ELIT 11

Introduction to Poetry

Ken Weisner

July 25, 2002

CLOSED FORMS: SONNET SYMPOSIUM

Groups: Present your sonnet by going over the following:

--Rhyme Scheme on board.

--Meter?

--What type of sonnet?

--Paraphrase.

--Turn? Where?

--Voice, Tone?

--How do you interpret the poem, and why*? (Theme)

*(Provide evidence rooted in poem's language)

--Any important or striking figures?

--Important choice of diction?

--Important use of sound, rhyme?

--What do you like or admire about the sonnet? Be specific.

--In what way does the sonnet invite discussion? Ask us a provocative question

about the sonnet.

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Kim Addonizio, “First Poem for You,” p. 225

Edna St. V. Millay, “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,” p. 224

John Keats, “When I have fears that I may cease to be,” p. 481

Michael Drayton, “Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part,” p. 223

R.S. Gwynn, “Scenes from the Playroom,” p. 226

Wilfred Owen, “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” p. 500

William Shakespeare, “That time of year thou mayst in me behold,” p. 517

William Shakespeare, “When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,” p. 517

William Shakespeare, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun,” p. 361

Theodore Roethke, “The Waking,” (handout)

Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art,” p. 363

Elizabeth Bishop, “Sestina,” p. 233