Sonnet 18
A B A B C D C D
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 too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? A QUESTION Thou art more lovely and more temperate. B syntax Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A imagery And summer’s lease hath too short a date. B- near rhyme Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, C syntax And often is his gold complexion dimmed; D personification-sun And every fair from fair sometimes declines, C By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed. D But thy eternal summer shall not fade,E VOLTA- shift in tone METAPHOR Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest, F Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade E person. - death When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. F So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, G ANAPHORA So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. G
find support that it is platonic, or father-son love
The Dark Lady (sonnets 127-152)
Given this name because of she is described as being
dark haired The sonnets written about her express infatuation and are more sexual in nature
Sonnet 18
E F E F G G
But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest, Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st 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. Sonnet 18
˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ / Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Shakespearean Sonnet Form
Rhyme Scheme: Quatrain 1: a b a b [introduces question] Quatrain 2: c d c d [tentative Quatrain 3: e f e f answers] Rhyming Couplet: g g [final answer] Volta: The turn or transition in line 9 which marks a shift in focus or thought
Explicating Poetry: 5 Steps
1- Examine the situation in the poem
2- Examine the structure in the poem 3- Examine the language in the poem
4- Examine the musical devices in the poem
Shakespearean Sonnets
1609 Quarto only source of most 152
Shakespearean Sonnets.
There are 3 categories of poems in this
Quarto: 1-126 are addressed to The Fair Youth 127-152 are addressed to The Dark Mistress A Lover’s Complaint a 329 line poem written in Rhyme Royal (a-b-a-b-b-c-c)
Shakespearean Sonnet Form
Still 14 lines
Broken into 4 parts
3 quatrains- 4 line stanza
1 rhyming couplet- 2 line stanza
Written in iambic pentameter:
5- Write about your conclusions!
William Shakespeare
c. 1564-1616
b. Stratford-uponAvon, England
Wrote during
Renaissance time period Time of metaphysical and carpe diem poetry
Shakespeare’s Addressees
The Fair YouБайду номын сангаасh (sonnets 1-126)
An unnamed young man Written to in loving and romantic language Some suggest this may be a homosexual love, others