Monday, February 5 ~ Sonnets

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SAT Vocab Word #9 - (adj) - GARRULOUS - talkative, someone who talks just for the sake of talking, full of trivial conversation

GRAMMAR - commas

Bedford p. 378, 32e - take notes on this new rule
Exercise  32-3 on p. 382 - We will go over as a class

POETRY - sonnets

Terms to consider:

• iambic pentameter
• volta 
• rhyme scheme
• sonnet
• stanza
• couplet
• octave
• sestet
• quatrain 

• EQ: What is the difference between an Italian vs. a British sonnet? 

  

Here are a couple of examples.... Notice the Iambic Pentameter.

Italian Sonnet aks Petrarchan Sonnet

 British Sonnet aka Shakespearean Sonnet

Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare

 Quatrain 1
     My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;  A
     Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;   B
     If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;   A
     If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.  B

Quatrain 2
     I have seen roses damasked, red and white,  C
     But no such roses see I in her cheeks;  D
     And in some perfumes is there more delight  C
     Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.  D


Quatrain 3
     I love to hear her speak, yet well I know  E
     That music hath a far more pleasing sound;  F
     I grant I never saw a goddess go;  E
     My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.  F


Couplet
     And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare  G
     As any she belied with false compare.  G


Guess the sonnet. Is it British or Italian?


 
HOMEWORK
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