Monday, January 01, 2024

SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMERS DAY

Students will Read "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"

(Page 6 packet; 868 in text)
(read once for meaning and once to hear Iambic Pentameter)
Terms: Metaphor; Rhyme Scheme of a SS Sonnet; Iambic Pentameter

1. As in a Shakespearean sonnet, The first 8 (Octet) lines present a problem or issue and the last 6 (Sestet) have a solution or outcome.
To what is the speaker comparing the subject of the poem?
2. What does the speaker say shall not fade?
3. What does the speaker say Death shall not do?
4. To whom is the poet speaking?
5. To what does "The eye of heaven" refer?
6. To what does the world THIS in the last line refer?
7. In comparison, does the beloved fare better or worse than a summer's day?  Give a detail to support your opinion.
8. What makes the beloved immortal?

9. Find a metaphor
10. What is the rhyme scheme
11. figurative and Literal meanings
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V. Shakespeare used by modern artists

Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjPc8RVJ0Dc

http://bhscomp1.blogspot.com/2018/01/song-lyrics.html

In pairs, find similar phrasing, figurative and literal meanings.
Compare/ contrast the way both artists present the subject matter (problem/ solution)


11.A.2.4.1 Identify main ideas and supporting details from the text
11.B.2.1.1 Interpret personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, satire imagery, foreshadowing and irony

11.A.2.4.1 Identify main ideas and supporting details from the text
11.B.2.1.1 Interpret personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, satire imagery, foreshadowing and irony 

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