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METER
A regular pattern
of stressed and
unstressed
syllables.
FOOT
A meter’s basic unit
Consists of one
stressed syllable and
one or more
unstressed syllables.
4 BASIC METRICAL FEET
IAMB
TROCHEE
ANAPEST
DACTYL
IAMB
(˘´ )
Unstressed/stressed
˘
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Re lief
TROCHEE
(´˘ )
stressed/unstressed
´ ˘
ap ple
ANAPEST
(˘˘´)
unstressed/unstressed/str
essed
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in
˘
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tro duce
DACTYL
(´˘˘ )
stressed/unstressed/
unstressed
´ ˘ ˘
Broc co li
SPONDEE
(´´)
Double stress
CAESURA
(ll)
pause
SCANSION
Analysis of poetic
meter
–Identify different
types of feet used in
each line then count
them.2nd
Types of meter
Dimeter = 2 feet per
line
Trimeter= 3 feet per
line
Tetrameter= 4 per line
Pentameter = 5
Hexameter = 6
Few poems are
written with
exact meter
throughout the
entire poem
Perception of meter
also varies with the
reader
The dominant meter
can generally be
recognized
Identify the metrical foot
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I bought a car today.
Look for hidden
pitfalls.
In the cool of the night
Answers:
Dactyl
Iamb
Trochee
Anapest
Edmund Spenser
Regarded himself
as primarily a poet
Lived in war-torn
Ireland
Wrote The Faerie
Queene and Amoretti
Infant son killed in a
raid by Irishmen who
detested the
presence of
Englishmen in Ireland
Buried in
Westminster near
Chaucer in the poets’
corner
Chaucer, Spenser and
Milton are regarded as
England’s greatest
non-dramatic poets.
Paradox
An apparent
contradiction
that is somehow
true.
Conceit
A fanciful and elaborate
figure of speech that
makes a surprising
connection between two
seemingly dissimilar
things.
–Ex. Love of Blaze compared
to a baited hook.
Sonnet 30
What is the
paradox stated?
Poet compares his
love for a woman to
a BLAZING fire
And compares her
rejection of his
love to ice.
What makes it a
paradox?
If he is like fire,
why then can he not
melt her cold heart,
but instead, she gets
colder toward him.
Also, if she is like
ice, why then does
his love for her
grow hotter, not
cooler with her
rejection?
Answer:
Love is so
powerful that it
can alter the laws
of nature.
Couplet
Two consecutive
rhyming lines of
poetry.
–Answer to sonnet 30
comes in the form of a
couplet.
Sonnet 75
Speaker describes
writing his love’s
name in the sand and
seeing the waves
wash it away twice.
When she protests that
it is futile to try to
immortalize anything
mortal, he promises to
make her name and
their love live forever
through his verse
(eternizing conceit).
Conceit
A fanciful and
elaborate figure of
speech that makes a
surprising connection
between two seemingly
dissimilar things.
Eternizing Conceit
A conceit meant to
immortalize
someone/thing in
words such as a
poem.
Petrarchan Sonnet
14 lines of rhymed
iambic pentameter,
organized in two
stanzas
One stanza has 8
lines (octave)
One stanza has 6
lines (sestet)
Octave is in the
rhyming pattern of
abbaabba
Sestet is in the
rhyming pattern of
cdecde
Octave describes a
situation or a
problem
Sestet describes a
change in the
situation or a solution
to the problem
Turn
The change in
the situation is
called the TURN.
English Sonnet
Originated during the
Renaissance.
Two forms of the
English sonnet are the
Shakespearean and the
Spenserian.
Spenserian sonnet
Consists of 3 four
line stanzas
(quatrains) and a
concluding couplet.
Spenserian sonnet
Rhyme scheme is
abab bcbc cdcd ee
In the Faerie Queen
Spenser used the rhyming
scheme ababbcbcc with
the last line having an
extra foot making it a
hexameter- this is also
called an ALEXANDRINE
The Spenserian Stanza
The nine-line iambic
stanza which had only 3
rhymes with the last
line having an extra
foot was now called the
Spenserian Stanza.
Faerie – suggests
grand, heroic
beings whose
superhuman powers
come from their
own virtue and
piety.
Who is the Faerie
Queen?
Gloriana, an
idealized portrait
of Queen Elizabeth
The Faerie Queen as
an Allegory
Meant to be an allegory,
Spenser intended to
create 12 books, with each
leading character serving
as the embodiment of one
virtue or quality.
