Tuesday Night: Read Sonnet 42 by Petrarch and Sonnet 73 by Shakespeare and answer the following questions:
1. First, copy the first four lines of each poem down and mark the rhyme scheme of each one (pretty easy).
2. Next examine each poem, and write down the rhyme scheme for each entire poem. For example: ABBA, ABBA, CDC, CDC
3. Write down the theme or author/speaker's central message in each poem.
4. Write down two examples of literary devices used in each poem.
5. Explain how the literary devices in #4 contribute to the theme of each poem.
Sonnet 42 Petrarch
Sprinkles the grass with gleam and glitter of showers,
Powdering pearl and diamond, dripping with flowers,
Dropping wet flowers, dancing the winters going;
The swallow twitters, the groves of midnight are glowing
With nightingale music and madness; the sweet fierce powers
Of love flame up through the earth; the seed-soul towers
And trembles; nature is filled to overflowing…
The spring returns, but there is no returning
Of spring for me. O heart with anguish burning!
She that unlocked all April in a breath
Returns not…And these meadows, blossoms, birds
These lovely gentle girls—words, empty words
As bitter as the black estates of death!
That time of year thou mayst in me behold (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, 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 deathbed whereon it must expire, Consumed with that which it was nourished by. This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long. |
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