Shakespeare Rockiths
The Bard, The Freytag, The Sonnets
Who was Shakespeare?
•https://www.youtube.co
m/watch?v=CIB8rpuNU7
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Gustav Freytag & his pyramid
A German Dramaturge (a literary
advisor in the theatre who helped
playwrights and directors) wrote
Technik des Dramas in 1863 in
which he explained a system for
DRAMATIC STRUCTURE
which was later named
FREYTAG’S PYRAMID
Activity
• In your groups, create a FREYTAG PYRAMID using a movie
or your favorite animated movie.
• (Think Pixar and Disney!)
Sonnets and Iambic
Pentameter
Rhythms of Life
Sonnets
• A Sonnet is a verse form that typically refers to a concept of
unattainable 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.
Those eyes, 'neath which my passionate rapture rose,
The arms, hands, feet, the beauty that erewhile
Could my own soul from its own self beguile,
And in a separate world of dreams enclose,
The hair's bright tresses, full of golden glows,
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What makes a sonnet?
• Sonnet form:
• 14 lines, ababcdcdefefgg,
• 10 syllables each line
• Iambic pentameter
• ( which is the rhythm of pairing ten
syllables)
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
10th grade students wrote these
opening stanzas…
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 Next Class!!
• Write a sonnet & Don’t forget the
iambic pentameter and some juicy
figurative language that expresses
the way you feel.
This one is about love
Romantic, Family, Friend, Pet, Food,
etc. – Just something you love!!