The Characters
The RedCross
Knight – mankind
Duessa- Falsehood
Una - Truth
Sonnet 18 pg 224
Is a
Shakespearean
sonnet written in
the rhyming format
abab cdcd efef gg
Logical Organization
The first two
quatrains ask a
question and give
tentative answers
The turn comes
after line 8 with a
second turn coming
after line 12
The couplet is the
final answer to the
question.
The second turn is
a final summary
meant to have a
great impact, such
as successfully
immortalizing the
object.
Eternizing Conceit
A conceit meant to
immortalize
someone/thing in
words such as a
poem.
COMPLETE THE
QUICKWRITE
ON PAGE 225
AND TURN IN
FOR A GRADE.
Sonnet 116
Love is defined as a
“marriage of true
minds”
It tells what love is
and what it is not.
Love is…
–Unalterable
–Is an “ever-fixed
mark”
Love is not…
–Not Time’s fool
Synecdoche
A figure of speech in
which a part of something
represents the whole.
–What is the synecdoche in
this poem?
Rosy lips and cheeks –
represent health and youth.
Allusion
What is alluded
to in this poem?
–The grim reaper
with his sickle.
Sonnet 130
With humor, the
speaker describes
his beloved, who he
says is nothing like
The red-lipped,
rosy-cheeked,
sweet-voiced
damsels of typical
love poetry;
instead, she is an
Ordinary mortal.
The speaker makes
it clear though
that it is not his
true love that
disappoints him,
But rather the
gushing love
poetry with
conventional
sentiments about
beauty.
Remember…
Such metaphors
are known as
conceits
Carpe Diem
Means “seize the
day”
Literary theme that
urges living in the
present moment.
Pastoral
From the Latin word
for, “pastor”, and
meaning, “shepherd”
are works set in an
idealized countryside
with characters that
Are often blends
of the naïve and
the sophisticated.
The Passionate
Sheperd to His Love
What makes it a
pastoral?
It shows none of
the hardships of
farm life.
How is the speaker
offering the
suggestion to
“seize the day”?
He is offering
many delights to
tempt his love in
the hope that she
will spontaneously
go with him.
The Nymph’s Reply
to the Sheperd
Nymph means, “young
woman”
How does the nymph’s
view of life differ from
the shepherd's view?
The nymph points
out the flaws in his
vision of life,
focusing on the
negatives such as
age and fall and
winter.
How is the “carpe
diem” theme
satirized by this
poet?
He makes the
shepherd's offers
seem unrealistic,
impossible and
ridiculous.
Metaphysical Conceit
Especially complex and
ingenious figures of
speech that make
surprising connections
between two seemingly
dissimilar things.
Hyperbole
Extreme
exaggeration
Valediction: …
In this poem, a
husband is bidding
his wife farewell. He
forbids her to
mourn his leaving on
a journey.
The first 8 lines
urge her to behave
with quiet dignity
when they part, just
like virtuous people
die without drama or
display.
Metaphysical
imagery is used to
describe their
relationship as a
union of souls so
complete that
distance cannot
separate them.
What is the conceit?
Lines 25-28
The two people
compared to the
legs of a compass.
While one is fixed
and unmoving, the
other circles
around, but always
in relation to the
fixed person.
Death be Not Proud
The speaker taunts
Death, saying Death
does not kill and that
Death itself will die–
because Death is the
soul’s deliverance
into eternal life.
Death is also the slave
of “fate, chance,
kings, and desperate
men.” Death can only
inflict temporary
“sleep” because the
soul will awaken, live
eternally, and defeat
Death.
Epigram
A brief, clever
and usually
memorable
statement.
On My First Son
A farewell to his dead
son, the speaker
regrets having
forgotten that his
child was merely
loaned to him by God.
He consoles
himself with the
thought that his
son is now free of
the pains of living
and growing old.
The last lines offer an
epitaph for his son, “his
best piece of poetry”.
He concludes with a
vow never again to “like”
or cling “too much” to
what he loves.
To Althea, from Prison
Speaker talks of the
nature of
confinement versus
liberty and asserts
that, although he’s in
jail, presumably for
political reasons, he is
spiritually and
imaginatively free. He
sums up his situation in
the famous paradox at
the beginning of the
last stanza.
The refrain ending
each stanza also
emphasizes the
triumph of freedom
of the mind over
physical confinement.
Royalists
Men who
supported King
Charles in the Civil
Wars of the 1640s.
Cavalier
Nickname for a
supporter of the
king
Roundhead
Nickname for a
supporter of
Parliament