Poems (12/8/11)

Tips for poetry explication from Ms. Garliss

• Read poem
• Scan
• Read again
• Ask Questions (literary devices, scan)
• Read again 1. Thesis--3 controlling ideas--Diction, figurative language, person, structure, meter...2. Unique thought (broader, bigger picture)

"Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show" Sir Philip Sidney (Poem)

Based on group discussion (small groups)

• Sonnet
• Cacophanic
• Enjambment
• Anxiety
• Lost lover
• Thoughts=chaotic
• True love
• Personification
• One with life (brings poem to life)
• Goal: write poem (Inspired and alive)
• Truth= important
• Wants to be honest

Explication on lines (In class)

• Sunburnt brain- tired, trying to become inspired, "burnt out"
• Line 9-10- Study to bring unique thought but not inspired
• Line 11-12- Pregnant with words--birth poem/expression to show love but cannot
• Line 13- Pen is neglecting duty
• Line 14- Muse=inspiration
• Idea/thesis- Ideas come from personal experiences and passion

*Sir Thomas Wyatt and Sir Philip Sidney brought the Italian sonnet to England

"Whoso List to Hunt" Sir Thomas Wyatt (Poem) (In class)

• Sonnet
• Thought to be about Anne Boleyn
• Rhymes (Eye rhyme-- in category of Slant rhyme-------Slant rhymes= imperfect rhymes)
• ABBA ABBA CDDC EE-- Petrarchan
• Iambic Pentameter
• Octet (8)- Problem/Situation/dilemma----Problem= loves a lady (unrequited)
• Sestet (6)- Resolution---Not available
• Impression- women leading the speaker on, not catchable
• Hunting metaphor

*3 New Vocab Words (Look for definitions on sheet)

• Pastoral Poem
• Anaphora
• Antithesis

"Batter my Heart" John Donne (poem)

• 14th Holy Sonnet
• Line 4- not iambic
• Reason= Viceroy (not bringing joy, enemy)
• Personal and not a typical rhyme scheme
• Does not feel loved back
• Feels imprisoned
• ABBA ABBA CDDC EE-- Petrarchan
• Octet (8)- Problem: Looking to God for help, wants to be brought back (has been there before)
• Sestet (6)- Resolution:

B block notes

Mrs. Garliss handed out 3 more vocab words- pastoral poem, anaphora, and antithesis.

Sir Philip Sidney(Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show)- Ambassador to Italy. Brought Petrarchan/ Italian sonnet back to England.

"Loving in Truth, and Fain in my verse..."

Man in love, fighting to express his feelings, also experiencing writer's block

Looked at other's work to seek inspiration didn't work

"Thus great with child to speak..."line 12- metaphor within metaphor- pregnant with child + child= words and ideas

Muse(line 14) could be his love or a source of inspiration

"...some pleasure of my pain"line 2- double entendre- pain put into poem + pain of unrequited love

Repetition P, S, F, ans B sounds

Ms. Garliss handed out print-out of 2 poems.

"Whoso List to hunt" Sir Thomas Wyatt

• Found rhyme scheme
• Slant Rhyme- Imperfect Rhyme. ex. wind & mind.
• Petrarchan Sonnet
• Octet(8) - Problem/situation
• Sonnet(6)- resolution
• Iambic
• Tries to catch Hind(deer) and wind(uncatchable)
• Caesar= king. Boleyn belonged to king + who would choose Wyatt over King
• Line 14- She may be teasing him + not as nice as she seems(coniving)
• Graven(lines 11+12)- foreshadowing her beheading

"Batter My Heart"- John Donne

• Doesn't flow
• Cerrated, inconsistent style
• Ravish/chaste(line 14)-antithesis
• No solution sestet
• Reason vs. Faith

Steps to explication

1. Scan it- rhyme, meter, type of poem

2. Thesis- 3 controlling Ideas with 3 sub-ideas each.

12/6/11 B block notes

December 6th - Explication paper due. NO RUBRIC

December 9th - Sonnet rough draft due. (Must have 4 lines, use prompt, 14 lines, Iambic)

December 12th and 13th - STUDY FOR EXAMS!

December 16th - Rewrites for Debate Paper due.

December 19th - ENGLISH EXAM!!!

