory Imagery VISUAL GUSTATORY TACTILE SIGHT. TASTE. TOUCH. - Visual discriptions and - Flavors including the 5 - temperature, texture physical attribuutes like basic taste – sweet, salty, and many sensations a color, size, shape, etc. bitter, sour and umami human can feel AUDITORY OLFACTORY SMELL. HEARING. - Scent is one of the - The way things sound. most direct triggers of memory, but can b difficult to write about.  Example: Where the Wild Things Are by: Maurice Sendak When I read I visiualized That very night in Max’s room 1. Vines, bushes The forest grew 2. Max is in the wild And grew – 3. Dark and scary room And grew until the ceiling hung 4. Tall trees with vines and the wall became the world all around When Max came to the place 5. Monster music where the wild things are, they 6. Scary yellow eyes with a line down the roared their terrible roar and middle rolled their terrible eyes and 7. Long fingernails – white, dirty and sharp showed their terrible claws. 8. Dirty fangs – yellow, red, black, white  Invictus by William Ernest Henley. Out of the night that covers me, Beyond this place of wrath and tears Black as the pit from pole to pole, Looms but the Horror of the I thank whatever gods may be shade, For my unconquerable soul. And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. It matters not how strait the gate, Under the bludgeonings of chance How charged with punishments My head is bloody, but unbowed. the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul Death, Be Not Proud By John Donne  Awesome Author: FACTS ABOUT DONNE John Donne Full name: John Donne Nationality: British/English Birth Date: January 22, 1572 Death Date: March 31, 1631 ü He was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. Under royal patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London. He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets.  Vocabulary in Focus *Archaic Thee/thou – you Thy – your Dost – do Think’st–second-person singular simple present form of think (you think) Canst – second person singular present of can (you can) Poppy – opium/drugs Swell’st - To be or become filled or puffed up, as with pride, arrogance, or anger.  Death, Be Not Proud Metaphysical Poem – analyzes love, religion and life from a psychological point of view. Structure of the poem Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet in structure In terms of ideas the poem is divided into three quatrains and a couplet – Spencerian. Poem consists of octave and sestet. Arrangement of sestet is unusual since it consists of a quatrain and a couplet. Rhyme scheme: a b b a a b b a c d d c e e Theme: Death is powerless – a passing moment in time before man achieves eternal life. Death is personified as a hateful person whom the poet dislikes. Holy Sonnet: DEATH, BE NOT PROUD Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so; For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. Thou'art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy'or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. QUESTIONS???  What is a Sonnet? Understanding the forms, meter, rhyme, and other aspects of the sonnet. The man who writes a good love sonnet needs not only to be enamored of a woman, but also to be enamored of the sonnet. ~C.S. Lewis~  What is a Sonnet? 1. A sonnet has 14 lines. 2. A sonnet must be written in iambic pentameter. 3. A sonnet must follow a specific rhyme scheme, depending on the type of sonnet. 4. A sonnet can be about any subject, though they are often about love or nature.  English Sonnet 1. An English Sonnet is also called a Shakespearean Sonnet. 2. It includes three quatrains (groups of four lines) and a couplet (two lines). 3. The rhyme scheme is often abab cdcd efef gg. 4. The turn is either after eight lines or ten lines.  Example of an English Sonnet "Sonnet XXIX" When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, A I all alone beweep my outcast state, B And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, A And look upon myself and curse my fate, B Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, C Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, D Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, C With what I most enjoy contented least, D Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising, E Haply I think on thee, and then my state, F (Like to the lark at break of day arising E From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate, F For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, G That then I scorn to change my state with kings. G  Italian Sonnet 1. An Italian Sonnet is also called a Petrarchan Sonnet. 2. It includes an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines). 3. The rhyme scheme must begin with abbaabba, and can conclude with any variation of c, d, and e (cdecde, cdcdee, etc.). 4. The turn (volta) in subject matter or response must occur between the octave and the sestet.  