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Objectives:
Students will study Petrarchan (Italian)
sonnets in order to compare
Shakespeare’s Juliet with Petrarch’s
Laura.
HW:
Objective2
• Students will study iambic pentameter in
order to understand how Shakespeare
uses the form.
Warm-Up
What are the major conflicts so far in
“Romeo and Juliet”?
Warm Up2
• Why doesn’t Lord Capulet consent to the
marriage of Juliet and Paris? What does
he suggest instead?
Petrarch
Francesco Petrarca- July 20,
1304 – July 19, 1374
an Italian scholar, poet and one
of the earliest Renaissance
humanists
• Spent his
childhood near
Florence
• Lived in
Bologna and
finally in Venice.
Petrarch
• Born just after 1300 near Florence, Italy in a time
and place where few could read and write
• Lost his mother and father while he was young
• Many of his friends and family died of the plague
• Treated like a celebrity for his writings
• Influenced many, including Shakespeare
• Died in 1374 writing- pen in his hand.
More Petrarch…
• Credited to developing (not inventing) the
sonnet
• Spread sonnet to other European
countries
• One of the first people to call the Middle
Ages the “Dark Ages”
• Worked as a priest, but had several
children.
•On April 6, 1327, Good Friday, after
giving up his vocation as a priest, the
sight of a woman called "Laura" in the
church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon
awoke in him a lasting passion, "
•Laura may have been Laura de
Noves, the wife of Count Hugues de
Sade (ancestor of the Marquis de
Sade)
•Very lovely and dignified
•Was already married and had almost
no contact with Petrarch
•Influenced Petrarch to
write exclamatory and not
persuasive poems.
•Described in religious
terms
•Wrote 365 poems to her
•Love at first sight
Sonnets to
Laura
Sonnets to Laura
• Causes Petrarch joy, but,
since the love is
unrequited it is also a
source of unending grief.
• Exclaim Laura to be
untouchable; on a
pedestal; Too good for
him.
Sonnet Timeline
Petrarch’s
Sonnets
Describe the
speaker. Who
does he
resemble in
Romeo and Juliet?
The eyes I spoke of once in words that burn,
the arms and hands and feet and lovely face
that took me from myself for such a space
of time and marked me out from other men;
the waving hair of unmixed gold that shone,
the smile that flashed with the angelic rays
that used to make this earth a paradise,
are now a little dust, all feeling gone;
and yet I live, grief and disdain to me,
left where the light I cherished never shows,
in fragile bark on the tempestuous sea.
Here let my loving song come to a close;
the vein of my accustomed art is dry,
and this, my lyre, turned at last to tears.
The lady. The muse.
• In the following poem,
describe the lady to
whom the poem is
written as well as the
speaker.
It was the day the sun's ray had turned pale
with pity for the suffering of his Maker
when I was caught, and I put up no fight,
my lady, for your lovely eyes had bound me.
It seemed no time to be on guard against
Love's blows; therefore, I went my way
secure and fearless—so, all my misfortunes
began in midst of universal woe.
Love found me all disarmed and found the way
was clear to reach my heart down through the eyes
which have become the halls and doors of tears.
It seems to me it did him little honour
to wound me with his arrow in my state
and to you, armed, not show his bow at all.
The Sonnet
• Italian
• English
Things to know:
• End rhyme
• Quatrain- 4 lines
• Octave- 8 lines
• Sestet- 6 lines
• Couplet 2 rhyming lines
• Volta- a jump or shift in thought or emotion
Italian (end rhyme)
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Italian Sonnet
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B
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• Also. (ABBA ABBA) and (CDC CDC)
English Sonnet
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A
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G
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Meter..is the BEAT!
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Iamb/ Iambic- bah BOM
Trochee/Trochaic-BAH bom
Anapest/Anapestic- bah bah BOM
Dactyl/Dactylic- BOM bah bah
Line length
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Monometer- one foot
Dimeter- 2 feet
Trimeter- 3 feet
Tetrameter-4 feet
Pentameter- 5 feet
• The best-known example of an entire poem in monometer is Robert
Herrick’s “Upon His Departure Hence”:
• Thus I
Passe by,
And die:
As One,
Unknown,
And gon:
I’m made
A shade,
And laid
I’th grave,
There have
My Cave.
Where tell
I dwell,
Farewell
• http://poemshape.wordpress.com/2009/02/
21/roethke-waltzing-iambic-tetrameter/
Tetrameter
• http://poemshape.wordpress.com/2009/01/
03/robet-burns-trochaic-tetrameter-sort-of/
Sonnet
• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course
untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee
Sonnet 130
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the
ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Close
What themes did Shakespeare have in
common with Petrarch (think about the
qualities of Romeo and Juliet and how
love is seen in the play)?
What is different?
HW:
• Page 992 The Chorus
• Page 1016
Video: Act 1 (choose 2 of the 3
questions below)
1. How does Franco Zeffirelli’s vision of “Romeo
and Juliet” compare with the way your picture
the play as you read it? Compare and contrast
his vision to your own. (8-10 sentences)
2. Whenever Shakespeare is adapted to the
cinema, the director and writers must make the
difficult decision as to what must stay and what
must go. Scenes are added, extended and
deleted. Did you notice anything that was
added, extended or cut from Zeffirelli’s version
of “Romeo and Juliet?” How did it influence the
way you see the story? (8-10 sentences).
3. The power of Romeo and Juliet relies on the
actors ability to portray the characters. What
Act 2. continued
• Make additions to your WU list as we go along.
Include important metaphors, actions, symbols,
setting..etc.
• Scene2.• (after reading) what is the setting? Write down a
description of how you picture this scene.
• (after viewing) How did your description
compare to Zefferelli’s?
Quick quiz
• 1.What were Benvolio and Mercutio doing in
ActII sc1?
• 2. Who was Romeo addressing when he says,
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
• 3. Fill in the blank. “But soft! What light through
yonder window breaks? It is the East and Juliet
is the ____!”
• 4.What is meant by “That which we call a rose/
By any other name would smell as sweet?”
Close.
What are Romeo and Juliet’s plans after they depart from each other?
Happy Birthday Mr. DeReza!
HW: review Act 1 and what we have covered in Act 2. Make a list for events for Act
1 as we did today for Act 2
• The house is bigger than a hummer truck.
• Dereza teaches English poster making.
• We’re not consumed by people hating us.