Unit Eight
Sonnet
Sonnet ● 十四行诗，商籁体 ● A fixed form consisting of fourteen lines of 5-foot
iambic verse.
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In the English or Shakespearean sonnet, the lines are grouped in three quatrains (with six alternating rhymes ) followed by a detached rhymed couplet . In the original Italian form, the fourteen lines are divided into an octave 八行诗节and a sestet六行诗 节.This form tends to divide the thought into two opposing or complementary phrases of the same idea.

Review Questions

The poem begins with a question. Does it give a satisfying answer? List the reasons why Brownlee should have been content. Do you find this a reasonable list?
(1806~1861)
Her
Experiences
Sonnets from the Portuguese 《葡语十四行诗集》 "Portuguese" was a pet name Browning used. Sonnets from the Portuguese also refers to the series of sonnets of the 16th-century Portuguese poet Luí de Camões; in all these s poems she used rhyme schemes typical of the Portuguese sonnets.
上邪 上邪!我欲与君相知，长命无绝衰！ 山无陵，江山为竭， 冬雨震震，夏雨雪， 天地合；乃敢与君绝！ ------汉乐府
Why Brownlee Left
By Paul Muldoon(b.1951)
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon (born 20 June 1951 near Portadown, Northern Ireland) is an Irish poet. He has published over thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He held the post of Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1999 - 2004. At Princeton University he is both the Howard G. B. Clark 21 Professor in the Humanities and chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts.He is also the president of the Poetry Society (U.K.)and Poetry Editor at The New Yorker.
HOW DO I LOVE THEE?
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING(1806~1861)
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861) one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime.A collection of her last poems was published by her husband, Robert Browning, shortly after her death.


In which lines can we find possible solution to the mystery of Brownlee’s disappearance?
Review Questions
1、Use several adjectives to describe the love expressed in this sonnet. 2、The following poem was a popular song of china’s hang dynasty. Compare it with this sonnet. How do they match in intensity?

By noon Brownlee was famous; They had found all abandoned, with The last rig unbroken, his pair of black Horses, like man and wife, Shifting their weight form foot to Foot, and gazing into the future.
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday‘s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. (a) (b) (b) (a)

About why Brownlee left
Meter & Rhythm: Stanza: two----- octave, sestet Rhyme: off-rhyme (p224) Speaker: narrator Tone: confusing, depressing Image: horses Figurative language : pun, simile
His poetry is known for his difficult, sly, allusive style, casual use of obscure or archaic words, understated wit, punning, and deft technique in meter and slant rhyme. Muldoon is more of the poet's poet, whose work is frequently too involved and opaque for a more casual readership. However, Muldoon's reputation as a serious poet was confirmed in 2003 with his winning of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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One of the best-known sonnet writers is William Shakespeare, who wrote 154 of them (not including those that appear in his plays). A Shakespearean, or English, sonnet consists of 14 lines, each line containing ten syllables and written in iambic pentameter, in which a pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is repeated five times. The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is a-b-a-b, c-d-cd, e-f-e-f, g-g; the last two lines are a rhyming couplet.
(c) (d) (c) (d) (c) (d)
About How Do I Love Thee?
Meter& Rhythm : iambic pentameter
Stanza : two------- octave, sestet Rhyme: end rhyme ；internal rhyme Speaker: the poet herself Toneபைடு நூலகம்: amorous/passionate Image : smile; tear Figurative language: repetition/hyperbole
How Do I Love Thee？
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
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I love thee with a passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.