Poetry

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 2

Poetry project

What do you know about poems? 

Does anyone of you ever read poems? 

What do you think this poem means?

Do you know any famous poets? 

- William Shakespeare

- Edgar Allen Poe 

- Oscar Wilde

- Emily Dickinson

What the message in this poem?

Translation of sonnet 18

Shall I compare you to a summer’s day? You are more lovely and more moderate: Harsh winds disturb the delicate buds of May, and summer doesn’t last long enough. Sometimes the sun is too hot, and its golden face is often dimmed by clouds. All beautiful things eventually become less beautiful, either by the experiences of life or by the passing of time. But your eternal beauty won’t fade, nor lose any of its quality. And you will never die, as you will live on in my enduring poetry. As long as there are people still alive to read poems this sonnet will live, and you will live in it.

Shakespeare refers to the beauty of his lover of who we know this would have been a man. But he compares the beauty of the lover with nature: a summer's day, buds of May. 

Another version of a poem is a blackout poem in which you black out a piece of text, but leave open certain words that you want to use. You create sentences with those blackouts and in this way, you create a certain message/line/and so on. 

Assignment

You are going to write your own poem and recite it to class.

It must have eight lines

Its subject is your choice

Explain what the poem is about