Buter literature 6v lesson 5/6 Edward Spenser
Edmund Spenser p. 20
- Study p. 20 and 21
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Edmund Spenser p. 20
- Study p. 20 and 21
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Do the questions on p. 21 Use the tips
- English sonnet: 3x.....and 1 last...+ rhyme
- 10. Stress? Meter?
- scheme
- The poet. What does he do?
- Something to do with his beloved
- a.....+ s......
- referring back to....
- his beloved....see text
- Vayne is now written as.....,meaning futile or doomed to fail......
- More meanins....
- comparing I myself and his beloved
- The turn, volta described
- , 14, 15: assonance inner rhyme
Slide 2 - Diapositive
homework:
- Discussion/checking answers p. 21
- Read and summarize Christopher Marlowe p. 22,23
- Read p. 26,27, 28 William Shakespeare
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Key p. 21
- This is not Italian, but English: three quatrains and a concluding couplet. The last two lines rhyme.
- Ten sylllables; alternately stressed and unstressed. metre: Iambic pentameter.
- abab;cdcd;ee
- The poet, i.e. the man who is wooing his beloved
- her name
- again/second
- the tide
- The woman that the poet is in love with, i.e Elisabeth Boyle
- Vayne (old-fashioned for 'vain') conveys ' arrogance': the woman is suggesting that the poet is arrogant to think he can achieve the impossible.
- The word 'vaine' (the modern equivalent of which is also 'vain') means 'furtile' or 'doomedto fail'. The line is a play on 2 words: it is both arrogant and pointless to suppose that one can change natural order (mortal-immortalize)
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follow up key p.21
11. I myself shall ultimately be obliterated, just as my name is obliterated by the waves.
12. Line 9 marks the break of thought in the sonnet. He opposes the decay of mortal things; he is seeking a way to make his love immortal through his poetry. And, given that we are reading it more than 400 hundred ears later, he has been fairly successful.
13. My verse - shall eternize - your rare virtues (deugden) = mijn gedicht zal jouw zeldzame deugden vereeuwigen.
14. Alliteration:waves/washèd (accent is for the stress in the line (10 syllabels) ; paynes/pray; dy/dust; verse/vertues
15. Assonance: came/made; paynes/pray; vayne/ in vaine/assay
16. Line 13: Personifaction of Death. Not a real person, but is portrayed as ' The Grim Reaper', seeking to dubdue the world. (capitalized in the line) Not a real human.
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things about Shakespeare
- Study William Shakespeare in your literature magazine p.26-29
- Try to answer the questions p, 28/29
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KEY p. 28
- No, because that would be to compare you to something whose beauty is flawed.2.
- Summer is generally regarded as something beautiful and agreeable.
- The beauty of the summer can be spoilt bt=y rough winds; summer's beauty is short-;ived.
- The sun
- The sun
- The natural cycle of life (which involves aging)
- Everything loses its beauty, either through bad luck or as a result of aging.
- Between lines 8 and 9. The first eight lines are mainly about the season summer; the final sich lines are about making his lover's summer (i.e. beauty) immortal.
- In nature, everythng ultimately loses his beauty, but you will never lose yours.
- Line 11: Death. 'Death' is turned intp a name bij giving it a capital letter, and Death is said to brag, a person only can do.
- The poem. 12. As long there are reading people to read and see, they will read about you=immortality. 13. The world is included mainly to create a line with ten alternately stressed syllables. The inclusion of 'do' also emphasis the verb I really love you.
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Key p. 29
- it's an English or Shakespearian sonnet. It ends with a concluding couplet that contains the main message of the poem.
- Bewteen line 12 and 13. This is apparent both from the content (the first twelve lines are saying that the poet's beloved doesn't possess various extraordinary qualities, whereas the last two lines are saying she is nevertheless very special) and for the use of ' yet'. The layout (indentation of the last 2 linens) draws attention to this as well. This is usual in a Shakespearian sonnet (called the ' volta')
- a: They aren't as bright as the sun; b. They are nowhere as red as coral; c.it isn't as whit as snow, in particular, her breasts are more of a dull creamy colour; d. it is like a lot of b;ack wires;e.They aren't the colour of roses;f. She doesn't smell as nice as some perfumes;g. It is pleasant enough, but not as nice as music;h. She walks on the ground like any mortal; she doesn't float across like a goddess
- The last two lines. They counterbalance - even outweigh - the whole of the previous 12 lines. They effectively say thath the content of the preceding lines doesn't matter. The conclusion always carries the central message in the sonnet.
- your own serious, acceptable viewpoint, but it might be difficult to see who is meant to be the poet's beloved. He talks always what she is not like and not what she is like.
- Any appropriate example
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Key p. 32
1. It creates a picture of them being disturbed by a genrle summer breezeand helps to make spot sound idyllic.
2. Senses: sight: you will see all the beautiful things described. Smell and possibly taste: smell the wild thyme, wish you could taste some; the other wilde flowers have strong and attractive smells; touch: there is a gentle breeze that you will feel; the bank a warm bed, covered with wild plants; hearing: under the canopy: like to be sheltered there and it is quiet, but you might hear the breeze.
3. own answer
4a: the world of the Athenian aristocracy, involving Theseus, King of Athens and his courtiers (persons who give advice and live at the court.
4b. The world of the fairies, represented by Oberon, Titania, Puck and others
4c. The world of the ordinary working class people, in the form of Bottom (the weaver) and his friends rehearsing their play.
5. The play is set outside the city in a large wood. A such, it is outside the rules and laws of ordinary society, in a wild environment where nature (and its magic) prevails, rather than mankind.
6. True love (introduced by magic in one case)
