1. English 3 Ms. Batchelor January 9, 2018
Please take out Norton Anthology B, your notes, and something to write with.

2. Objectives
Students will be able to interpret the literal and figurative meanings of poems by Thomas Wyatt and Edmund Spenser.
Students will be able to relate background knowledge to Wyatt & Spencer and their poems to analyze the significance of his work.
Students will be able to define and identify sonnet, iambic pentameter, sestet/sestet scheme, stanza, and refrain.

3. Petrarchan Sonnet 14 lines—first part = octave, second part = sestet
Octave pattern abbaabba
Sestet pattern cdecde or cdcdcd
Purpose of octave—to introduce a problem, express desire, present a situation
Purpose of the sestet—make a comment on the problem and apply a solution to it
Beginning of the sestet is called the volta—pronounced change in tone
How many lines in the octave? Sestet?

4. Sir Thomas Wyatt 1503-1542 Master of the game of poetic self-display
Betrayal/bitterness
Introduced sonnet with iambic pentameter and complex, intertwining rhyme scheme
Petrarchan octave—sestet scheme of cddc ee
For the lover in Wyatt’s poems, love is transient and embittering
Blend of passion, cynicism, anger, longing
Wyatt never published a collection of his own poems during his lifetime

5. Iambic Pentameter
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. (William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)

6. The long love that in my thought doth harbor by Wyatt
Page 648
Paraphrase the poem
What type of poem is this?
What is the problem presented? Where?
Do you think it has symbolic meaning? If so, what does Wyatt mean?
What is the resolution? Does the resolution have a symbolic meaning?
What is the tone of the poem?
What is the rhyme scheme of the octave and the sestet?

7. Edmund Spenser ( )
Uncharacteristic of English authors (up to this point)
Born to a middle-class family, and worked his way through the “sizar” class of education at Cambridge—scholar with limited means, does chores for room/board
One of the first poets to deliberately plan his career: no aspiration to politics or the Church, unlike previous English poets
Puritan Protestant
Worked his way through school by translating anti-Catholic propaganda
Worked as an aide to many powerful men, who connect him to wealthy and prominent poets like Sidney and Dyer
Served as secretary to Lord Grey, the lord deputy of Ireland; participation in suppressing Irish nationalism earned him 3,028 acres and an estate
Interested in ”the reformation of the English verse,” wanted to place it on-par with Greek literature
“The Poet’s Poet”: the most innovative poet of the Renaissance, and perhaps all of English history: adapted the Italian canzone, wrote a poem with thirteen meters, invented the Spenserian sonnet and the Spenserian stanza
Influenced Shakespeare, Shelley, Byron, Keats, and Tennyson, among others

8. Edmund Spenser ( )
Spenserian Sonnet- 3 quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter, rhyme scheme= abab bcbc
Quatrain-stanza with 4 lines
Couplet-2 lines of verse usually in the same meter, joined by rhyme
Spenserian Stanza-8 iambic pentameters and an alexandrine, rhyme scheme ababbcbcc
Alexandrine a line of verse having six iambic feet

9. Example of Spenserian Stanza
A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruell markes of many a bloody fielde; Yet armes till that time did he never wield: His angry steede did chide his foaming bitt, As much disdayning to the curbe to yield: Full jolly knight he seemed, and faire did sitt, As one for knightly jousts and fierce encounters fitt.

10. English 3 Ms. Batchelor January 10, 2017
Please take out your Norton anthology volume b, your notes, something to write with, and your vocabulary Homework!

11. Rhyme Scheme Comparison
Warm up: Answer the following question in your notebook. What does this chart tell us about sonnet writing?

12. Objectives
Students will be able to analyze and deconstruct a poem by Spenser
Students will be able to identify rhyme scheme, octave, volta, and sestet.

13. Compare Wyatt and Petrarch’s Sonnets
Wyatt The long Love that in my thought doth harbor
Petrarch –Rima 140 (translated from Italian)
The long love that in my thought doth harbor, And in mine heart doth keep his residence, Into my face presseth with bold pretense And therein campeth, spreading his banner. She that me learneth to love and suffer And will that my trust and lust's negligence Be reined by reason, shame, and reverence, With his hardiness taketh displeasure. Wherewithal unto the heart's forest he fleeth, Leaving his enterprise with pain and cry, And there him hideth, and not appeareth.  What may I do, when my master feareth,  But in the field with him to live and die?  For good is the life ending faithfully.
 Love, who lives and rules in my thought and holds his chief seat in my heart, sometimes armed comes into my face; and there makes camp and places his banner. She who teaches me to love and suffer, and wants reason, shame, and respect restrain my great desire and burning hope takes offense inwardly at our ardor. Therefore Love, fearful, flees to the heart, abandoning it all, and cries and shakes; he hides himself, and is seen abroad no more. What can I do, when my master is afraid, except stand with him to the bitter end? He makes a fine end, who dies loving well!

14. Edmund Spenser ( )
Spenserian Sonnet- 3 quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter, rhyme scheme= abab bcbc
Quatrain-stanza with 4 lines
Couplet-2 lines of verse usually in the same meter, joined by rhyme
Spenserian Stanza-8 iambic pentameters and an alexandrine, rhyme scheme ababbcbcc
Alexandrine a line of verse having six iambic feet

15. Spenser—Sonnet 34 P. 986 Identify/label rhyme scheme
Draw brackets around the quatrains
Circle the couplet
Paraphrase—what is this poem about?
Imagery?
Mood?
Other elements of figurative language and poetic devices?

16. English 3 Ms. Batchelor January 11, 2017
Please take out your Norton anthology volume b, your notes, something to write with!

17. Shakespearian Sonnet fourteen lines three quatrains
the poet establishes a theme or problem and then resolves it in the final two lines, called the couplet
The rhyme scheme of the quatrains is abab cdcd efef
The couplet has the rhyme scheme gg

18. Feature of Shakespearian Sonnet Enjambment
Enjambment lines usually do not have a punctuation mark at the end
Poets can achieve a fast pace or rhythm by using enjambment
Multiple ideas can be expressed without using semi-colons, periods, or commas.
It can be seen in different songs and poems
Why would poets use enjambment? What’s the function of an enjambment in poetry?

19. …What’s the point?
It helps readers to continue thinking about the idea, which is expressed in one line, and which continues through to the next
Used to surprise readers by delaying the meaning of a line until the following line is read
Bring humorous effects
Create a sense of natural motion
In poetry, the role of enjambment is normally to let an idea carry on beyond the restrictions of a single line

20. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_31_UDs7Iac

21. Sonnet 18 --William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616 p. 1172
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 dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest 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.

22. Sonnet 18 Paraphrase the poem What is the problem presented? Where?
Do you think it has symbolic meaning?
What is the resolution? Does the resolution have a symbolic meaning?
What is the tone of the poem?
What is the rhyme scheme of the octave and the sestet?

23. Introduce Assignment for Next Week
You have class Wednesday and Friday next week
Wednesday vocab quiz—turn in packet from Monday on Wednesday!
Friday supervised work time
Tuesday and Thursday are free periods to work on the project
Materials are linked on the website

24. Poetic Techniques/Devices List Words you should be able to use in your project!
Rhyme/rhyme scheme
Enjambment
Iambic pentameter
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Symbolism
Quatrain
Couplet
Octave
Volta
Sestet
Tone
Mood
The copy of the sonnet you include with your step 1: sonnet analysis should be marked up.
Label rhyme scheme, quatrains, couplet.