Sonnets Edmund Spenser

Renaissance
Sonnets

Edmund Spencer 
William Shakespeare
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Renaissance
Sonnets

Edmund Spencer 
William Shakespeare

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Which motto means ' remember that you are mortal'
A
carpe diem
B
ad fontes
C
memento mori
D
carpe vinum

Slide 2 - Quiz

Which motto was te motto of the Renaissance?
A
carpe diem
B
memento mori
C
a bene placito
D
cave canum

Slide 3 - Quiz

Which wife did not belong to Henry VIII?
A
Anne Boleyn
B
Catherine of Aragon
C
Jane Austen
D
Catherine Howard

Slide 4 - Quiz

In which century did the Renaissance start in England?
A
14th century
B
16th century
C
15th century
D
17th century

Slide 5 - Quiz

Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Geoffrey Chaucer
Humanism
Memento mori
invention of printing
Courtly love tradition
theocentric
culture
anthropocentric
culture

Slide 6 - Drag question

Today:
  • Hand in today's homework (letter professional cuddler)
  • Resit R+J?
  • Sonnets: Reader page 27


Homework Monday:
  • Bring your reader
  • Bring your exam prep books. 
  • Bring your dictionairies 

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Sonnets
- What is a sonnet?
- What parts are in a sonnet?

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Sonnet
Lyrical:
  • not telling a story
  • elevated language
  • expressing feelings
  • About: human emotions / political conviction / admiration for nature

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Grab pen and paper!
Make notes because  today's information will be very useful this year and next year and of course the rest of your life!

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Iambic Pentameter
iambic = one unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed one
pentameter = each line has 5 feet; 5 sets of two syllables

Shall I / com pare / thee to / a sum / mer’s day
syllable
klemtoon

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Introduction
  • Sonetto, Italian for "little song" or "little sound"
  • Lyrical poem of 14 lines 
  • Sonnet is used to investigate a problem, conflict, desire, etc.
  • Specific meter (stressed versus unstressed syllables) 
  • Sonnets contain a volta /turn = a moment in the sonnet where the rhyming scheme changes, as well as the subject matter 

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Petrarchan Sonnet
  • Named after Francesco  Petrarca (1304-1374)
  • Also referred to as the Italian Sonnet
  • 14 lines of the poem are divided as such:
    Octave (8 lines): abba-abba
    Sestet (6 lines): cde-cde OR cd-cd-cd
  • Octave's purpose is to introduce a problem, desire, wish, etc.
  • Sestet introduces the volta, signalled by change in rhyme 

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Shakespearian Sonnet
  • Popularized by Shakespeare (1564-1616), even though the Petrarchan sonnet style was extremely popular at the time! 
  • 14 lines of the poem are divided as such:
    Three quatrains (4 lines):  abab, cdcd, efef
    One couplet (2 lines): gg 
  • The quatrains introduce the problem/theme and explore it
  • The volta is found in the couplet, which resolves the theme

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Shakespearian Sonnet (ctd.)
  • Sonnet's meter is predominantly an iambic pentameter.
  • Each line consists of 10 syllables in total
  • Syllables are divided into 5 pairs, called iambs / iambic feet.
  • An iamb is one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
    When I / do COUNT / the CLOCK / that TELLS / the TIME (sonnet 12)

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Edmund Spenser p. 27

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Edmund Spenser [1552 – 1599]
  • educated in Cambridge but spent most of his life in Ireland as a government official. 

  • His best-known work is The Faerie Queene, a poem  praising England and its Queen Elizabeth I. 

  • Also  known for: the sonnet sequence Amoretti (little love poems)  dedicated to Elizabeth Boyle, the woman he would later marry.

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Slide 20 - Video

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1. Which kind of sonnet is sonnet 75?
A
English : 3 quatrains and a concluding rhyming couplet.
B
Italian: an octave and a sextet.
C
Italian : 3 quatrains and a concluding rhyming couplet.
D
English: an octave and a sextet.

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2. How many syllables per line?
A
Eight, alternately unstressed and stressed.
B
Eight, all stressed.
C
Ten, alternately unstressed and stressed.
D
Ten, all stressed.

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3. What is the rhyme pattern?
A
abab bcbc cdcd ee
B
abba abba cde cde
C
abc abc cdef cdef

Slide 24 - Quiz

4. Which words in line 3 mean the same thing?
A
I/hand
B
agayne/second
C
wrote/with
D
I/it

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5. What does "his" in line 4 refer back to?

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6. Who does "she" in line 5 refer to?
A
The tide
B
The strand
C
Her name
D
The woman that the poet is in love with, i.e. Elizabeth Boyle.

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 In what sense might the man reffered to in line 5 be 'vayne'?

Answer:
‘Vayne’ (old-fashioned spelling of ‘vain’) conveys arrogance: the woman is suggesting that the poet is arrogant to think he can achieve the impossible.

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7. What is the meaning of the phrase
"in vaine" (line 5)
A
‘futile’ or ‘doomed to fail’.
B
'arrogant'
C
'in the countryside'
D
'on the beach'

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8. What examples of alliteration can be found in this poem?
A
none
B
strand/hand; away/pray; fame/name; subdue/renew
C
waves/washed; paynes/pray; dy/dust; verse/vertues
D
came/made/paynes/pray; vayne/in vaine/assay

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Poetry 

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