1. Explanations and Assignments
Renaissance Poetry
Explanations and Assignments

2. TP-FASTT TITLE prediction: PARAPHRASE each stanza.
Annotate the poem’s FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE.
ATTITUDE (tone) supported by the diction, figurative language, and imagery found in the poem.
Annotate the poem’s SHIFT(S) (change in tone, imagery, diction, etc.) and consider why the poet may have constructed the poem to include this shift. What does the shift do for or add to the meaning of the poem as a whole?
TITLE – readdress meaning:
THEME:

3. Carpe Diem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
This kind of poetry values living in the moment, appreciating everyday possibilities, and leading a full, rich life while one is able.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying : And this same flower that smiles today To-morrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he's a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer ; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may go marry : For having lost but once your prime You may for ever tarry.

4. Seize the Day
Literally means, “pluck the day” as in “plucking” or pulling flowers.
Get it? Gather moments in life like you would gather flowers?
But remember, these moments don’t last long; flowers cut off from the roots die soon…
A carpe diem poem is a poem intended to persuade a young woman to become a lover by convincing her that time (and most usually her beauty) is fleeting (quickly disappearing).
Attributed to the ancient Roman poet Horace, 65 B.C.E. who composed a book of poems entitled “Odes”
The main goal of the Renaissance Carpe Diem poem - To woo, convince, or persuade

5. Your Assignment: Complete a TPFASTT for the poem
Create your own Carpe Diem poster:
Choose a quote reflecting what Carpe Diem means to you.
Design a mini-poster illustrating how the quote relates to you.
Your poster must include your quote and either pictures or illustrations.
On the back, write a paragraph explaining your choice.

6. Mrs. Bray’s Carpe Diem Quote:
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well- preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand - chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO-HOO, what a ride!!"
~ Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
(translated by C. Bray)

7. Pastoral Poetry Assignment: Textbook (p 257-259)
Speakers are often portrayed as shepherds.
Common topics include: love and seduction, the value of poetry, death and mourning, and the corruption of the city or court vs. the “purity” of idealized country life.
Textbook
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Read both poems in text book
Complete a TPFASTT for each poem

8. Answer the following: (Use textbook – p257-259)
What view of love does the first poem convey? What contrasting view does the second poem convey?
What does the second line of Raleigh’s poem imply about Marlowe’s shepherd? What evidence do you find in the shepherd’s words to support your opinion?
What contrasting ways of looking at the world do the two poems represent? What is your own opinion of each of these attitudes?

9. Spenserian Sonnet Popularized by Edmund Spenser.
Spenserian sonnets are divided into three sets of four lines (called a “quatrain”) and a set of two lines (called a “couplet”).
The rhyme scheme is always ABAB BCBC CDCD EE.

10. The Shakespearian Sonnet
Popularized by the Bard himself, William Shakespeare.
Like the Spenserian sonnet, the Shakespearian sonnet is divided into three quatrains, followed by a couplet.
The rhyme scheme is always ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
* Text page ; complete
“Read Critically” p
*Text page 253; complete
“Read Critically” on p255

11. Poetry Portfolio – What you have to have!
I. Personal Responses and Analyses for:
Carpe Diem Poem: “To The Virgins, to Make Much of Time”
Pastoral Poems: “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
Sonnets: “Sonnet 30” by Spenser and “Sonnet 130” by Shakespeare
II. Poems, Analyses, and Personal Responses:
* One Pastoral
* One Carpe Diem
* One Shakespearean Sonnet
* One Spenserian Sonnet
DUE – February 22