PPT-The Sonnet and Its Forms

Shall I compare thee to a summers day Thou art more lovely and more temperate Rough winds d o shake the d arling buds o f May And summers l ease hath all t oo short a date. XCVII. William Shakespeare, . Sonnets . (1609). Do it yourself p.69. . Sonnet XCVII. William Shakespeare, Sonnets (1609). How . like. a. winter. . hath. . my. . absence. . been. . From. . thee. Sonnet is a 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter.. Employs one of several rhyme schemes. Adheres to a tightly structured thematic organization. The poet introduces at least one . volta. (or a jump or shift in direction of the emotions or thought), usually somewhat after the middle of the Sonnet.. Contributions by Glenn Everett, University of Tennessee at Martin, and Vince Gotera, University of Northern Iowa. The Sonnet. A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter with a carefully patterned rhyme scheme. Other strict, short poetic forms occur in English poetry (the sestina, the villanelle, and the haiku, for example), but none has been used so successfully by so many different poets. . “Shall I compare thee to a . Summer’s Day?”. (1609). William Shakespeare . Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? . Thou art more lovely and more temperate. . Edmund Spenser. Edmund Spenser. 1552 - 1599. A Cambridge graduate (with an M.A.), Spenser lived under Elizabeth I’s rule. He wrote . The Faerie . Queene. . in her honor, but it failed to garnish political favor as Spenser held unpopular political views. This remains his most famous work, however. . Michael Drayton. S. Cooperman, 2014. Michael Drayton. 1563-1631. Drayton is considered an important minor poet of the 17. th. century, second only to . Sidney, . Spenser, and Jonson.. As a writer of many historical poems, popular interest in him waned.. Elizabeth Barrett Browning. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height . My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight . For the ends of being and ideal grace. . Is a lyric poem of single stanza consisting fourteen iambic pentameter lines.. English sonnets are of two types:. - Italian or Petrarch an sonnet:-. it’s name after the 14. A short history of the sonnet. The term “sonnet” derives from the Italian “. sonetto. ”, a “. little sound or song. ”.. The first examples are those written by . Iacopo. . da. . Lentini. Understanding the forms, meter, rhyme, and other aspects of the sonnet. .. Sonnet Form. A sonnet has 14 lines.. A sonnet must be written in iambic pentameter. A sonnet must follow a specific rhyme scheme, depending on the type of sonnet.. EDMUND SPENSER. BIOGRAPHY. Edmund Spenser was one of the greatest poets of Elizabethan England, as evidenced by his masterwork, . The Faerie Queene.. Edmund Spenser published his first important work, The . “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds”. (1609). William Shakespeare . Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds. Let me not to the marriage of true minds . Admit impediments. Love is not love . “When I DO Count the Clock. That Tells the Time”. (1609). William Shakespeare . When I Do Count the Clock. That tells the Time. When I do count the clock that tells the time, A. 2. And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; B. Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (1784) Sonnet Revival Assumptions about the demise of the sonnet after Milton are based mainly on the fact that major authors such as Pope, Dryden and Johnson used the sonnet only sparingly, Pope published sonnets ‘in imitation of Waller’, aged thirteen.