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Icona iDevice Structure and style
1) Classify the rhyme scheme and the organization of the sonnet
2) Considering the use of punctuation, where do you think the turning point lies?

 

3) What is the theme of this sonnet?
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Read the paragraph below and fill in the missing words.


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The Sonnets

Shakespeare’s sonnets were published in 1609, although they were probably written in the 1590s.
The collection includes a sonnets in decasyllables made up of three and a rhyming Skakespeare did not use the or French form , that is an plus a instead , he employed three quatrains and a final couplet. However, the development of the argument in many of his sonnets follows the “two-poem” structure of the Petrarchan form, since there is a point in thought at the line.
  

Icona iDevice Answer the questions

1) What form of sonnet did Shakespeare use?

2) Who were the sonnets addressed to?

3) What themes did they convey?
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Some literary critics suggest a link between lines 1-5 of sonnet 98 and Chaucer's introduction to The Canterbury Tales,

When April with his showers sweet with fruit
The drought of March has pierced unto the root
And bathed each vein with liquor that has power
To generate therein and sire the flower;
When Zephyr also has, with his sweet breath,
Quickened again, in every holt and heath,
The tender shoots and buds, and the young sun
Into the Ram one half his course has run,
And many little birds make melody
That sleep through all the night with open eye
Briefly compare the lines expressing the different attitude of the poets

Arcimboldo: la Primavera (1573, Louvre)
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The song Spring is structured in two parts introduced by "When" Summarize briefly what the two parts say and discuss the general meaning
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