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Poem 1

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Poem 1

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  1. Poem 1 • She used to let her golden hair fly free For the wind to toy and tangle and molest; Her eyes were brighter than the radiant west. (Seldom they shine so now.) I used to seePity look out of those deep eyes on me. (“It was false pity,” you would now protest.) I had love’s tinder1 heaped within my breast: What wonder that the flame burned furiously?She did not walk in any mortal way, But with angelic progress; when she spoke, Unearthly voices sang in unison.She seemed divine among the dreary folk Of earth. You say she is not so today? Well, though the bow’s unbent,2 the wound bleeds on.

  2. Poem 2 • When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,I all alone beweep my outcast state,And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless1 cries,And look upon myself and curse my fate,Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope2,With what I most enjoy contented least.Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,Haply3 I think on thee, and then my state,Like to the lark at break of day arisingFrom sullen4 earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate; For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

  3. Poem 3 • Zephyr1 returns, and scatters everywhere New flowers and grass, and company does bring,Procne and Pliopmel,2 in sweet despair, And all the tender colors of the Spring.Never were fields so glad, nor skies so fair: And Jove exults in Venus3 prospering. Love is in all the water, earth, and air, And love possesses every living thing.But to me only heavy sighs return For her who carried in her little hand My heart’s key to her heavenly sojourn.The birds sing loud above the flowering land; Ladies are gracious now. –Where deserts burn The beasts still prowl on the ungreening sand.

  4. Poem 4 • Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments1. Love is not loveWhich alters2 when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O, no! It is an ever-fixéd markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark3,Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken4,Love’s not time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeksWithin his bending sickle’s compass5 come;Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,But bears it out even to the edge of doom6. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

  5. The Sonnet A specific type of poetry

  6. Characteristics • 14 lines • Iambic pentameter • iamb- pair of syllables: one stressed, one unstressed (like a heartbeat) • Pentameter- 5 iambs per line is the meter • So how many syllables will be in each line?

  7. Count: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips' red; These are the first 2 lines from a sonnet by Shakespeare. What you hear is iambic pentameter. 

  8. General Poetry Stuff • Paragraphs in poetry are called ______. • A 2-line rhymed stanza is a _couplet_. • A 3-line stanza is a _triplet or tercet_. • A 4-line stanza is a _quatrain_. • A 5-line stanza is a _cinquain_. • A 6-line stanza is a _sestet or sextet_. • 7-lines _septet_. • 8-lines _octave_.

  9. Types of Sonnets Italian, or Petrarchan • Has an octave and a sestet • The octave (generally) presents a problem or ideal • The sestet (generally) gives a resolution or realizes the ideal • The volta, or turn, occurs at the shift from problem to solution/answer

  10. Types of Sonnets Shakespearean, or English • Has three quatrains and a couplet • Usually the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG • Quatrains may each express a thought or may each express the same thing with a different metaphor • The couplet provides a commentary or closure • Volta may be at line 9 or the couplet

  11. Types of Sonnets The Spenserian • Combines Italian and Shakespearean • Three quatrains and a couplet, but with intertwining rhyme • ABAB BCBC CDCD EE • Volta is generally at the couplet

  12. Sonnet Topics and Tones • Often about love or a woman • Tone of admiration

  13. Friday Riddle: • What question can you never honestly answer yes to?

  14. Friday Riddle: • Feed me and I live, give me drink and I die. What am I?

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