This lesson contains 32 slides, with text slides and 2 videos.
Lesson duration is: 50 min
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BEST WISHES
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Slide 2 - Video
Wednesday the 24th of November
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
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Wednesday the 24 th of November
Reading ( book) 10 min
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
Discuss the poem
Answer the questions
Literature fragment and online questions
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Sonnet 18
Sonnets were composed between 1593 and 1601
Shakespearen sonnet:
3 quatrains (4 lines)
2 couplets ( 2 lines)
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Sonnet 18
Begins with a question; is it a good idea to compare you to a summer's day
he creates a methapor between summer and beloved
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Sonnet 18
Thou are more lovely and more temperate;
person is more beautiful than a summer's day
person is more temperate; persistently milder and calmer
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Sonnet 18
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May:
beauty of summer is not everlasting
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Sonnet 18
And summer's lease hath all to short a date:
personification of Summer. Takes out a lease with nature
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2nd quatrain
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd
And every fair from fair sometimes declined
By chance of nature's changing course untrimmed
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2nd quatrain
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines:
methapor of the sun, at times the sun is too hot
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2nd quatrain
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd: sometimes the sun is dimm'd or blocked by clouds
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2nd quatrain
And every fair from fair sometimes declined
eventually beautiful thing will come to an end
alliteration
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2nd quatrain
By chance of nature's changing course untrimmed: beauty will fade by bad luck or because of natural causes
untrimm'd= lack of ornament / decoration
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3rd quatrain
Nor shall death brag thou wanders in his shade; death will not be able to claim you
personification of death
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3rd quatrain
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
eternal lines/ methapor of poetry
you will grow as time grows
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Final couplet
So long as men can breath or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee: As long as people are alive and can read this poem this poem wil live/will give you life > beloved is eternalized in this poem
This sonnet presents presents the extreme ideal of romantic love. It forces in its emotional conviction
Love never changes, fades, outlasts death and admits no flaw
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Wednesday the 2nd of December
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Cito deel 2
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Monday the 14th of December
Finish the questions Ozymandias/ My last duchess
Work on watching and listening/ exam texts in Woots
(you tube > my last duchess/Ozymandias
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Shakespeare
Monday the 20th of December
Sonnet 130
Chimney Sweeper
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Sonnet 130
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The Chimney Sweeper by William Blake
William Blake wrote two poems which he both called 'The Chimney Sweeper'
The first poem was published in 1789, the second one in 1794.
Both poems address the fate of young chimney sweepers from the 18th and 19th century who were often 'sold' by their parents to work in miserable conditions sweeping chimneys