Literature 3 Amoretti Sonnet 75

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Literature 1

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Road Map
English literature - Lesson 2
Edmund Spenser - Amoretti Sonnet 75

  • Context of Edmund Spenser
  • Language and vocabulary 
  • Literary aspects
  • Reader experience


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Lesson goal
At the end of this class you are able to:

  • analyse a sonnet;
  • describe the use of literary  tools in the work;
  • recognise Edmund Spenser's context;
  • place the work of Spenser in the greater context of English literature;
  • describe the content and meaning of the sonnet discussed.

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Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)




Edmund Spenser
(1552 - 1599)




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Context
  • Edmund Spenser
  • 1552 - 1599
  • family of cloth makers
  • fan of Virgil and Homer
  • Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio
  • Other works: The Faerie Queene, The Shepheardes Calender

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What do you know about ....
the Renaissance / Early Modern Period?

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Context
  • Queen Elizabeth I
  • Absolute monarchy
  • Church of England
  • War with Spain
  • Ireland 

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From 1580 until his death Spenser lived in Ireland as a secretary to the Lord Deputy. He acquired quite some land and property there, which strengthened his position among the gentry. 

'I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too' (Elizabeth I - 'Speech at Tilbury', 1588). 

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Language
Take a look at the lyrics:

What stands out?
vocabulary,
perspective, tone, style

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Literary language 

Rhyme 
Spenserian sonnet
Turn - volta



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Spenserian: in last 2 lines, turn
abab bcbc cdcd ee.

Petrarchan 8 - 6: after line 8 
abba abba cde cde/cdcdcd

Shakespearean 3 quatrains and a couplet
abab, cdcd, efef, gg
Iambic pentameter
A metrical form in which most lines consist of five 'iambs', a unit of rhythm (a 'foot') in poetry consisting of two syllables. The first one is unstressed, the second one stressed. 

One day / I wrote / her name/ upon / the strand
but came / the waves / and wash / ed it / away
Again / I wrote / it with / a se /cond hand
But came  / the tide / and made / my pains / his prey

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Sonnet
A fixed verse form consisting of fourteen lines, usually in in iambic pentameter.

English sonnet: four quatrains (= 4 lines) and a couplet (=2 lines)
Italian sonnet: octave (= 8 lines) and a sestet (6 lines).

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Literary language 
Explicit vs. implicit meaning

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Spenserian: in last 2 lines, turn
abab bcbc cdcd ee.

Petrarchan 8 - 6: after line 8 
abba abba cde cde/cdcdcd

Shakespearean 3 quatrains and a couplet
abab, cdcd, efef, gg
Reading dairy
Note your experiences and ideas of Edmund Spenser's Amoretti, Sonnet 75



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Homework
Find a sonnet, analyse its rhyme scheme and indicate what kind of a sonnet it is. 
Print it, (or write it down) bring it to class and add it to your diary. 

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Lesson goal
At the end of this class you are able to:

  • analyse a sonnet;
  • describe the use of literary  tools in the work;
  • recognise Edmund Spenser's context;
  • describe the content and meaning of the sonnet discussed.

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