January 3rd - Bring 'Their Eyes were Watching God"

January 6th - Metaphor Rewrite due

January 12th - Explication Rewrite due

January 13th - 2nd Quarter ends!

12/6/11

We ran out of time! so Makeda will author on Thursday. Bottom line: Explication papers should have thoughtful analysis that is unique and shows deeper insights and findings than the surface meanings.

English Honors 12/5/11

"Not the marble, nor the gilded monuments" (#55) by: William and Shakespeare

Point:

- Words will outlast man made objects

- Writers can keep things perserved forever

-Those written in poetry can be immortalized

- His love in the poem can withstand things that objects like stautues and gold can't

- could be about LOVE- not particulary about a person- personified throughout the poem

-could be about POETRY

-could be about a PERSON- persona's lover

Literary Aspects

-Sluttish- (english def.) dirty, careless, unkept, (modern def.) lewd ---> love withstands "sluttish" times

- (if believe that the poem is about love)Love uses personification throughout the poem

After reading the modern translation:

-About poerty and how the poetry is the persona's love

"Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show" by: Sir Philip Sidney

- Written: Not iambic, hexameter

- Rhyme Scheme: ababababcacadd

Home work: Reread poem and answer questions 1-11 on pg. 59 (25 min)

12/5/11 Notes

Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments (p. 512)

Themes:
- Love and poetry is eternal
- Love is more important than wealth

"You" could be referring to:
- a woman
- the reader (people in general)
- the poem
- Shakespeare
- Love

"Sluttish Times"
- lewd
- careless
- homewreckers

*****
FINAL DRAFT of explication paper due long block of this week
Rough Draft of Sonnet is Friday
"Smooth Draft" of Sonnet due Friday January 6th
Final Draft of Sonnet due Monday January 9th
*****

December 2nd- ClassNotes

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?

2nd Quatrain

untrimmed- unstopped, the seasons are changing and nature has its own course

3rd Quatrain- new idea that starts with "but"

thy- a young woman or love

nor shall....- death is bragging that the woman is wondering in her shade, death is not able to get her, her beauty will not die because it is written in the poem, her beauty from his perspective at the time

Heroic Couplet

this- the poem

My Mistresses Eyes are Nothing like the Sun

Her Eyes- compared to the sun showing that they are not like the sun, dull

Her Lips- compared to coral showing that her lips are not red but natural

Her Breasts- compared to snow showing that her breasts are brownish gray (dun)

Her Hair- compared to black wire (string/thread)

Her Cheeks- compared to roses, her cheeks are not rosy

Her Breath- compared to perfume showing that it reeks

Her Voice/Speech- compared to music but her voice/speech is not melodious

Walking- compared to a goddess walking, she treads

parody to sonnets and sonneteers

choppy comparisons, does not flow like normal sonnets

In Class Notes 12/2 Sonnet Explications

• "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"

Main Plot line

• Shakespeare Sonnet 18
• Personna: A man in love
• Comparison: young love to a summer's day

Explication/Line-by-Line

• Line 2: temperate- gentle, not as extreme as summer day
• Line 3: May considered summer
• Line 4: Summer is too short
• Line 5: Eye of heaven = sun
• Line 6: And often is his gold complection dimmed = clouded sun
• Line 7: Physical beauty declines eventually
• Line 8: hardest sentence, untrimmed: nautical term, nature is not predictable and exactly structured: she is not structured
• Line 9: change in idea, her "summer" will never fade
• Line 10: she will never lose her fairness
• Line 11: alluding to religious belief, saying that death will never brag about taking his lover's beauty
• Line 12: His poem will keep her alive and always remember her memories and beauty, not only kept alive but also growing through his literature
• Line 13 and 14: As long as men are living, this poem will always give her life

Question: If this was written about you by a man you care about would you find it complimentary?

