1. Sonnets-Crash Course Review
& some new info…

2. 2/15 In your journal
Draw a cookie and label the parts as we discussed yesterday (if absent-check with peers)

3. Shakespearean Themes of Shakespeare’s sonnets
Complex and less predictable
Time, change, death, love and beauty
Format
Three quatrains & end couplet
Rhyme scheme
Abab cdcd efef gg
Content
1st Quatrain-introduces situation
2nd Quatrain-Situation explored
3rd Quatrain-Shift in thought, a turn, a twist-VOLTA
Couplet-resolves situation

4. Example

7. Spenserian Themes of Spenserian sonnets Format Content
Courtly, romantic love; aspects of love
Format
Iambic pentameter
Three quatrains & end couplet
Interlocking Rhyme scheme-different from Shakespearean
Abab bcbc cdcd ee
Content
Quatrains-major ideas per each
Volta typically 3rd quatrain

8. Spenserian-Sonnet 30
My love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat? Or how comes it that my exceeding heat Is not delayed by her heart-frozen cold, But that I burn much more in boiling sweat, And feel my flames augmented manifold? What more miraculous thing may be told, That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice, And ice which is congealed with senseless cold, Should kindle fire by wonderful device. Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.

9. Petrarchan Themes of Petrarchan sonnets (also called Italian)
Dear Laura…
All kinds of love (unrequited, desperate, eternal, tragic)
Format
Iambic pentameter
Two part structure:
Octave-1st eight lines
Sestet-last six lines (VOLTA)
Rhyme scheme
Abbaabba
Cdcdcd OR cdecde

10. Petrarchan Sonnet 292
NOTE: This is translated from Italian into English, so how well does it maintain the rhyme and rhythm?
The eyes I spoke of once in words that burn, the arms and hands and feet and lovely face that took me from myself for such a space of time and marked me out from other men;
the waving hair of unmixed gold that shone, the smile that flashed with the angelic rays that used to make this earth a paradise, are now a little dust, all feeling gone;
and yet I live, grief and disdain to me, left where the light I cherished never shows, in fragile bark on the tempestuous sea.
Here let my loving song come to a close; the vein of my accustomed art is dry, and this, my lyre, turned at last to tears.
Historical notes: Everyone is dying of the plague. Petrarch loved a woman (Laura) who didn’t return his love. Now she is dead. What message does it show about love?

11. Analysis Practice
Open to page 663-Edgar Allen Poe’s “Sonnet-To Science”
Discuss with your partner the questions at the bottom.
Complete the cookie for it

12. Precis as an intro
One recommended way to write the intro on a rhetorical analysis essay is to write/combine the first three sentences of a rhetorical precis
Try it. For Poe’s “Sonnet-To Science”, write an intro using the format above.

13. In your journal
Read the following sonnet and complete a quick analysis of it: rhetorical purpose, appeals, devices
Sonnet LXXV
So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground; And for the peace of you I hold such strife As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found. Now proud as an enjoyer, and anon Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure; Now counting best to be with you alone, Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure: Sometime all full with feasting on your sight, And by and by clean starved for a look; Possessing or pursuing no delight Save what is had, or must from you be took.    Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,    Or gluttoning on all, or all away.

14. Sonnet Challenge Choose one format to mimic.
You must create a 14 line sonnet about something you LOVE using:
Rhyme
Devices
10 (give or take one or two) syllables in each line
You CANNOT say what the food or object is-you must only describe it
You CAN ONLY write to an object or food. Not a person.
Begin! Due end of class.