Literature 6v The Renaissance 2526

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The Renaissance

6VWO Literature

RENAISSANCE

• 1500 - 1625

• Henry VIII is declared Head of the Church of England

• Humanism (Erasmus & Sir Thomas More)

• More individual lifestyles → everyone is important

• Poets show individual feelings → Lyric poetry

• Man’s ideals are more earthbound

• Intense national feelings & popularity Queen Elizabeth 1

• Plays gain popularity

How to analyse a poem:

1. How does it sound? (Rhyme scheme, Rhythm, Flow, Pace…)

2. What are some of the details? (People or objects, references to history or other works)

3. Who is talking? Who are they talking to? (speaker, audience)

4. What does it mean? (Themes, subjects)

5. Can you find examples of literary devices? (symbols, similes, metaphors…)

Shakespearean (or English) Sonnets

• Fourteen lines

• The first twelve lines are divided into
  three quatrains with four lines each.

  • intro theme or problem

  • resolved in last two lines

• Final two lines, called the couplet.

• The rhyme scheme of the quatrains is
  abab cdcd efef.

• The couplet has the rhyme scheme gg.

Iambic Pentameter

• A verse form in which each sonnet line consists of ten syllables.

• The syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet.

• An iamb is a metrical unit made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.

  • An example of an iamb would be good BYE.

• A line of iambic pentameter flows like this:

• duDUM / duDUM / duDUM / duDUM / duDUM.