week 46 Lesson 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Welcome to today's class

Today's lesson:

• Sonnets
• Whoso list to hunt
• Analyse the poem together
• Answer the study questions in Alquin

Goals:

• Understand what a sonnet is
• Is able to distinquish between an Italian and an English sonnet
• Know who Sir Thomas Wyatt was
• Can analyse a poem

What is a sonnet

Sonnets

A sonnet is a poem of 14 lines. 

It is always about human emotions, such as love, hate, pain but also religion.

It always contains a volta, which is a shift in meaning of the poem. Usually this is after the 8th line. In the first 8 lines the poet usually describes an experience, in the last 6 lines he explains his own views or feelings.

The Italian sonnet has:

​- two quatrains (four line passages)​

- Two terces (three line passages)​

- Rhyme pattern: abba abba cdc cdc

​- Iambic pentameter (each line, ten stressed syllables)

The English sonnet (Shakespeare) has:

- three quatrains

​- rhyming couplet​

- rhyme pattern: abab cdcd efef gg

​- Iambic pentameter (each line, ten stressed syllables)

How to tell them apart?​

Obviously you can tell them apart by their rhyming pattern but the easiest thing is to focus on the last two lines. 

If the last two lines don't rhyme, it's Italian. 

If they do rhyme, it's English.

Other important terms

Alliteration:

Repetion of consonant (medeklinker) sounds in words nearby.

Shakespeare – Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time,

Personification:

A form of metaphor. Human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things. This allows writers to create life and motion within inanimate objects, animals, and even abstract ideas by giving them recognizable human behaviours and emotions.

Imagery:

Using figurative language in a way that appeals to our physical senses (beeldspraak)

The cold wind pierced her body. 

Metaphor and Simile

A simile is a metaphor but not all metaphors are similes.

A metaphor compares two things directly by stating that one thing is the other (symbolically, not literally)

’All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players;’ W. Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7.

A simile is a metaphor that uses “like” or “as” in it, 

“As cunning as a fox” or “My love is like a red, red rose.”

Read the information about Sir Thomas Wyatt

Page 15

Let's read the poem together

We'll analyse it afterwards. 

Work on the study questions in twos. 

Let's discuss the answers

Write down 3 things you learned in this lesson.

Have students enter three things they learned in this lesson. With this they can indicate their own learning efficiency of this lesson.

Write down 2 things you want to know more about.

Here, students enter two things they would like to know more about. This not only increases involvement, but also gives them more ownership.

Ask 1 question about something you haven't quite understood yet.

The students indicate here (in question form) with which part of the material they still have difficulty. For the teacher, this not only provides insight into the extent to which the students understand/master the material, but also a good starting point for the next lesson.