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Introducing the Poems with Poetic Form: Shakespearean Sonnet Reading Skill: Analyze Imagery

Selected Poetry by William Shakespeare. Introducing the Poems with Poetic Form: Shakespearean Sonnet Reading Skill: Analyze Imagery. VIDEO TRAILER S. INTRODUCING THE POEMS. Can LOVERS see clearly?. According to an old saying, “Love is blind,”. but to what extent is this true?.

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Introducing the Poems with Poetic Form: Shakespearean Sonnet Reading Skill: Analyze Imagery

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  1. Selected Poetry by William Shakespeare Introducing the Poems with Poetic Form: Shakespearean Sonnet Reading Skill: Analyze Imagery VIDEO TRAILERS

  2. INTRODUCING THE POEMS Can LOVERS see clearly? According to an old saying, “Love is blind,” but to what extent is this true?

  3. INTRODUCING THE POEMS Can LOVERS see clearly? The thrill of falling in love can cloud one’s perceptions of a lover, but usually those clouds drift away over time. Is it possible to see a person’s faults clearly and still love him or her?

  4. INTRODUCING THE POEMS Can LOVERS see clearly? PRESENT Working with a partner, list several fictional lovers from books, movies, or plays. For each couple, answer the question “Did they see each other clearly?” Discuss the reasons for your answers. What conclusions can you draw about the way love is portrayed in fiction? Present your conclusions to the class.

  5. Click on the title to play the trailer. Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 29

  6. Poetic Form: Shakespearean Sonnet Shakespeare wrote very complex and sophisticated sonnets, moving beyond the traditional themes of love and beauty. Envy Pride

  7. Poetic Form: Shakespearean Sonnet The Shakespearean sonnet form,also known as the English sonnet, has the following characteristics: • The sonnet contains three quatrains and a couplet. Love’s not Time’s fool; though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle’s compass come, Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. quatrain couplet • The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.

  8. Poetic Form: Shakespearean Sonnet • There is often a turn,or shift in thought, which occurs in the • third quatrain or the couplet. As you read these four sonnets, notice the way Shakespeare sets up his subjects in the early quatrains and employs the turn near the end.

  9. Analyze Imagery Among the many tools of poets, few are as important as imagery—words and phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the reader. “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May” Although Shakespeare often addresses philosophical themes in his sonnets . . .

  10. Analyze Imagery he breathes life into his ideas by evoking sights sounds, smells, and textures. For example, in “Sonnet 116” Shakespeare uses the image “rosy lips and cheeks” to convey the idea of mortal flesh.

  11. Analyze Imagery As you read the following sonnets, look for language that appeals to your senses. Use a chart like the one shown to identify ideas or emotions that are conveyed through this imagery. Imagery Sonnet Idea or Emotion Conveyed Summer weather can be harsh rough winds 18

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