unit 1-renaissance-pt-1

The Renaissance

Pt. 1Shakespeare’s

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?

Course Title: Poetry Course Code & NO.: LANE 447Course Credit Hrs.: 3 weekly Level: 7th Level Students

Instructor: Dr. Noora Al-MalkiCredits of images and online content are to their original owners.

This Presentation

• is divided into two sections (Pt. 1 & Pt. 2); each dealing with a poet who represents the English Renaissance (late 15th C. to early 17th C.)

• introduces the Renaissance era (cultural and literary aspects).

• presents a discussion of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 & Donne’s “The Good Morrow” and “Death Be Not Proud”.

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English Renaissance

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- The Renaissance Originated in Italy (14th C.)-Influences: Greece & Roman Cultures- European Renaissance artists/authors: *Dante wrote The Divine Comedy*Petrarch wrote lyric poetry in the form of sonnets*Leonardo Da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, and scientist

-In England: 15 (end of the War of Roses)-17th Cs. *Philip Sidney wrote the first Elizabethan sonnet cycle: Astrophel and Stella*Edmund Spenser wrote a long epic, The Faerie Queen, in Spenserian stanzas*Christopher Marlowe popularized pastoral verse (idealizes the rural life)- Elizabethan era was the height of English Renaissance .

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/16century/welcome.htm

http://maxweber.hunter.cuny.edu/pub/eres/MUS105.00_DEFORD/RenaissanceIntro.html

English Renaissance

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-Humanism: Mankind was believed capable of earthly perfection. -Optimism: the belief that life was improving for the first time in anyone’s memory-Printing Press-The emergence of the middle Class-Nationalism

Time Line Press this link

English Renaissance

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-Literature (poetry) of the Renaissance focused topics which relate to religion, classic antiquity, scholarship and politics. -Sonnets also became very popular.-Other poetic forms that were popularized were the lyric, the elegy, the tragedy, and the pastoral. -Near the close of the English Renaissance, John Milton composed his epic Paradise Lost, widely considered the grandest poem in the language

http://www.online-literature.com/periods/renaissance.php

Shakespeare

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1564-1616

Elizabethan poet and playwright

38 plays & 154 sonnets

Other PoemsVenus and AdonisThe Rape of LucreceThe Passionate PilgrimThe Phoenix and the TurtleA Lover's Complaint

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Sonnet (little song) – (little sound)Sonneteers (writers of sonnets)

Fixed Form which originated in Europe (Italy)

Conventions of the English Sonnet-14 lines, -4 divisions: three quatrains and a rhymed couplet at the end.-The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g.-The couplet at the end “is usually a commentary on the foregoing, an epigrammatic close”.

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Shakespeare's sonnets are a collection of 154 sonnets, dealing with themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality, first published in a 1609 quarto entitled SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS.

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-154 sonnets (a sonnet cycle)

- Main Figures in the sonnets: 1-Fair Youth (1-126): maybe the Earl of Southampton or the Earl of Pembroke.2-Rival poet (78-86): Maybe C. Marlowe or Chapman3-The Dark Lady (127-152): is apparently the speaker’s mistress [black hair and dusky skin].

-The final two sonnets are allegorical treatments of Greek epigrams referring to the "little love-god" Cupid.

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Herbert, William 3rd earl of Pembroke

Henry Wriothesley 3rd Earl of Southampton

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Christopher Marlowe Rival Poet

George Chapman Rival Poet

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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Sonnet 18Octave

the first 2 quatrains

forms the "proposition," which describes a problem

Sestet The 3rd quatrain

A resolution

Volta {turn} (line 9)

Signifies the movement from

problem to

resolution

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Shall I compare you to a day in summer?You are more beautiful and less harsh:In summer, there are strong winds that shake the flowers,Summer is only with us for a short time:Sometimes the sun is too hot for comfort,Other times it is cloudy and dull;All beautiful things eventually lose their attractiveness,By accident, or through the passing of time, beauty is lost;Your attractiveness will not be lost, however.You won’t lose the loveliness that you have,Even death can’t cast a shadow over your beauty;Your beauty is recorded in print forever:For as long as civilization survives,This poem will keep your memory alive.

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- Sonnet 18 is the best known and most well-loved of all 154 sonnets. -straightforward in language and message- Themes:1-The stability and power of love and its ability to immortalize the beloved2-The power of the speaker’s poem to defy time and last forever, carrying the beauty of the beloved down to future generations

Almutanabi

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عنده وحالي بجسمي ومن شبم قلبه ممن قلباه واحرسقم

الدولة سيف حب وتدعي جسدي برى قد حبا أكتم لي مااألمم

نقتسم الحب بقدر أنا فليت لغرته حب يجمعنا كان إنو إليه نظرت وقد مغمدة الهند سيوف و زرته قد

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1-Title2-Age + Poet’s biography3-Structure- form4-Speaker (persona- Voice)5-Subject (surface meaning, topic)6-Theme (deep meaning)7-Point of view 8-Diction & Figurative language

Short Quiz

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-The English Renaissance had a great impact on the poetry produced during the 16th & 17th Cs. Discuss this statement with reference to Shakespeare and Donne. (400-500 words)

- The Shakespearean sonnet was one of the innovations which Shakespeare introduced into the literature of the Renaissance era. Comment on this statement using “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?” as illustration. (400-500 words)

Questions to consider

Check out these extra resources

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http://faculty.uml.edu/Culturalstudies/Italian_Renaissance/5.htm

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/

Renaissance TheatreEnglish Renaissance Drama - LuminariumShakespeare's Stage - UVictoriaThe Drama and Shakespeare - UVictoriaAncient Rome and The English Renaissance Theatre - John PriceThe Sixteenth Century Court Audience: performers and spectators - Sarah CarpenterLondon's Disreputable South Bank in the 16th and 17th century - Jessica A. Browner [.doc]Centre for Research in Early English Drama (REED) - University of Toronto