- The Sonnet Defined
- Etymology
- Italian: sonnetto: little song
- Provençal: sonet: son: poem
- Latin: sonus: sound
- Examples
- Petrarch
- "Psalm 150 "
- Shakespeare
- John Milton: "When I Consider How My Light is Spent"
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese 43: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways
- William Wordsworth
- Too Much Glory
Advanced Studies: Meter
Assignments
* Journal: Sonnet Analysis
- Find one Italian sonnet. Locate the line of the turn (volta) and copy that line down. Explain how the meaning of the poem shifts at that line.
- Find one English sonnet. Locate the line of the turn (volta) and copy that line down down. Explain how the meaning of the poem shifts at that line.
* Journal: Sonnet Imitation
- Find and hand copy one sonnet written before 1800 (this could be one above or another you find and like).
- Find and hand copy one sonnet written after 1800 (this could be one above or another you find and like).
- Now you will create your own sonnet using one of the poems you copied.
- Model your poem after one or the other that you copied.
- So, you need to have the same rhyme scheme (end-rhyme pattern).
- You also need to try to write it in a similar kind of meter, but you will not lose points if can't meet this requirement perfectly. This is challenging for many people to do.
- You could choose the same theme or a different theme as that shown in your model.
- Your turn or volta should occur in the same line that your model does, which means your meaning should shift in the same line as your model.
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