1. Examine the difference between the rhyme scheme Spencer uses and the one Shakespeare uses. Explain the difference. Which one do you prefer?
William Shakespeare's poem was way easier for me to understand. Shakespeare in his poem was as if he was in love and describe his lover in words. When I read Edmund Spencer poem it was me really confusing .But when i read it the 3rd time i under stood the poem. What i think he is trying to say is that he loves or likes this girl and the more he shows his love for her the more she backs off.
2. The rhyme scheme divides sonnets into four sections. The first section is a question asked from one point of view, the second is the same question asked from another point of view. The third section is called the turn. The turn is a shift in focus or the thoughts of the first two points of view. The last section is the conclusion. Use this method to explain the message in each of the four sections of the two poems above.
1.William Shakespeare section one: I think what he is trying to say that if he should compare someone to something beautiful.
William Shakespeare's poem was way easier for me to understand. Shakespeare in his poem was as if he was in love and describe his lover in words. When I read Edmund Spencer poem it was me really confusing .But when i read it the 3rd time i under stood the poem. What i think he is trying to say is that he loves or likes this girl and the more he shows his love for her the more she backs off.
2. The rhyme scheme divides sonnets into four sections. The first section is a question asked from one point of view, the second is the same question asked from another point of view. The third section is called the turn. The turn is a shift in focus or the thoughts of the first two points of view. The last section is the conclusion. Use this method to explain the message in each of the four sections of the two poems above.
1.William Shakespeare section one: I think what he is trying to say that if he should compare someone to something beautiful.
Section 2: what i think he is trying to say in this section is that, she is so pretty that it could be a bad thing every once in a while.
Section 3: this section is that no matter what happens he will always love her even if it gets bad every once in a while.
Section 4: that as long as he is with her and she still loves he and she loves him he will be happy.
2. Edmund Spencer section one: This came to me as if he likes some one but tries to hard and she does not like his attention.
2. Edmund Spencer section one: This came to me as if he likes some one but tries to hard and she does not like his attention.
Section 2 He wonders why does she not like him as much as he likes him.
Section 3: i think he is trying to say that how could some one love someone so much but can be so cold heart but still he loves her.
Section 4 Love is a very powerful thing and it will take over you.
Choose one more of Shakespeare's sonnets as well as another one of Spencer's sonnets. You can find these all over the Internet. Post each poem on your blog then: a. Label the rhyme scheme like my examples; b. explain the message in each of the four sections like you did in question #2.
(1) My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; (A)
Coral is far more red than her lips' red; (B)
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; (A)
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. (B)
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I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, (C)
But no such roses see I in her cheeks; (D)
And in some perfumes is there more delight(C)
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.(D)
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I love to hear her speak, yet well I know (E)
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;(F)
I grant I never saw a goddess go; (E)
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground :( F)
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And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare (G)
As any she belied with false compare. (G)
(2) Spencer’s sonnet
Choose one more of Shakespeare's sonnets as well as another one of Spencer's sonnets. You can find these all over the Internet. Post each poem on your blog then: a. Label the rhyme scheme like my examples; b. explain the message in each of the four sections like you did in question #2.
(1) My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; (A)
Coral is far more red than her lips' red; (B)
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; (A)
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. (B)
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I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, (C)
But no such roses see I in her cheeks; (D)
And in some perfumes is there more delight(C)
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.(D)
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I love to hear her speak, yet well I know (E)
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;(F)
I grant I never saw a goddess go; (E)
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground :( F)
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And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare (G)
As any she belied with false compare. (G)
(2) Spencer’s sonnet
Sonnet 75
"One day I wrote her name upon the stand, (A)
But came the waves and washed it away: (B)
Agayne I wrote it with a second hand, (A)
But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray.(B)
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"Vayne man," sayd she, "that doest in vaine assay,(B)
A mortall thing so to immortalize,(C)
For I my selve shall lyke to this decay, (B)
And eek my name bee wiped out lykewize."(C)
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"Not so," quod I, "let baser things devize(C )
To dy in dust, but you shall live in fame(D)
My verses your virtues rare shall eternize,(C)
And in heavens wryte your glorious name.(D)
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Where whenas death shall all the world subdew, (E)
Our love shall live, and later life renew."(E)
"One day I wrote her name upon the stand, (A)
But came the waves and washed it away: (B)
Agayne I wrote it with a second hand, (A)
But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray.(B)
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"Vayne man," sayd she, "that doest in vaine assay,(B)
A mortall thing so to immortalize,(C)
For I my selve shall lyke to this decay, (B)
And eek my name bee wiped out lykewize."(C)
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"Not so," quod I, "let baser things devize(C )
To dy in dust, but you shall live in fame(D)
My verses your virtues rare shall eternize,(C)
And in heavens wryte your glorious name.(D)
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Where whenas death shall all the world subdew, (E)
Our love shall live, and later life renew."(E)
1 comment:
This is a good start, but there is a little left to do. You have divided the sections of the sonnet apart very well, but now you have to explain what each section says. Let me know if you need help.
Leave me another comment when you have added this, so I can record your grade.
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