• Insulting: the only reason she would be remembered is because of his poetry, confidence in his poetry
• Complimenting
• Could go either way

"My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun"

Main Plot

• Shakespeare Sonnet 130

Comparisons

• Eyes: Sun
• Lips: Coral: Not red/natural
• Breasts: Snow: Dun (brownish gray)
• Hair: Wires: Black, Thick
• Roses: Cheeks: Not red, damasked: streaked
• Breath: Perfumes: It "reeks"
• Voice: Music: Not pleasant
• Walking: Goddess: She treads
• Similes and Metaphors: to the point and simple

Vocab

• Dun: brownish gray
• Damasked: streaked
• Belied: misrepresented
• Rare: special

Difference from Sonnet 18

• mentions bad physical features, yet ends with how he still loves her
• truth shown in couplet
• Tone: how she is not perfect
• Couplet: He thinks his love is special, because he doesn't need to compare her to false things (like a summer's day)- he can be honest about why he truley loves her

Question: Is this poem more genuine than "Shall I Compare thee to a Summer's Day?

• Idea: First One: To her, Second one: about her, not said directly to her?
• Parody: to other's work and maybe his own, of more typical sonnet
• Others have many allusions and elaborate comparisons: his straight forward and to the point
• Sarcastic tone
• Meaning is genuine: human love, yet he is trying to make his own point: poets over-exadgerate

Wed. and Thurs. 11/30 & 12/1

Writing Workshop was active and productive today for the Orange class!


Working in pairs, the entire period is provided for you to help a classmate and revise/strengthen  your own paper.  This explication paper is challenging.  Make sure you see me if you have any questions.  The final draft is due next week during your long block.  Remember to refer to the persona, not the poet, to write in present tense, and to put the title of your poem in quotation marks.  


Debate papers were handed back and rewrites are due before the start of exams.  


Your next writing assignment is the personal Sonnet!  The rough draft is due next Friday, December 9.  The "smooth draft" due Friday, January 6 and the FINAL DRAFT due 1/9/12.

 

11/29/11

Today you took your Vocab part II quiz and worked on an a-typical sonnet written by poet Henry Howard titled "Alas! So now all things do Hold their Peace."  We explicated together and shared our different interpretations and findings.  The rhyme scheme was unique, there was a sestet and then an octave, some sentences were not in iambic pentameter, and there was a heroic couplet!  Friday we will go back to looking closely at typical Shakespearean Sonnets!

11/28/11

Sonnets

• 14 lines
• iambic pentameter (almost always)
• popular during Renaissance

- 2 main types:

1. Italian Petrarchan

• contains a problem/ situation/question in an 8 octave. (abbaabba)
• the resolution/answer in in a 6 sestet (cdecde)

2. English/Shakespearean

• 3 quatrains (meaning 4), ending with 1 couplet.
• 1 quatrain (abab)
• 2nd 8 (cdcd)
• 3rd 8 (efef)
• heroic couplet (resolutions) gg

heroic couplet. 2 lines that rhyme.

*sonnets almost always rhyme

example pg. 248 in poetry book

Monday November 28

1.) And walked / with in/ward glo/ry crowned ---Iambic tetrameter (U/U/U/U/)

2.) Beneath/ an up/turned boat ---Iambic trimeter (U/U/U/)

Sonnets

14 lines, Iambic pentameter (almost always!), popular during Renaissance

2 types

Italian/Petrarchan

problem/situation/question: 8 (abbaabba rhyme scheme)

resolution/answer: 6 (cdecde rhyme scheme)

English/Shakespearean

*3 quatrains

*1 couplet

1st quatrain: abab rhyme scheme

2nd quatrain: cdcd rhyme scheme

3rd quatrain: efef rhyme scheme

heroic couplet (resolution): gg rhyme scheme

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Couplet: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee

*"So" indicates that the sonnet is coming to a close

*"This" is referring to the sonnet itself--as long as the poem lives, so does she

*Begins talking about the girl in the third quatrain, saying she is better than summer

**QUIZ TOMORROW**

**Read Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?**

Tuesday 11/22/11

There are a handful of you absent today -- hopefully on your way to visit family for Thanksgiving!  I collected the explications on "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" that you completed for homework, and I will give extra credit to those who did an above-average job.  We worked on scanning exercises individually and then shared our results on the board.  I put a copy of the exercise in your files in the classroom.

Meter consists of TWO components:  1.  the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in 2. lines of a set length.  Helpful hints when scanning a line of poetry include:
1-start with iambic to see if you hear the da-dum sound.  
2-if more than two lines are provided, read both lines since both will have the same pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
3-look for the most important words in the line.  Usually but NOT always, they are the ones that are stressed.

