ENGL 1005H Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: My Last Duchess, John Donne, Lyric Poetry
8 Dec 2016
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September 14, 2016 english love and hate lecture. How do i love thee (sonnet 43) by elizabeth barrett browning. Throughout the poe(cid:373), she(cid:859)s talki(cid:374)g a(cid:271)out the little (cid:449)a(cid:455)s she lo(cid:448)es (cid:858)thee(cid:859). The(cid:374) at the e(cid:374)d of the poem, it has a big finish. End of the poem talks about death. Both a love poem and a prayer. Petrarchan or italian sonnet: an octave and sestet (based on rhyme scheme) Rhyme schemes is the way lines work together to form poems. O o o o o- 10 syllables, 5 feet (pentameter) of weak-strong beats (lamb) Performance: pauses (caesuras), enjambment (enjambed lines), endstopped lines, volume, stress, pitch, nonverbal actions and movement if performed for an audience. Read silently- read aloud- perform- note structure and style (sonnet, hip hop, formal, colloguial)- Paraphrase the meaning of the poem- look up all unknown or puzzling words in the oed- Importance of time in the sonnet (ends of being- sun and candlelight)