Example of an Italian Sonnet London, 1802 Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: A England hath need of thee: she is a fen B Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, B Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, A Have forfeited their ancient English dower A Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; B Oh! raise us up, return to us again; B And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. A Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart; C Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: D Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, D So didst thou travel on life's common way, E In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart C The lowliest duties on herself did lay. E  Spenserian Sonnet 1. Invented by Edmond Spencer 2. It includes three quatrains (12 lines) and a couplet. 3. The rhyme scheme is abab bcbc cdcd ee 4. The turn is the couplet.  Example of a Spencerian Sonnet "Sonnet LIV" Of this World's theatre in which we stay, A My love like the Spectator idly sits, B Beholding me, that all the pageants play, A Disguising diversely my troubled wits. B Sometimes I joy when glad occasion fits, B And mask in mirth like to a Comedy; C Soon after when my joy to sorrow flits, B I wail and make my woes a Tragedy. C Yet she, beholding me with constant eye, C Delights not in my mirth nor rues my smart; D But when I laugh, she mocks: and when I cry C She laughs and hardens evermore her heart. D What then can move her? If nor mirth nor moan, E She is no woman, but a senseless stone. E Getting Started to Write 1. Let’s take a look again at one of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets so that you can visually see how the poem should look.  Sonnet 73 That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by. This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long.  Quatrain #1: These four lines introduce the main metaphor and theme of the sonnet. That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. Here, we find out that this poem is about a man who’s growing old. He’s comparing his life to the changing of the seasons. The year is coming to a close as fall slowly gives way to winter, and so too is his life. In the first line he makes it clear that he is addressing another person, as he uses the word “thou.” This is the first stage of the sonnet’s argument.  Quatrain #2: The metaphor and the theme are continued and a creative illustration is usually given to further the ideas of the first quatrain. In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. We see the same theme continued here, only now the man has shifted from comparing himself to the end of the year to the end of a day. He has narrowed down his argument from a year to a day. This makes the poem seem more urgent because days pass much more quickly than years do. The creative example we see here is the reference to night being “death’s second self.” Quatrain #3: Here, one of two things occurs: the metaphor is extended, or a twist or conflict is brought into the sonnet, known as the peripeteia, or the volta. This turn is vital and must be in the sonnet, though some writers prefer to place this in the closing couplet. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by. Here, the argument continues and the metaphor shifts to something even more fleeting than a day—a dying fire. Shakespeare chooses not to include the volta here; he decides to keep it for the last two lines of the poem. Let’s take a look at it that so you can see how it functions in the sonnet. Couplet: These two lines summarize the entire sonnet and give the reader something new to think about. They often act as the “thesis” of the poem. This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long. Here, Shakespeare does not continue with another metaphor. Rather, he gives us the volta that must be in the sonnet. The speaker explains that the reason the other person loves him so strongly is because he/she knows that the speaker will soon die. They must experience all the love they can now, before he passes away. This acts as the thesis because he states that their love is strong, and uses the first three quatrains to tell us why their love is strong.  Your Turn! 1. Now that you know all the different sections of the Shakespearean sonnet and understand how each one functions, you’re almost ready to write one of your own. We just need to go over a few things about style and form first. 2. Sonnets require the following stylistically: 1. 3 quatrains 2. 1 couplet 3. 14 lines 4. 10 syllables/line 5. ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme  Your Turn! 1. Compose a sonnet. Pick a topic or emotion you'd like to explore in your sonnet. Sonnets often focus on themes like love, nature, beauty, or time. Draft your sonnet on a long pad paper. Once finalized, print it in a short vellum board paper. Follow the criteria given for the spoken word poetry. Guide: Quatrain 1 (Lines 1-4): Introduce the main theme or idea. Quatrain 2 (Lines 5-8): Develop or expand on the theme. Quatrain 3 (Lines 9-12): Present a shift or new perspective. Couplet (Lines 13-14): Offer a concluding thought or insight.  Thank you and have a nice day J