Learning Target Continue to increase our familiarity and comfort in comprehending (and using!) archaic language. Understand what iambic pentameter is and why it is used in poetry and plays.

Shakespeare Lyrics

Shakespeare Lyrics (continued)

Sonnet 2 By William Shakespeare 1.Identify the language that makes the poem difficult to understand (i.e., what is the archaic language?). 2.Use your “cheat sheet” to translate archaic terms and make the poem easier to understand. But also challenge yourself! Try not to reference the sheet every time you come to a word that is “outdated”!

Sonnet 2 When forty winters shall besiege thy brow And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field, Thy youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tattered weed, of small worth held. Then being asked where all thy beauty lies— Where all the treasure of thy lusty days— To say within thine own deep-sunken eyes Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise. How much more praise deserved thy beauty’s use If thou couldst answer "This fair child of mine Shall sum my count and make my old excuse", Proving his beauty by succession thine. This were to be new made when thou art old, And see thy blood warm when thou feel’st it cold.

Vocab Check Put your archaic language worksheets away and pull out a half sheet of paper Number 1-5

Vocab Check 1.Art thou finished with thy chores? 2.Adieu! Perchance we will see each other on the morrow? 3.Aye, my cruel uncle hast been a knave ere I was even born. 4.I pray you, thou shalt give me a few more French fries to go with my burger of ham! 5.Henceforth, thou art versed in the tongue of Elizabethan English!

Poetry Foundation If you’re having trouble with understanding archaic language, Shakespeare’s sonnets are good practice.

Iambic Pentameter

Iambic Pentameter (Meter/Rhythm) It’s all about the stresses (emphasis) and syllables! Stresses: da/DAH (unstressed/STRESSED) Iambic: type of metrical foot in poetry; the pattern An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Two syllables in total. Pentameter: Penta = 5 feet, 5 x 2 = 10, 10 syllables per line!

Iambic Pentameter (continued) “I do not like green eggs and ham / I do not like them Sam-I-Am” Iambic Tetrameter (Four feet) Why Shakespeare Loved Iambic Pentameter

Sonnet 18 By William Shakespeare 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.

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Sonnet 2 (lines 1 and 2) When forty winters shall besiege thy brow And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,

Notating Iambic Pentameter 1.Go back to your copy of Sonnet 2 2.Divide the poem into feet. In the case of iambic pentameter, a foot is TWO syllables 3.Mark the unstressed and stressed syllables

Sonnet 2 When forty winters shall besiege thy brow And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field, Thy youth’s proud livery, so gazed on now, Will be a tattered weed, of small worth held. Then being asked where all thy beauty lies— Where all the treasure of thy lusty days— To say within thine own deep-sunken eyes Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise. How much more praise deserved thy beauty’s use If thou couldst answer "This fair child of mine Shall sum my count and make my old excuse", Proving his beauty by succession thine. This were to be new made when thou art old, And see thy blood warm when thou feel’st it cold.

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Create Your Own Pop Sonnet! Begin work on your own Pop Sonnet Pick a song that you like and/or know really well. It is a good idea to pick a song that doesn’t just have the same words over and over again (for example, “I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again” would not be ideal). Try to use iambic pentameter!

Homework: Due Tuesday, 4/14 Finish writing your Pop Sonnet. Requirements: Include the name of the song and the name of the artist whose song you are altering. School Appropriate! Sonnet Form 14 Lines Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG Archaic Language Optional: Iambic Pentameter