“Sonnet 1” Edmund Spenser
1. Dramatic Situation- Poet writing about his love for a woman. It’s sad, but happy in a sense that it’s meant for the women to read the poem.
2. Structure of Poem- Sonnet, iambic pentameter
3. Theme-Poet wants to be seen as if he sees his love
4. Grammer/meaning- Proper English, very loving
5. Important images/figures of speech- “Angles blessed look”
6. Important Words in Poem- “Leaves, Lines, and Rhymes”,”helicon” (sacred site due to greek gods)
7. Tone- Sad from poets perspective, happy from the readers, His lover/lady
8. Literary devices- imagery, metaphor
9. Prosody- The flow of the poem makes it seem as if the poet were speaking from his heart, which in fact he is. The last two lines however sum up the whole poem.
“The Passionate Shepherd to his Love” by Christopher Marlowe
1. The shepherd wants to express his feelings to his love
2. Pastoral Poem
3. Love
4. Very descriptive and emotional
5. Sheep, nature, the pasture
6. Shepherd
7. The tone is very warm and loving
8. Imagery, rhyme scheme, imagery
9. The structure (Pastoral Poem) shows how the author wants to show how nature and living a simple life is the best. (Go sheep!)
“Sonnet 39” by Sir Philip Sidney
1. He can’t sleep, but he really wants to, describes sleep and why it’s awesome.
2. Sonnet, iambic pentameter
3. Escapism- describes sleep as an escape from life that we all can use
4. Descriptive of what it’s like when you sleep, where you sleep, who desires it
5. Bedroom, darkness, escape
6. Sleep
7. Admiring, he admires sleep
8. Imagery, metaphors
9. Examples of why sleep is awesome and how it makes problems and the world around disappear. Theme of escapism (freedom) juxtaposed why the structure of the sonnet (constraint)
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