HOMEWORK CHECK

Your homework was to complete the dialogue translation worksheet you received Friday.

It is due today.Please take out your homework

and be seated quietly.We’re going to go over your homework together in class.

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First, think about the question and jot down notes about your answer. (5 minutes)

Next, get in pairs and groups of threes with the people who sit beside you and talk about what you wrote down. (5 minutes)

Finally, we’ll regroup as a class and share what you came up with together.

Warm Up, Monday, November 3

Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets, or poems, in his lifetime, and they are still considered to be some of the most beautiful pieces of poetry today. Why do you think what he wrote is still so popular?

SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETSRomeo and Juliet

SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS

80% of the poems Shakespeare wrote are written in blank verse (metered – or sound like a poem, without rhyming).

William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets in his lifetime.

There are three famous sonnets in Romeo and Juliet.

WHAT EXACTLY IS A SONNET? The Prologue to Romeo and Juliet is

one of three sonnets found in the play.

Chorus.

Two households, both alike in dignity,In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;

Whose misadventured piteous overthrowsDo with their death bury their parents’ strife.

The fearful passage of their death-marked love,And the continuance of their parents’ rage,

Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove,Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;

The which if you with patient ears attend,What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

WHAT MAKES A SONNET… A SONNET?

Sonnets are 14 line poems.

Sonnets have definite rhythm and rhyming patterns.

SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETSRhyming Pattern

ENGLISH SONNET RHYMING PATTERN

ABABCDCDEFEFGG

ENGLISH SONNET RHYMING PATTERN Line 1: A Two households, both

alike in dignity, Line 2: B Line 3: A From ancient grudge

break to new mutiny, Line 4: B Line 5: C From forth the fatal loins

of these two foes, Line 6: D Line 7: C Whose misadventured

piteous overthrows Line 8: D Line 9: E The fearful passage of

their death-marked love, Line 10: F Line 11: E Which, but their

children’s end, naught could remove,

Line 12: F Line 13: G Line 14: G

Line 1: A Line 2: B In fair Verona, where we

lay our scene, Line 3: A Line 4: B Where civil blood makes

civil hands unclean. Line 5: C Line 6: D A pair of star-crossed

lovers take their life; Line 7: C Line 8: D Do with their death bury

their parents’ strife. Line 9: E Line 10: F And the continuance of

their parents’ rage, Line 11: E Line 12: F Is now the two hours’

traffic or our stage; Line 13: G Line 14: G

ENGLISH SONNET RHYMING PATTERN

There is always a couplet at the end of any kind of sonnet.

A couplet consists of two lines in the same meter that rhyme, back-to-back.

Chorus.

Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows

Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.

The fearful passage of their death-marked love,

And the continuance of their parents’ rage,

Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove,

Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;

The which if you with patient ears attend,What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Couplet

SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETSRhythm Patterns

ENGLISH SONNET RHYTHM PATTERN

In Shakespeare’s sonnets there are 10 syllables per line.

Let’s look at the first two lines of the third sonnet in Romeo and Juliet, the Chorus lines at the beginning of Act II.

Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,

And young affection gapes to be his heir;

Count the syllables in each line.

ENGLISH SONNET RHYTHM PATTERN

Shakespeare’s sonnets are spoken using a rhythm pattern called “iambic pentameter”.

That means every other syllable is stressed in a sing-song way.

Example:

Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie.

ENGLISH SONNET RHYTHM PATTERN

Now you try:

And young affection gapes to be his heir

That fair for which love ground for and would

die

ENGLISH SONNET RHYTHM PATTERN

With tender Juliet matched, is now not fair.

Now Romeo is beloved and loves again,

Alike bewitched by the charm of looks;

But to his foe supposed he must complain,

And she steal love’s sweet bait from fearful hooks.

SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETSCouplet Writing

NOW IT’S YOUR TURN

First, write a line that could be in a sonnet. Remember, it should have 10 syllables.

Count them out on your fingers! Next, write a second line, (also with 10

syllables), that rhymes with your first line. Now you have a couplet!

You will be asked to share some of your couplets aloud in class, so be appropriate!

You’ve got 5 minutes to write your couplet.

SONNET TRANSLATIONRomeo and Juliet, Act I Scene 5

ACT I, SCENE 5 SONNET TRANSLATION If I profane with my

unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the

gentle sin is this: My lips, two

blushing pilgrims, ready stand

To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

If I get you dirty with my hand that doesn’t deserve you

Your hand is like a holy place, and this will be what I do for you:

My lips are like two worshippers, ready to kiss your hand

Smooth the roughness of your hand with a gentle kiss

ACT I, SCENE 5 SONNET TRANSLATION Good pilgrim, you do

wrong your hand too much,

Which mannerly devotion shows in this;

For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,

And palm to palm is holy palmers kiss.

Worshipper, there’s nothing wrong with your hand

You’re showing proper attention by holding my hand

Because saints have hands and worshippers touch them

And when they touch palms it’s like a holy kiss

ACT I, SCENE 5 SONNET TRANSLATION Have not saints lips,

and holy palmers too?

Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do!

They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

Don’t both saints and their worshippers have lips?

Yes, worshipper, but lips they use in prayer

Then, holy Juliet, let our lips touch the way hands do

Let our lips touch in prayer, please, unless your faith in holiness has turned to sadness

ACT I, SCENE 5 SONNET TRANSLATION

Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.

Then move not while my prayer’s effect I take.

But saints don’t move, unless they’re praying

Then don’t move while I kiss you