Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 - classical poetry

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Shakespeare's sonnet 18

1. Personification - death is given human form. Can you find the line? If so write it down. What is the poet saying about the power of 'Death'?

2. With your peers or family, discuss this poem. What does it mean? Does it mean that love is permanent? Why?

Resource 2

Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 - There are fourteen lines in a Shakespearean sonnet. The first twelve lines are divided into three quatrains with four lines each. In the three quatrains the poet establishes a theme or problem and then resolves it in the final two lines, called the couplet.

The rhyme scheme of the quatrains is abab cdcd efef

See Resource 2, print it or copy and place it in your anthology of poetry.

Resource 3

A parody of Shakespeare's Sonnet.

Is this clever?

Can you create one? 

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ANTHOLOGY

So far you should have a record of all the work completed in the poetry unit.

Humpty Dumpty - with your added stanza/s

Jabberwocky - with words changed and illustrated

Haiku poems

Diamante poems 

Use and understanding of :

1. Alliteration

2. Simile

3. Metaphor 

The Sea by James Reeves and your work on this

The Highwayman and your work on this

William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 and your work on this. 

 

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Resource 1

Shakespeare's sonnet 18

1. Personification - death is given human form. Can you find the line? If so write it down. What is the poet saying about the power of 'Death'?

2. With your peers and teacher, discuss this poem. What does it mean? Does it mean that love is permanent? Why?

Resource 2

Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 - There are fourteen lines in a Shakespearean sonnet. The first twelve lines are divided into three quatrains with four lines each. In the three quatrains the poet establishes a theme or problem and then resolves it in the final two lines, called the couplet.

The rhyme scheme of the quatrains is abab cdcd efef

See Resource 2, print it or copy and place it in your anthology of poetry.

Resource 3

A parody of Shakespeare's Sonnet.

Is this clever?

Can you create one? 

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