Block Day: Sonnets

* Open

• Online Grammar Review: Loose vs. Lose
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• Roots
• Mania--madness
• Mar, mari, mer--sea, pool
• Recite

• The Sonnet Defined
• Etymology
• Italian: sonnetto: little song
• Provencal: sonet: son: poem
• Latin: sonus: sound
• Examples
• Petrarch
• "Psalm 150 "
• Shakespeare  
• Sonnet CXXX
• Sonnet XVIII
• Sonnet XII (and song, perhaps) 

• 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

• Christina Rossetti
• Robert Frost
• Here are a couple from Mr. Renault
• Later, perhaps
• Jorge Luis Borges
• Billy Collins 
• Pop Sonnets

* Coastal Poem

* Dante

HW: Coastal Poem; Dante