Renaissance lesson 3: sonnets + Edmund Spenser + Sonnet 75

Sonnets
Goal: to become a SONNET master
 
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Sonnets
Goal: to become a SONNET master
 

Slide 1 - Diapositive

What do you know about sonnets?

Slide 2 - Carte mentale

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Slide 3 - Vidéo

03:05
What we do know:
A
That Shakespeare is the speaker of the sonnets.
B
That they're probably quite personal.
C
That they're written in the 14th century.

Slide 4 - Quiz

03:05
How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

Slide 5 - Question ouverte

Slide 6 - Diapositive

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Slide 7 - Vidéo

05:04
Answer in your own words: Why did Shakespeare choose Iambic Pentameter?

Slide 8 - Question ouverte

03:37
Explain in your own words:
what is Iambic Pentametre?

Slide 9 - Question ouverte

00:47
Where's the stress in: "Beautiful"
A
beau
B
ti
C
ful

Slide 10 - Quiz

00:47
Where's the stress in: "Reptile"
A
Rep
B
Tile

Slide 11 - Quiz

Slide 12 - Diapositive

Slide 13 - Vidéo

SONNET 75

Slide 14 - Diapositive

Write down the two reasons this poem was written.

Slide 15 - Question ouverte

Slide 16 - Lien

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Slide 17 - Vidéo

1. There are two main kinds of sonnet. Which kind is this one?
A
English: 3 quatrains and a concluding couplet. The last 2 lines rhyme.
B
Italian: an octave and a sestet

Slide 18 - Quiz

2. How many syllables are there per line? (a number)

Slide 19 - Question ouverte

3. What is the rhyme pattern?
A
abba cddc effe gg
B
abab bcbc cdcd ee

Slide 20 - Quiz

4. who is the "I" in line 1?

Slide 21 - Question ouverte

5. what is the "it" in line 2?

Slide 22 - Question ouverte

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

Slide 23 - Quiz

7. What does 'his'in line 4 refer back to?

Slide 24 - Question ouverte

8. What does 'she' in line 5 refer to?
A
The tyde.
B
The woman that the poet is in love with.
C
The poet's mother.
D
The poem.

Slide 25 - Quiz

9. In what sense might the man referred to in line 5 be ‘Vayne’? 

  • '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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10. What is the meaning of the phrase 'in vaine' (line 5), and why does the speaker say that waht the main is attempting is 'in vaine'? 

  • The word ‘vaine’ (the modern equivalent of which is also ‘vain’) means ‘futile’ or ‘doomed to fail’. The line is a play on the two words: it is both arrogant and pointless to suppose that one can overturn the natural order of things by trying to make something everlasting out of something perishable.

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11. What point is the 'I' person making in lines 7 and 8?
  • I myself shall ultimately be obliterated (uitgewist), just as my name is obliterated by the waves.

Slide 28 - Diapositive

12. From line 9, the "I" person of the first line takes up the conversation. What point does that person make in the last six lines?
  • Line 9 marks the break of thought in the sonnet. The poet is opposing the decayb(verval/bederven) of mortal (sterfelijke) things; he is seeking to make his love immortal through his poetry. And, given that we are reading it more than four hundred years later, he has been fairly successful

Slide 29 - Diapositive

13. Rewrite line 11 in modern English and translate it into Dutch.

Slide 30 - Question ouverte

14. 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

Slide 31 - Quiz

15. What examples of assonance can be found in this poem?
A
none
B
came/made/paynes/pray; vayne/ in vaine / assay
C
waves/washed; paynes/pray; dy/dust; verse/vertues

Slide 32 - Quiz

16. Identify the example of personification in the last six lines. (one word!)

Slide 33 - Question ouverte

Question 16 explained
 Death is portrayed as the Grim Reaper, (Magere Hein) seeking to subdue (onderwerpen) the world.

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Slide 36 - Vidéo