Tuesday, February 28, 2017
First up-warm-up-Mindful Minutes:
1.
Tuesday time out – Grab the small handout from front desk and read.
2.
Sit quietly focusing on and reflecting upon the message provided and how the message applies
to your life.
3.
Journal your thoughts.
Today’s Activities:
1. Shakespeare’s Poetry
Homework:
1. Thinking about poem
Shakespeare
Romeo& Juliet
The Prologue
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Shakespeare’s poetry
Romeo& Juliet
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy:
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot
Nor arm nor face nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O be some other name.
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself.
Shakespeare’s poetry
Shakespeare’s sonnets are written in a strict poetic form that was very
popular during his lifetime. Broadly speaking, each sonnet engages images
and sounds to present an argument to the reader.
Sonnet Characteristics
• A sonnet is simply a poem written in a certain format. You can identify a
sonnet if the poem has the following characteristics:
• 14 lines. All sonnets have 14 lines which can be broken down into four
sections called quatrains.
• A strict rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is
ABAB / CDCD / EFEF / GG (note the four distinct sections in the
rhyme scheme).
• Written in iambic Pentameter. Sonnets are written in iambic pentameter,
a poetic meter with 10 beats per line made up of alternating unstressed
and stressed syllables.
• A sonnet can be broken down into four sections called quatrains. The
first three quatrains contain four lines each and use an alternating rhyme
scheme. The final quatrain consists of just two lines which both rhyme.
Shakespeare’s poetry
#18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
#130
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 damasked, 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.
Shakespeare’s poetry
HOW TO WRITE A SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET
Each quatrain should progress the poem as follows:
First quatrain: This should establish the subject of the sonnet.
Number of lines: 4. Rhyme Scheme: ABAB
Second quatrain: This should develop the sonnet’s theme.
Number of lines: 4. Rhyme Scheme: CDCD
Third quatrain: This should round off the sonnet’s theme.
Number of lines: 4. Rhyme Scheme: EFEF
Fourth quatrain: This should act as a conclusion to the sonnet.
Number of lines: 2. Rhyme Scheme: GG