Spenser

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Spenser

• Sonnets 54 and 75

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Sonnet 54

• What is the rhyme scheme?
• What conceit does the narrator set up in the
  first quatrain?
• What does he compare a woman to?
• Paraphrase the final two lines of the poem.  

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Sonnet 75

• What is the rhyme scheme?
• What is the conversation the woman and man have
  about?
• What is the conceit?
• eternizing conceit?

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Spenserian Sonnets

• Rhyme Scheme?
• Does the content of the Octave and Sestet follow
  that of the Petrarchan sonnet (as seen in Wyatt)?

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Your Homework

• Shakespeare sonnets 55, 60, 130
• Begin Review Sheet, due (printed out) in class
  on Friday
• Types of Sonnets divided by author
• Bio know the few details we talked about each
  for poet
• Form rhyme scheme, textual division, etc
• Content do they have a turn or develop ideas?
• Themes common themes used, where do they come
  from? (hint, look to people they studied)

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Shakespeare (and his sonnets)

• Why is it called Shakespearan Sonnets?
• What is the role of the couplet?
• What is the rhyme scheme?
• 154 poems dealinging with love, beauty, politics,
  and morality

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• Who is WH?
• William Herbert, patron of 21 years, First Folio
  of Shakespeares works
• Henry Wriothesley, fair youth, Venus Adonis,
  The Rape of Lucrece

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• Procreation Sonnets (1- 17)
• What were sonnets 18-126 about?
• What were 127-152 about?
• What were 153-154 about?

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Sonnet 55

• What is a gilded monument?
• What is the rhyme in Line 2?
• What is the first quatrain about? What poem does
  this remind you of?
• What is the conceit?

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Sonnet 60

• Why is the word minutes in line 2 significant?
• What is the simile in the first quatrain?
• What is the gift in line 8?
• What does Time do with this gift according to the
  third quatrain?
• What are the pebbles in the couplet?

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Sonnet 130

• 55 and 60 were about the youth. What is 130
  about?
• Point out the inversion in this poem.
• Why is this poem considered anti-Petrarchan?
• What does the couplet say and why is it
  important?