Get out notebooks!
Name 5 adjectives
That are used
to describe
BEAUTY and LOVE
Warm Up
• Tell me what you know about the following
Figurative Language terms:
•Metaphor
•Simile
•Hyperbole
Definitions:
• Metaphor: a figurative language
device that compares two things
• Simile: a comparison between two
different things, especially a phrase
containing the word "like" or "as“
• Hyperbole: deliberate and obvious
exaggeration
• EXAMPLES?
Sonnets
• A Sonnet is a verse form that typically refers to
a concept of love.
• Sometimes unattainable love sometimes perfect
love sometimes lost love.
• A sonnet is a form of lyric poetry
• Lyric poetry presents the deep feelings and
emotions of the poet
• Song lyrics are also considered poetry
• The topic of most sonnets written in
Shakespeare's time were love or a theme related
to love.
Where did they come from?
• Sonnets were first developed by the Italian
poet, Francesco Petrarca.
• Petrarchan sonnets depict the addressed his
love in hyperbole made her a model of
perfection and inspiration.
Example of Petrarca’s work
The eyes of which I spoke so warmly, the
hands, The shoulders and the ankles and the
face, that separated me from my Self’s
space, And marked me out from every other
man: the lovely waving hair of shining gold, The
loving light of that angelic smile, that made a
paradise on earth a while, Are dust, a little dust,
senseless and grown cold.
What makes a sonnet?
• Sonnet form:
• 14 lines, ababcdcdefefgg,
• 10 syllables each line
• Iambic pentameter
• ( which is the rhythm of pairing ten
syllables)
Stuff to know
• There are seven rhymes in the pattern of abab
cdcd efef gg. (THREE quatrains and ONE
concluding couplet)
• This is a four-part argument or persuasion on a
single thought or emotion or theme. Each
quatrain contains a separate development of the
sonnets central idea and then the couplet is the
resolution or conclusion.
• Each line is it’s own sentence and has TEN
syllables in iambic pentameter. Listen to your
heartbeat and feel the rhythm of your poem.
(yes, seriously)
Iambic pentameter
• “Iambic pentameter is the rhythm of
our English language and of our bodies
– a line of that poetry has the same
rhythm as our heartbeat. A line of
iambic pentameter fills the human lung
perfectly, so it’s the rhythm of speech.”
--Ben Crystal(Shakespearean actor)
What else?
• Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets.
• Mostly about the theme of love…
• They contained metaphors, similes,
hyperbole and other forms of figurative
language.
• He changed Petrarca’s versions of what the
rules of a sonnet were.
Decoding figurative language
• What is the poem saying?
• What does the poet mean?
• By using metaphors and similes we can
figure it out…
• Try this one: Sonnet #130
Before we start
•Dun: brownish gray color
•Damask: grayish-pink color
•Belied: to contradict; to cancel
out or to show that something
is not real
• My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red.
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
•
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes there is more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
•
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound.
I grant I never saw a goddess go:
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
•
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
But what does it mean?
• Metaphors?
• Similes?
• Hyperbole?
• Is he being sarcastic or is he being sincere?
• Why do you think that?
My students wrote these opening
stanzas last year…
His eyes, to me stand out like heaven’s stars
His lips, be soft to kiss a floating cloud
His arms hold me, so safe like golden bars
Hold me close and make me oh so aroused.
I love her like fat boys do love cupcakes
I like when she shakes what her mom gave her.
With that smile, my heart is what she takes
When with her, like batter, my feelings stir.
His eyes like choc’late melting in the sun
Liquid pools of love to see into mine
Cheeks like meat under a hamburger bun.
He is edible love and oh so fine.
Due Wednesday
• Write a sonnet share it in class on
Wednesday.
• Come to tutoring on Tuesday for
help!!
• Don’t forget:
iambic pentameter and some juicy
figurative language that expresses
the way you feel.