Download Narrative of the Sonnets

Rap with Shakspeare
• Take notes on
Shakespeare’s
sonnets.
• As we take notes, we
will also annotate
Shakespeare’s most
famous sonnet,
Sonnet 18.
Shakespeare’s Sonnets
• Shakespeare's Sonnets
• The Sonnets are
Shakespeare's most popular
works
• They are the most widely-read
poems in all of English
literature.
• There are 154 in total.
• The 3 most significant are:
– Sonnet 18: Shall I compare
thee to a summer's day
– Sonnet 116: Let me not to the
marriage of true minds
– Sonnet 73: That time of year
thou mayst in me behold
Background Information
• Background
Information
• Shakespeare’s
sonnets were
dedicated to a W. H.,
whose identity
remains a mystery
• Theorists believe it
may have been
William Herbert, the
Earl of Pembroke
Narrative of the Sonnets
• Narrative of the
Sonnets
• The majority of the
sonnets 1-126 focus
on an intense
romantic relationship
and some of the
following themes:
– The value of marriage
and children
– The power of poetry
and language
– The power of love to
defeat death
Sonnet 18
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 owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
Narrative of the Sonnets,
Continued
• The final sonnets (127154) change tone and
focus on a promiscuous
woman known to modern
readers as the dark lady.
• The themes shift to the
following:
– Sensual Feasting
– Uncontrollable Urges
– Sinful Consumption
Elements
• Elements of a
Shakespearean
Sonnet
• The Parts:
– Fourteen-Line Poem
– Written in Iambic
Pentameter
Defining Iambic Pentameter
• Defining Iambic
Pentameter:
• Iambic Pentameter
has the following:
– Ten syllables in each
line
– Five pairs of
alternating unstressed
and stressed syllables
– The rhythm in each
line sounds like:
ba-BUM / ba-BUM /
ba-BUM / ba-BUM /
ba-BUM
1.
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
2.
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
3. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
4. And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
5.
6.
7.
8.
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;
9. But thy eternal summer shall not fade
10.Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
11.Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
12.When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
13. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
14. So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
Elements, Continued
• Elements of a
Shakespearean
Sonnet
• The Parts:
– Fourteen-Line Poem
– Written in Iambic
Pentameter
– Divided into Four
Sections:
• Three quatrains
(groups of four
lines)
• Followed by a
couplet of two lines.
1.
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
2.
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Quatrain
3. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
4. And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
5.
6.
7.
8.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
Quatrain
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
9. But thy eternal summer shall not fade
10.Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Quatrain
11.Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
12.When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
13. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
14. So long lives this and this gives life to thee. COUPLET
Rhyme Scheme
• Defining Rhyme Scheme
The following short poem illustrates the labeling of a
rhyme scheme.
There once was a big brown cat
a
That liked to eat a lot of mice.
b
He got all round and fat
a
Because they tasted so nice.
b
For example, the first rhyme sound of a poem is
designated as a. Every time that rhyme sound
appears in the poem, no matter where it is found, it
is called a. The second rhyme sound to appear in
the poem is designated b. Every other time that
rhyme sound appears in the poem, no matter where
it is found, it is called b. The third rhyme sound to
appear would be c, the fourth d, and so on, for as
many rhyme sounds as appear in the poem.
•
A regular pattern of rhyme, one
that is consistent throughout the
extent of the poem.
•
Rhyme schemes are labeled
according to their rhyme
sounds.
•
Every rhyme sound is given its
own letter of the alphabet to
distinguish it from the other
rhyme sounds that may appear
in the poem.
1.
Sonnet 18
Shall sound
I compare
thee its
to a summer's day? A
Every rhyme
is given
2.
Thou
more
lovely and
own letter
ofart
the
alphabet
to more temperate: B Quatrain
3. Rough
distinguish
it from
the
winds
doother
shake the darling buds of May, A
rhyme4.sounds
that may
appear
And summer's
lease
hath all too short a date: B
in the poem.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
Quatrain
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
9. But thy eternal summer shall not fade
10.Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Quatrain
11.Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
12.When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
13. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
14. So long lives this and this gives life to thee. COUPLET
1.
Sonnet 18
Shall sound
I compare
thee its
to a summer's day? A
Every rhyme
is given
2.
Thou
more
lovely and
own letter
ofart
the
alphabet
to more temperate: B Quatrain
3. Rough
distinguish
it from
the
winds
doother
shake the darling buds of May, A
rhyme4.sounds
that may
appear
And summer's
lease
hath all too short a date: B
in the poem.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
Quatrain
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
9. But thy eternal summer shall not fade
10.Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Quatrain
11.Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
12.When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
13. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
14. So long lives this and this gives life to thee. COUPLET
Shakespeare vs. Paraphrase!
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:
Can I compare you to a summer’s day?
You are more lovely and don’t change like summer:
Rough Winds knock off the pretty flowers of May
And summer doesn’t last long:
Rap with Shakspeare
• Take notes on
Shakespeare’s sonnets.
• As we take notes, we will
also annotate
Shakespeare’s most
famous sonnet, Sonnet
18.
• Now try to see if you
can put Shakespeare’s
word into your own
1.
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
2.
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
3. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
4. And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
5.
6.
7.
8.
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;
9. But thy eternal summer shall not fade
10.Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
11.Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
12.When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
13. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
14. So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
Rapper’s Delight:
A Sonnet
ON YOUR OWN!
Directions
Complete the following for a Shakespearean
sonnet:
- Paraphrase your given Sonnet…
- Then, create your own rap version of that
sonnet:
– Alternating Rhyme Scheme (except for the
ending couplet)
– 3 Quatrains and a couplet
– 10 syllables per line (ouch!)