• Hexameter = 6 feet in a line
• Check out Moodle for some Scanning Practice exercises in prepartion for exams.
• Raleigh used the word "nymph" on purpose (vs. "a girl's")--- to add to his poem's meaning, tone and purpose. I am eager to see if anyone included this in their explications!
• No homework this weekend.  The next vocabulary quiz is TUESDAY, the 29th. 

I am thankful for all of you and wish you a relaxing, memorable Thanksgiving with your families.  

Monday 21 November 2011

Notes:
Meter- recurrence of regular beats in a poetic line. The most common unit of meter is the Foot.
Foot-Combination of two or three stressed and/or unstressed syllables.
Meter also refers to the number of feet in a line. To scan a line is to determine its metrical pattern.

Four Most Common Metrical Feet in English Poetry

1. Iambic (u /)
   
2. Trochaic (/ u)
   
3. Anapestic (u u /)
4. Dactylic (/ u u)

Number of Feet

• Monometer
• Dimeter
• Trimeter
• Tetrameter
• Pentameter

Happy Birthday = trochaic dimeter HAppy BIRTHday

Sonnets: 14 lines, Iambic Pentameter, Shakespeare not very popular, but he liked to write them.


ROUGH DRAFT FOR EXPLICATION PAPER AND FINAL FOR METAPHOR PAPER DUE: DECEMBER 1.
YOU HAVE 10 DAYS! (just thought I'd let you know)

Hope you liked the picture!

A Block Thursday November 17th

Carpe Diem "Seize the Day"

To His Coy Mistress

Who? - Women (not a mistress as we know it); Man is talking.

What? - Saying seize the day; Come sleep with me

Where? - England

Why? - Time is fleeting.

When - NOW.

From this, you can write two sentences to summarize the poem.

Stanza 1:

Tone: Loving. "Vegetable Love" Calming. "Had we enough time..."

Flirtatious and Convincing; Ganges - Impress(Knowledge).

Religion - Jews.

Is he sincere?

Stanza 2:

But... (sleeping with me) your beauty doesn't last forever.

Tone: Forceful, Melancholy, Doom.

He seems Impatient

Lewd - Disgusting

Stanza 3:

More Urgent, Combo of Stanzas 1 & 2.

Lines 1 & 2 are sincere.

Amorous Bird of Pray; Fires; Devour - Scary...

Diction makes rhythm of this stanza faster; Vocab & Syntax

*Tone = Mood

Depends on a lot of other things.

*Alliteration = Initial sounds of the word beginning with vowel or consonant that are repeated in close succession. * Don't have to be right next to each other.

-Stanza 1: More Charming, Wooing.

Line 4: long love's day

Line 3: which way

Line 2: Coyness, lady, were no crime

Line 20: Love at lower

-Stanza 2: Less Charming.

Line 21: But at my back

Line 31: Private place

Line 26-27: Shall sound my echoing song

With this, you can write an Opening Paragraph!

B Block 11/16/11

To His Coy Mistress

Carpe Diem- "Seize the Day"

46 lines

3 stanzas

in this situation...

coy means shy

mistress means a desirable single woman

Who? Man speaking of a lot of Love for his partner

What? If we had all the time in the world, than it would be acceptable to be shy, and hesitate before your actions. However we do not have all the time in the world, so we must seize the day (Carpe Diem)

Where? Early in relationship

When?

Why? ulterior motive

Is the poem lewd?

is he just trying to convince her to share his bed? does he really mean that he will love her forever?

What is the major theme of each stanza?

Stanza 1

• Had we enough time
• India
• Conversion of Jews (the Jews will never convert)
• impressing her
• compliment and flatters her
• 1.15
• Romantic, but urging

Stanza 2

• Doom- Time
• "Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near" Time is catching up to us.
• soon, we shall be dead and have missed our chance
• reality check
• unlike stanza 1, it is not romantic.
• too aggressive, and trying to be persuasive.
• melancholy
• Deserts vast eternity
• Lost

Stanza 3

• But we do not have time, so...
• present time
• sincere, sweet
• tempo increases
• more determined
• lustful again

Tone: The way the poem makes the reader feel. The mood it creates.

Diction: vocabulary, and syntax

Alliteration: Occurs when initial sounds of a word are repeated in close succession.

