Friday, November 8, 2013

Fri. Nov. 8: Shakespeare Analysis

Today. we reviewed your answers from last class on determining rhyme scheme (iambic pentameter). You then handed these in.
I then gave you a sonnet to read. We reviewed active reading and analysis, and then you had time to work on this. I also gave you multiple choice questions to answer after the analysis portion is complete (don't just jump into the questions, as you must know the poem in order to really "get" the questions).
These are due for Wednesday. If you were not here today, the readings and questions are in your portfolio.

I am pasting the sonnet here as it is available online. However, you will have to come in on Tuesday and get the questions from the portfolio.

Sonnet CXXX

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 is there 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.

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