LESSON 6

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

ENGLISH CLASS

TUE

JUN 17

TODAY'S LESSON

• literature lesson 6: sonnets

TODAY'S GOAL

• you know what a sonnet is 

PREVIOUS LESSON

• The Renaissance

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

SONNET

• poem of fourteen lines
• specific rhyme scheme
• ends with resolution or change in thought
• Petrarchan sonnet and Shakespearean sonnet

PETRARCHAN SONNET

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octave

(8 lines)

sestet

(6 lines)

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quatrain >

quatrain >

tercet      >

tercet      >

SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET

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three

quatrains

couplet

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series of questions

express the man

SONNET 18

• likely about a young man
• three quatrains with a question
• shift at line 9
• couplet with conclusion
• beauty is immortalized in poetry

PETRARCHAN VS SHAKESPEAREAN

Petrarchan	Shakespearean
Italy	England
octave + sestet	3 quatrains + couplet
ABBAABBA CDECDE	ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
shift in line 8 or 9	shift at line 9/final couplet
emotional shift	logical progression

EDMUND SPENSER

AMORETTI: SONNET XV

AMORETTI: SONNET XV

• compares physical beauty to material riches
• merchants chasing earthly wealth
• both physically perfect and morally excellent
• enumeration of good qualities 

SONNET 130

SONNET 130

• devoted to a lady's appearance
• ironic tone
• as rare and wonderful as any other woman who is falsely, highly praised

TODAY'S LESSON

• literature lesson 6: sonnets

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