Sonnets & its kinds

Everything you need to know about sonnets

1. SONNETS & ITS KINDS

2. SONNETS AND ITS KINDS What is a sonnet? Sonnet – came from Italian word “ sonnetto ” which means “little song.” - It is a lyric poem consists of fourteen lines written in iambic pentameter.

3. Who is William Shakespeare? William Shakespeare (1564-1616) – He is the greatest English poet and playwright of all time. - He was a man and artist from Stratford-upon-Avon who became and actor, poet, and playwright in London from 1592 to 1616.

4. GREATEST LITERARY WORKS: Comedies: “As You Like It” “The Tempest” “Twelfth Night” Tragedies “ Hamlet” “King Lear” “Romeo and Juliet” “Othello” “Macbeth” “Anthony and Cleopatra”

5. 2 KINDS OF SONNET: 1.) “PETRARCHAN” or ITALIAN SONNET – it was introduced by Sir Thomas Wyatt during the Renaissance Period. It was named after a famous 14 th century Italian poet, Francesco Petrarch . - it consists of two parts: the octave ( the first eight lines, the part that raises the question or problem ) and the sestet ( the last six lines, the solution or answer to the octave .)

6. 2.) “ELIZABETHAN” or SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET – it is composed of three quatrains and the last two rhyming lines or couplet . The first quatrain ( a verse with four lines ) presents a proposition, the second repeats and explain the first , and the third is another repetition or a contrast . The couplet ( a verse of two rhyming lines ) immortalizes truth or literary beauty .

7. SONNET 18 a Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? b Thou are more lovely and more temperate: a Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, b And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: c Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, d And often is his gold complexion dimm’d ; c And every fair from fair sometime declines, d By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d ; e But thy eternal summer shall not fade, f Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st ; e Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, f When in eternal lines to time thou gow’st ; g So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, g So long lives this and this gives life to thee.