Look at alliteration in the three stanzas.

Look at stanza 2, and compare the aliteration to the alliteration in stanzas 1 & 3.

There is very little to no alliteration in stanza 2. why is this?

more aggressive, tone, not as playful of a stanza.

Class Notes 11/15 B block

Homework: Bring things for safety pins. Work on Papers, Quest Next Week on Poetic Terms (moodle)

Theme for all three poems: Time. Carpe Diem - "seize the day"

The Passionate Shepherd to his love:

Speaker: Poor Shepherd *not Marlowe

Shepherd's Message: He is pursuing a woman of a higher ranking than him.

- he is making promises in order to try to woo her

- his promises are not literal -> metaphor for his love for her

Rhythm = Iambic tetrameter (four beats)

- sounds like a heartbeat, playful, lyrical

Could be symbolic of anyone with a love for someone who seems unattainable

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time:

Speaker: Wise man

Audience: Young girls

Message: Giving advice.

- Cherish youth.

- Take advantage of youth + the time one has now.

- You are a flower, take advantage of the time when you are blooming.

-"Seize the Day" before it is too late

Sun, "lamp of heaven"

- metaphor

- personification - "he is running"

Personification

- Old time is flying, the flower smiles

"Then be not coy, but use your time,    And while ye may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime,    You may forever tarry."

 - Coy - shy/cautious

 - Do not waste your time. Go enjoy + get married while you are at the prime of youth

"Virgin" - Symbolizes youth

Class Notes 11/15

Refer to assignment sheet for homework.

Paper due on Friday and rough draft due Friday as well.

On moodle, go to English, Under "Poetry Rocks" go to companion site. Look at the Lit Quiz questions, many of them are on the exam and on tests.

To His Coy Mistress:

How it is a man speaking to a woman he wants telling her how she needs to seize the day because she is getting older, and he wants her to take control now and give into his conquests. Talking about how she only has a certain amount of time before she no longer has her beauty so she should take the time now to be with him before it is too late.

- Examples:

"Times winged chariot hurrying near"

"Now let us sport us while we may, and now, like amorous birds of prey"

TIME with Passionate Shepherd, Coy Mistress, To the virgins IS CONSTANT THEME

****Carpe Diem

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Male addressing female

Continuous theme of carpe diem

Imagery in first four lines:

Comparing young women to flowers (metaphor)

The flower blooms, then dies -- time of blossoming for women, then it goes away

It is a gift to be young, true gift to give your virginity to another person

Because you can only give it to one other person

Time is flying (personification)

Double meaning with title, To the Virgins --both virgins and young women

What is the privilege to being young?

Enjoy time as it is now because time is flying so enjoy youth

Next four lines

"Glorious lamp of heaven" = the sun

Appreciate the day because the sun is constantly rising and we are constantly getting older

Gift of being young, don't always realize what a gift it is

Next four lines

Time always succeeds youth, indulge in it while you can

Seize the day

Next four lines

Don't be too shy, use your time

Once you use your prime of youth, you may just waste the rest of your life as well

Explication: The speaker is encouraging young women to seize the day, take advantage of youth, and to see it as a gift. He does that through the use of metaphors, examples--sun, running--also the rhyming: more of a draw, enticing, upbeat. Personification of time as thief and as flying.

Tomorrow: Bring with you any kind of thin paper, magazine, MAKING OF PINS ON THURSDAY. Work on papers.

Notes from 11/14/11

• Notes from Monday's (11/14/11) class:
• Together, we will explore Renaissance poetry, and we will learn how to write intelligent explications of the selected poems. In keeping with my goal to "light personal fires," we will explore how poetry invites us to experience the lives and emotions of others, giving us the confidence and inspiration to articulate our own.
• READY, SET, EXPLICATE!
• A poetry explication is a relatively short analysis which describes the possible meanings and relationships of the words, images, and other small units that make up a poem. Writing an explication is an effective way for a reader to connect a poem's plot and conflicts with its structural features. 
• unfold the meaning 
• write in your poetry books as you read, or find a personal way to annotate if you read online
• don't forget to look for rhythm, rhyme scheme, similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration, connsonance, and other poetic devices and include these in your explication.  

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