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1 Shakespeare’s Sonnets

2 It is a fourteen-line poem which may be variously rhymed It was introduced in England by a group of Court poets during the reign of Henry VIII Petrarch was considered a model by sonnet writers Love sonnets were collected in sonnet sequences Astrophil and Stella (1591) started the vogue The Sonnet

3 Surrey translated many Petrarchan sonnets His great innovation was to change the structure of the Italian sonnet Italian sonnetEnglish sonnet 1st quatrain abba 1st quatrain abab 2nd quatrain abba 2nd quatrain cdcd 1st tercet cdc 3rd quatrain efef 2nd tercet cdc couplet gg The English sonnet is composed by three quatrains and a final couplet Petrarch vs Surrey

4 They were published in 1609 They are 154 in total Most of the sonnets were written between 1593 and 1599 Possibly they were written to the Earl of Southampton Each sonnet is composed by three quatrains and a final couplet The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg Shakespeare’s Sonnets

5 Their identity is uncertain Fair youth: his role in the sequence is fundamental Dark lady: a flesh-and-blood woman Rival poet: a disturbing factor in the poet’s affection for the fair youth The Characters

6 Love A variety of feelings Old motifs come to new life The marriage sequence It is seen as both spiritual and physical 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. (Sonnet 116) The Themes (1)

7 Time It is the arch-enemy of all mankind It destroys all the beauty and goodness in the world The poet suggests two ways of opposing Time: procreation and poetry 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 (Sonnet 18) The Themes (2)

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