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Shakespeare
Poetry
Shelby Davis, Nicholas Ghanayem,
Areeba Ahmed, Patrick Doyle
Style of writing
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Shakespeare used a lot of words
that are out of date by now
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He wrote in stanza form
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Blank verse: unrhymed iambic
pentameter
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Iambic pentameter: five beats of
allternating unstressed and
stessed syllables; ten syllables
per line
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all of his poems were very long;
10-50 stanzas
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Many of his poems were about
love and his feelings towards
others
Famous Poems
The Phoenix and the Turtle
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was about how the Phoenix and the
Turtle love eachother even though
they are different
A Lovers Complaint
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is about a a girl who is a very
popular suiter for males to marry
The Rape of Lucrece
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is a narrative poem by Shakespeare
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it’s about the legendary Lucretia
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lacks the humerous tone of the
earlier poem Venus and Adonis
Critism
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Shakespeare’s poems have been rivaled; his rivals are Michael Drayton, Samuel Daniel and
Edmund Spenser
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his writing was thought to be hard to understand
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Robert Greene did not like Shakesperes work
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Samuel Pepys though his work was ridicolus
Robert Greene
Life Events
Events
discovery of Pompeii
Sir Fancess’ route
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he was elected chancelor of Stanford
Unniversery
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him and his wife were very close
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discovery of Pompeii
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Queen Elizabeth gave permission for
foregn relationshions between England
and Japan
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Sir Frances returned to England after
sailing the globe
Reflects through his poems
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he got to see other peoples work, more
ideas
states why his poems are about love
inspired him to be more creative
made him more aware of the world
made him see the greatness in Englis
people