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Maritess B. Lamela and Rosario G. Gules Tabon M. Estrella National High School

SONNETS. Maritess B. Lamela and Rosario G. Gules Tabon M. Estrella National High School mblamela@gmail.com and lannox@gmail.com. An. Online. Hunt. Treasure. Sonnets, like any form of poetry, express deep feelings and emotions in a unique way.

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Maritess B. Lamela and Rosario G. Gules Tabon M. Estrella National High School

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  1. SONNETS Maritess B. Lamela and Rosario G. Gules Tabon M. Estrella National High School mblamela@gmail.com and lannox@gmail.com An Online Hunt Treasure

  2. Sonnets, like any form of poetry, express deep feelings and emotions in a unique way.

  3. Working in groups of three, you will read Web resources on sonnets. Your reading will be guided by questions, each of which you have to answer using information from the websites. • Write down your answers and be ready to discuss them in class. When you are done with the questions, work on the Big Question.

  4. Everyone in the group should work together. Observe courtesy at all times.

  5. Sonnets from the Portuguese 14: If Thou By Elizabeth Barrett Browning If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say I love her for her smile ... her look ... her way Of speaking gently, ... for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day'— For these things in themselves, Belovèd, may Be changed, or change for thee,—and love, so wrought, May be unwrought so. Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,— A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby! But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.

  6. Questions: • What is a sonnet? What are its distinguishing characteristics? • Differentiate the Italian sonnet from the English sonnet in terms of form and rhyme scheme. • Depending on type, sonnets are made up of three quatrains and a couplet, or an octave and a sestet. What do these terms mean? • What is more important than the rhyme scheme and rhythm (typically the use of the iambic pentameter) in a sonnet? Hint: This has to do with the structure or organization of meaning in a sonnet.

  7. e. What is her main message? State this in your own words.f. At which line does the volta (the “turn” where the second idea of the poem is introduced) in Browning’s sonnet begin?g. What basic structure does the sonnet follow? Is it Shakespearian or Petrarchan in structure? Hint: Consider the rhyme scheme. • Are sonnets good only for the Italians and the English? And are they good only for people who lived in an earlier time? What is their appeal, if any, to you and your generation? Hint: Consider the subject matter of sonnets.

  8. Read Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s sonnet “If thou must love me” (in Sonnets from the Portuguese). Analyze it using the following questions as guide: a. Who is speaking in the poem?b. Who is the speaker in the poem speaking to?c. Why does she not want to be loved for her “smile”, her “look”, or “her way of speaking gently”? Answer in your own words.d. Why does she say “do not love me...for pity’s sake”? Answer in your own words.

  9. Web Resources The Sonnet Tradition in English Literaturehttp://athena.english.vt.edu/~jmooney/renmats/sonnets.htmBasic Sonnet Formshttp://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htmThe Italian/Petrarchan Sonnethttp://homepages.wmich.edu/~k1kwan/italiansonnet.htmLove Poem Basicshttp://www.electpress.com/loveandromance/page100.htmSonnets from the Portuguesehttp://www.briangroover.com/BG/Poetry.asp?PID=23

  10. Rubrics for Writing Poems

  11. Big Question Write your own sonnet! Here are two websites that teach you how to write a sonnet. http://www.sonnets.org/write.htm http://www.sonnets.org/advice.htm Write the sonnet as a group (only one sonnet per group). If you choose to write a Shakespearian sonnet (or a sonnet following this form), you can divide the labor among the three of you by having each one write a quatrain and then together writing the last couplet.To get you started, may I suggest that you write a sonnet about friendship or a topic that is familiar to you. Your sonnet can be humorous, too.You have two days to write your sonnet. Happy writing.

  12. FOOD FOR THOUGHT • She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

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