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Monday December 4

Today: poetry

Spenser: sonnet 75 techniques:

iambic pentameter

alliteration

personification

enjambent

metaphor

Sonnet 75 techniques:

iambic pentameter

alliteration

personification

enjambent

metaphor

Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)

poet + playwright

satire

On Giles and Joan

Do questions

Shakespeare sonnets

Shakespearean/English sonnet

14 lines

rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg (3 quartrains/1 couplet)

break/volta before the last two lines: efef/ gg: 

last two lines: message

iambic pentameter:

(= one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable)

 

Shakespeare's themes

- Destructive power of time.

- Human life and beauty will end.

- Immortalize his lover through verse.

William Herbert 3rd earl

 of Pembroke

(1580 - 1630)

Mary Fitton (1578 - 1647)

The Dark Lady

Shakespeare sonnet 18

Homework for Thursday:

Do questions on sonnet 18

Bring earphones/laptop (WOOTS)+

VWO 2023 I

Homework for today:

Reader: Read/ Study  An Introduction + An Introduction to Royal Renaissance Henry VIII +Elizabeth I+ James I + Spenser