1. Love through the ages Objectives:
To identify the different types of love.
To explore your ideas on love.
To analyse traditional presentations of love in poetry.

2. I’d do anything for love (but I won’t do that!)
List 3 things that you would do for someone that you loved and no one else.
Extension – write a definition of love.
I would...
Be patient, kind and supportive if they had a problem

3. Starter – match up the different types of love
Platonic love
Love that is not openly reciprocated, even though it is deeply desired.
Familial love
In the modern sense means love into which a sexual element does not enter. However, the true meaning is that the love was built on chastity rather than a lack of desire.
Unrequited love
The love that occurs between two people of either the same or opposite sex where people are considered to share a deeper than usual emotional connection.
Romantic love
The love felt for one’s family.

4. Francesco Petrach
In the Petrachan sonnet it was usual to compare women’s features to nature and to liken the mistress to a goddess.
Descriptions were often completely over the top, using hyperbole (exaggeration and overstatement), eg. ‘You are angelically pure.’

5. Sonnets 157 and 130 – use quotes to support your ideas
1. How does Petrach present his ideas of love?
2. How does Shakespeare present his ideas of love?
3. Do you prefer the Petrachan sonnets or Sonnet 130? Why?
4. What do you notice about the structure of the sonnets? How can you tell they are both sonnets?
5. Write your own love poem – if you can do it in the style of a sonnet

6. Love through the ages Objectives:
To identify the different types of love.
To explore your ideas on love.
To analyse traditional presentations of love in poetry.