Like Poetry? This exercise drives home some of the concepts in Tasks 1-4
Poetry is the form of writing which uses repetition on many levels to produce a pleasing effect. As such, we can look at various kinds of repetition in poetry to illustrate how repletion of key words and phrases and sentence patterns makes your paragraphs more coherent.
You will read one of Shakepeare’s sonnets below. Sonnets are love poems written in a standard form. Shakespeare is the English language's greatest playwright, and one of its greatest lyric poets. Some of the sonnets he wrote contain lines as well known as any in the plays. One of the perennial themes of Western literature--the brevity of life--is given poignantly personal and highly original expression in many of these poems. In the first sonnet he compares the aging process to the onset of winter, to the fading of daylight and to the dying down of a fire so powerfully that one is surprised at the conclusion to realize that this is after all a love poem, expressing in a fresh way the old theme of tempus fugit ("time flies"), to tell his beloved that love can be more intense when one realizes that it is doomed to be brief.
Read the sonnet several times, and then respond to the prompt that follows.
Sonnet 73
That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, (1) where late the sweet birds sang
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire,
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the death-bed whereon it must expire,
Consumed with that which it was nourished by.
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
(1) The empty tree branches are compared to choir stalls, or benches. where late the sweet birds sang.
(2) late = a while ago
(3) ere = before
Prompt:
1. List words, phrases and images that deal with decay:
2. List all the words and phrases which deal with time:
3. List words and phrases that deal with death:
4. What sounds are repeated?
5. Post song lyrics that contain interesting repetitions and point to these patterns.
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time--twilight of such day, expire, black night take away, sunset fadeth.
ReplyDeletedecay--few leaves hang, death's second self, ashes of youth doth lie, consumed.
death--ruined choirs, twilight of such day, sunset fadeth in the west(maybe the death of the daylight?), death's second self, that seals up all the rest, ashes of youth, death bed.
1. when yellow leaves, or none do hand, sunset fadeth, black night take away, ashes of his youth doth lie,death bed, expire.
ReplyDelete2. yellow leaves (time of year), black night, ere long, sunset fadeth west.
3.black night doth take away, death bed, expire, love must leave ere long
4.day, away, west, rest
1. decay: sunset fadeth,black night, ashes,deathbed
ReplyDelete2. time:twilight, sunset fadeth, black night,
3. death:death bed ,ashes, sunset faded away
1. decay:few, yellow, fadeth, ashes,expire, consumed, ruined.
ReplyDelete2. time: year, late, day, night,expire, long.
3. death: none, cold, black night, death-bed, leave.
4. behold,cold; hang, sang; day, away; west, rest; sweet birds sang; by and by black night; fire, expire; lie, by; strong,long; second self that seals; with that which it was; well.
5. Song will be in another post.
1. Words or phrases and images that deal with decay- none, or few, do hang; shake against the cold; fadeth; Death's second self
ReplyDelete2. The words and phrases that deal with time- yellow leaves; twilight of such day; sunset; black night; expire; ere
3. words and phrases that deal with death-ruined choirs; Death's second self; ashes; death-bed; must expire;
4. Sounds that are repeated- by and by; singing-(birds, choirs);
1.Deaths second self, few, hang and sunset
ReplyDelete2. twilight of such day, black night, twilight of such day
3. Deaths second self, death bed
4. by and by, singing
1. decay : ruined, fadeth, black, ashes, yellow leaves?, and consumed.
ReplyDelete2. time : time, year, when, late, twilight, sunset, night, his youth, long, and expire.
3. death : death, ashes, death bed, expire, thou must leave.
4. every other sentence rymes
5. Too late for another direction ; always what they had in store ; hurry back we've all been waiting ; we cant't take much anymore. Nickleback
1.Bared ruined choirs, blacknight cloth take away. Deaths second self, that seals up all in rest.
ReplyDelete2.That time of year thou mayst in me behold.When yellow leaves, or none,or few,do hang In me thou see'st the twilight of such day,which by and by.In me thou sees't the glowing of such fire. Where late the sweetbirds sang.
3.As after sunset faded in the west; That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, as the death-bed whereon it must expire, To love that well which thou much leave ere long.
4.dark,leaving, fadeth,death
1."...ashes of his youth doth lie." as the death-bed where it must expire"
ReplyDelete2. "... The time of year thou mayest in me behold" " yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang" " by and by black night do take away" " death-bed where on it must expire." "thou must leave ere long"
3.'...death-bed expire' ; ashes, death second self, bare ruined choirs, fadeth
4. Its sounds like and ending the is repeated in different forms
5.Song- li' wayne- something you forgot
"since ive lost you im lost to,feeling like he at the bottom like a horse shoe. Sorry for the trouble I put you and your heart through,God knows that I'd do anything for a part two.Be praying for the day you come back to me, give me another chance, Im needing it like a kidney."
Well you're lost in Juarez in the rain
ReplyDeleteand it's Easter time too, and your gravity fails and negativity won't pull you through, well don't put on any airs when you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue, they got some hungry women there and they'll really make a mess out of you. . .
I started out on Burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff. Everybody said they'd stand behind me when the game got rough. But the joke was on me there was nobody even there to bluff. I'm going back to New York City, I do believe I've had enough.
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Love letters straight
from your heart
Keep us so near
While apart
I'm not alone
in the night
When I can have
all the love you write . . .
I memorize
every line
And I kiss the name
that you sign . . .
And darling then
I'll read again
right from the start . . .
Love letters
straight . . .
from your heart.
Oh . . .
ReplyDeleteextra credit for those who guess who is singing the song in my head . . .
1. yellow leaves, Bare ruined choirs, ashes
ReplyDelete2. time of year, twilight of such day, twilight of such day, black night, youth
3. black night, Death's second self, ashes of his youth, death-bed
4. -old, -ay, -est, -ire
1.yellow leaves, or none,or few bare ruined choirs faded 2time of year twilight,black night3.deaths second half, death bed 4.sweet birds songs
ReplyDeleteisnt that song from Brian Adams, Straigh from the Heart, Ms Tobias
ReplyDelete