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Understanding English Sonnets and Gender Roles in Shakespeare

Explore English sonnets and iambic pentameter, as well as reflecting on gender roles in Shakespeare's time. Learn about the structure, rhyme scheme, meter, and rhythm of English sonnets. Delve into iambic pentameter, blank verse, and their significance in Shakespearean works.

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Understanding English Sonnets and Gender Roles in Shakespeare

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  1. Thursday, February 9thToday is an “A” Day Class Objectives By the end of class today, you will: • Know the structure of the English Sonnet and iambic pentameter (including meter, rhythm, and blank verse) used by Shakespeare • Express your opinion in writing of your gender’s role in Shakespeare’s time (see writing prompt slide)

  2. Agenda • Iambic pentameter review and activity • Quiz on sonnets and iambic pentameter • Writing prompt on gender roles in Romeo and Juliet’s time (see slide with writing prompt.)

  3. Agenda • SSR Note: No Reading Summary Today

  4. English Sonnet • The English sonnet has fourteen lines divided into threestanzas and one couplet. • It also has a certain rhyme scheme.

  5. English/Shakespearean Sonnet Stanza: Rhyme scheme: a b a b Quatrain 4 lines c d c d Quatrain 4 lines e f e f Quatrain 4 lines Couplet g g 2 lines

  6. English Sonnet • English Sonnets have a certain meter(beat) • This meter is called iambic pentameter.

  7. Iambic pentameter • Good BYE/good BYE/good BYE/good BYE/good BYE iamb (iambic foot=1 pair) Example: This entire line Unstressed + stressed syllable 5 pairs = iambic pentameter

  8. Iambic pentameter Iambic pentameter: Each line=10 syllables = 5 pairs ofsyllables. Pattern:unstressedstressed.

  9. Examples • I AM/a PI/rate WITH/a WOOD/en LEG

  10. Examples • When I/do COUNT/the CLOCK/that TELLS/the TIME (Sonnet 12) • When IN/disGRACE/with FOR/tune AND/ men’s EYESI ALL/aLONE/be WEEP/my OUT/cast STATE (Sonnet 29) • Shall I/comPARE/thee TO/a SUM/mer’s DAY? • Thou ART/more LOVE/ly AND/more TEM/per ATE (Sonnet 18)

  11. Meter • The regular pattern of accented and unaccentedsyllables in a line of poetry.

  12. Rhythm • Uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat or accent.

  13. Blank Verse • Unrhymediambicpentameter is called blank verse. • Blank verse is what Shakespeare used to write most of his plays

  14. You have ten minutes to answer the question: Knowing what you know about gender roles, would you have been ok in the time of Romeo and Juliet? Why or why not?

  15. Assignments • No assignment this weekend! Read!

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