E.Q.: E.Q.: How can elements of poetry help me better understand a poet’s (Shakespeare’s) meaning? Remember: Think-Tac-Toe is due Friday! Poetry Term Teams (see next slide for instructions) Shakespearian Sonnet 130; Alan Rickman recording and whole-class analysis Prologue Sonnet Sheet Individual Work (handout)

  Each person will receive a piece of computer paper and a number. Write your number on your paper.  Look at the faces of the people in your group. This is your HOMEGROUP.  Now, find your like-number (1s with 1s, 2s with 2s…etc.) and re-seat yourself. Your number captain has an index card with the 2 terms you are responsible for… 1. defining 2. creating a visual 3. providing example Poetry Term Teams

  Return to your HOMEGROUP.  You are now responsible as the sole representative of your 2 poetry terms to teach your HomeGroup, and then write notes for the remaining poetry terms the other members of your HomeGroup present to you. Poetry Term Teams

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare. Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare

  …must be 14 lines  …must be written in iambic pentameter  …must follow a specific rhyme scheme, depending on the type of sonnet  …can be about any subject, though they are often about love or nature.  …introduces a problem or question in the beginning, and a resolution is offered after the turn. A sonnet…

  English/Shakespearean:  It includes three quatrains (groups of four lines) and a couplet (two lines).  The rhyme scheme is often abab cdcd efef gg.  The final couplet is known as a “heroic couplet”  The turn is either after eight lines or ten lines.  Italian/Petrarchan:  It includes an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines).  The rhyme scheme must begin with abbaabba, and can conclude with any variation of c, d, and e (cdecde, cdcdee, etc.).  The turn must occur between the octave and the sestet. Two Types of Sonnets

Petrarchan (Italian) A B AOctave (8 lines) A B AThe TURN C D E CSestet (6 lines) D E Shakespearean A B A B C D C3 quatrains D E FThe TURN E F GRhyming G Couplet Visual Representation of Sonnets