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