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Oh no…my mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun! What, then, can I possibly write? THE SONNET FORM The Literary Renaissance The Sonnet: Requirements ◻ ◻ ◻ ◻ 14 lines Subject: focus on personal thoughts and feelings Variable rhyme scheme Meter varies, but for Shakespeare: Iambic Pentameter (5 units of meter, unstressed followed by stressed syllable) My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun Petrarchan Sonnet (Italian) ◻ ◻ ◻ ◻ ◻ ◻ ◻ Italian poet (1304-1374) Father of sonnet form Expression of emotion and love Wrote over 300 to a beautiful woman he could not have (Laura) 2-part structure: Octave (8 lines, abbaabba), followed by a Sestet, (last 6 lines, cdcdcd or cdecde) Octave – presents situation/problem Sestet – Resolves/draws conclusions about situation This is Francesco Petrarch. If I were Laura, I would also ignore him. English/Shakespearean Sonnet ◻ ◻ ◻ Sir Thomas Wyatt (1530s) and Henry Howard first altered the Petrarchan form’s rhyme scheme to make the English sonnet 1600s – Sonnets are most popular poem forms in English Shakespeare’s sonnet (published 154) ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ To the fair youth (young man), #s1-126 To the Dark Lady, #s 127-152 To his rival poet, #s 78-86 Love and philosophical issues His objects of affection were never perfect – celebrated humanity at its most real level English/Shakespearean Sonnet ◻ Themes: ⬜ ◻ Time, death, beauty, change Form: Three Quatrains (groups of four lines), followed by a rhyming couplet (two lines that have end rhyme) ⬜ Each quatrain focuses on a particular image, building the story ⬜ Rhyming couplet brings the ideas together/provides the final comment. ⬜ The Fair Youth v. The Dark Lady Shakespeare’s 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. A B A B C D C D E F E F G G Spenserian Sonnet (English) ◻ ◻ ◻ ◻ ◻ Edmund Spenser Sonnet Sequence “Amoretti”, or “little intimate tokens of love” (1595) Progression models that of a traditional courtship Partly autobiographical; thought to be written during his courtship with his second wife. Difference from Shakespearean Sonnet: Rhyme scheme of quatrains – interlocking rhyme scheme (abab/bcbc/cdcd/ee) Edmund Spenser and Elizabeth Boyle Marry me!! I guess...we do have the same weird collar... Words to Know ◻ ◻ ◻ ◻ ◻ ◻ ◻ Couplet – group of two lines Quatrain – group of four lines Octave – group of eight lines Sestet – group of six lines Volta - turn or dramatic shift in the poem Lyrical poem – expresses personal emotions or feelings, usually in first person, musical quality Sonnet – 14-line lyric poem with complicated rhyme scheme (based on its origin)