sonnets & songs

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Sonnets Assignment

Go to your booklet (page 64) or the internet and in the next slide write down as many characteristics of a sonnet you can find.

Sonnet

What is a sonnet?

Italian Sonnet

14 lines

usually 2 parts 
octave - first 8 lines - poet describes situation

Break of thought - volta - turn

sextet - remaining 6 lines - poet's personal views and feelings

Look up on the internet: what is a courtier?

Courtier

A person who is often at court.

A true uomo universale, a perfect human being, learned, civilized, elegant, well dressed, courageous, and a good fighter both in battle and in duels.

 grazia "grace" or charm that marks the true courtier  =
 everything he does should appear natural and effortless.

The courtier has to be a man of many parts, at home in war as well as in peace, a man who will cut a good figure in an elegant conversation or when courting a lady. But it is impossible to reduce the courtier to any of his many roles; the feature that really defines him is none of his individual accomplishments but grazia ('grace').

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)

Courtier

Ambassador and adviser to the king (Henry VIII)

First person to translate Petrach/Petrarca (Italian) 
Went on to write his own poems in a similar style

Remember that the artists of the English renaissance looked to the Italian renaissance artists and mimicked them.

Whoso List to Hunt

Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,

But as for me, alas, I may no more.

The vain travail hath wearied me so sore,

I am of them that furthest cometh behind.

Yet may I by no means my wearied mind

Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore

Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore,

Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.

Whoso list her hunt, I put him out of doubt,

As well as I may spend his time in vain.

And graven with diamonds in letters plain

There is written, her fair neck round about:

Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,

And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.

Assignment "Whoso List to Hunt"

Read the poem together "Whoso List to Hunt"

Do the questions 1-12 in groups

`Taylor Swift - Shake it Off

Metallica - Enter Sandman