1. Introduction to Sonnet Poetry Alexia Wilson

2. Introduction to Sonnet Poetry Agenda A brief History Types & famous examples formula So what?

3. Sonnet poetry: what is it? 14 lines usually 3 quatrains & 1 couplet Quatrain= 4 line stanza, couplet = 2 line stanza

4. Sonnet poetry: what is it? In iambic pentameter duh -DUH- duh -DUH- duh -DUH- duh -DUH- duh -DUH 10 syllables, 5 feet each foot: unstressed -stressed E.g., Shall I com pare thee to a sum mer’s day?

5. Sonnet poetry: what is it? Standard end-rhyme scheme I.e., abab cdcd efef gg

6. Sonnet poetry: famous sonnet poets & types Shakespearean sonnets tend to be argumentative Follows ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme

7. Sonnet poetry: famous sonnet poets & types Shakespearean sonnets tend to be argumentative Quatrain 1: introduces theme or main metaphor

8. Sonnet poetry: famous sonnet poets & types Shakespearean sonnets tend to be argumentative Quatrain 2: extends on main theme or metaphor, example is given

9. Sonnet poetry: famous sonnet poets & types Shakespearean sonnets tend to be argumentative Quatrain 3: Peripatiea (turn, twist or conflict) Twist almost always signaled by the word ‘but’ on 9 th line

10. Sonnet poetry: famous sonnet poets & types Shakespearean sonnets tend to be argumentative Couplet: summary with new point of view on the theme or main point about love or life

11. Quick check!

12. Sonnet poetry: example of shakespearean sonnet 116 Let’s look to see the 4 parts in action. But first, let’s listen it.

13. Shakespearean sonnet: Let’s see its parts! Quatrain 1: theme or metaphor introduced Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: What’s his argument?

14. Shakespearean sonnet: Let’s see its parts! Quatrain 2: theme or metaphor extended w/ example O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests, and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. What’s his example/extension?

15. Shakespearean sonnet: Let’s see its parts! Quatrain 3: Peripateia- twist w/ “but” Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. What’s his twist/but?

16. Shakespearean sonnet: Let’s see its parts! couplet: conclusion If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. What’s his final point?

17. Other types of sonnets: italian or petrarchan 2 parts - octet (8) and a sextet (6) -rhyme scheme= abbaabba (8) then usually cdcdcd (6) -line 9 is the ‘turn’ -rhyme scheme change signals the peripeteia or ‘volta’ -still 14 lines -love poetry

18. Other types of sonnets: italian or petrarchan example 2 parts - octet (8) and a sextet (6) -rhyme scheme= abbaabba (8) then usually cdcdcd (6) -line 9 is the ‘turn’ -rhyme scheme change signals the peripeteia -still 14 lines -love poetry Turn/volta!

19. Other types of sonnets: spenserian 2 parts - 12 line main group then a couplet rhyme scheme overlaps= a b a b b c b c c d c d + e e -Turn at the couplet -still 14 lines

20. Other types of sonnets: spenserian

21. Other types of sonnets: indefinables No obvious pattern Rhyme scheme, turns in common- parts varied They may have them, they just don’t follow a ‘type’ More “modern” Not necessarily about love Percy Bysshe Shelley

22. Other types of sonnets: indefinables: Percy Shelly’s ‘ozymandias’

23. So what? Our lyric project will be of the last type, the indefinable sonnet To do that, we should be able to know the parts and what distinguishes the types from one another We must know the rules before we can break them…or….

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25. Sonnet analysis: pick a poem, get into groups of like poems steps Rhyme scheme? Turn? (volta or peripeteia) What type is it? See if you can find the “chunks” from the rhyme scheme or ‘buts’ What is the theme/message/argume nt?