This lesson contains 19 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.
Items in this lesson
Renaissance
Sonnets
Edmund Spencer
William Shakespeare
Slide 1 - Slide
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 Spain
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
Sonnets
- What is a sonnet?
- What parts are in a sonnet?
Slide 7 - Slide
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 rhyming pattern (e.g. abba-abba)
Specific meter (stressed versus unstressed syllables)
Sonnets contain a volta = a moment in the sonnet where the rhyming scheme changes, as well as the subject matter
Slide 8 - Slide
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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Slide 13 - Slide
Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
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Shakespeare - Sonnet 73
Take a look at sonnet 73 by Shakespeare and answer the following questions:
1. Which rhyme scheme is used?
2. In which line does the 'volta' start? How can you tell?
Slide 15 - Slide
Shakespeare - Sonnet 73
Answers:
1. Sonnet 73 is a Shakespearean sonnet. This means that the poem has three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet. It has an ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme and it is composed in iambic pentameter
Slide 16 - Slide
Shakespeare - Sonnet 73
Answers:
The volta occurs in line 13. "This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong." The theme of the sonnet is the idea that although with the passage of time and the inevitability of death, it is important to cherish the time we have on Earth with those we love.