Poetry Definition:• The art of rhythmical composition, written

or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.

By: Marie – Eve and Jessica J. Tremblay

Lesson PlanBasically the students will learn how to interpret a poembetter and learn different styles of poems so that theirknowledge is of a wider range. Some things we will include inour lesson are:• A quick biography of John Donne and William Shakespeare• Important poems by John Donne are The Good-Morrow and

The Flea• Important poems by William Shakespeare are The Fairy Song

and Sonnet 130• Also the styles of the poets• And our analysis of some poems

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Timeline• 1564. William Shakespeare is born in Stratford upon Avon to local tanner John and

Mary Shakespeare. His actual birthday is unknown but assumed and celebrated today on April the 23rd, just three days before his baptism was recorded in the Parish register of the Holy Trinity Church on April the 26th.

• 1582. Shakespeare is in love... At age 18, he marries the considerably older Anne Hathaway (26 years old) from Shottery on November the 27th at Temple Grafton, a village just five short miles (8 km) from Stratford.

• 1585-1592. Shakespeare is believed to have left his family in Stratford to join a company of actors as both playwright and performer, starting his career in theatre.

• 1585. Shakespeare’s twins, Judith and Hamnet are born, (February 2)Hamnet living only eleven years while Judith lived 77.

• 1589-1590. Shakespeare is believed by most academics to have written his very first play, Henry VI, Part One in this year.

• 1590-91. Shakespeare is again believed to have written Henry VI, Part Two and Henry VI, Part III.

Shakespeare’s Timeline Continued…

• 1597. Shakespeare buys the New Place, one of Stratford’s most preeminent homes. This fuels speculation today by some academics that William was really a successful businessman and not literature’s celebrated playwright.

• 1600-1601. Shakespeare is thought to have composed arguably his greatest play, Hamlet at this time.

• The return of the plague forces a closure of all playhouses and theatres from the spring of 1608 through to early 1610.

• 1613. The Globe Theatre burns to the ground. • 1614. The Globe Theatre reopens.• 1616. William dies on April 23rd, his burial being recorded in the Stratford

Holy Church Register two days later.• 1623. Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway dies, the same year, and 36 of

Shakespeare’s 37 plays in a collection known as The First Folio.

Sonnet 130 - My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips' red;

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,But no such roses see I in her cheeks;

And in some perfumes is there more delightThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks.

I love to hear her speak, yet well I knowThat music hath a far more pleasing sound;

I grant I never saw a goddess go;My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rareAs any she belied with false compare.

Sonnet 130 – My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun - Analysis

A Fairy Song by William Shakespeare

Over hill, over dale,Thorough bush, thorough brier,

Over park, over pale,Thorough flood, thorough fire!

I do wander everywhere,Swifter than the moon's sphere;

And I serve the Fairy Queen,To dew her orbs upon the green;

The cowslips tall her pensioners be;In their gold coats spots you see;

Those be rubies, fairy favours;In those freckles live their savours;

I must go seek some dewdrops here,And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.

A Fairy Song Analysis

Famous Quotes By William Shakespeare

• "To be, or not to be: that is the question". - Hamlet (Act III, Scene I).

• "Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry". - Hamlet (Act I, Scene III).

• "This above all: to thine own self be true". - Hamlet (Act I, Scene III).

• "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him". - (Act III, Scene II).

"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me". - (Act I, Scene II). • "The course of true love never did run smooth". - (Act I, Scene I).

John Donne(1572 – 1631)

•John Donne is famous for his realistic style which includes sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons.

John Donne Timeline• 1572 Born in Bread Street, London • 1576 Father dies suddenly • 1583 Enters at Hart Hall, University of Oxford - He studies there for three years • 1586 Spends three years at the University of Cambridge, takes no degree

because he refuses to take the Oath of Supremacy• 1591 Admitted to study law as a member of Thavies Inn • 1593 Donne's brother Henry dies of a fever in prison, Donne begins to question

his faith. • 1596 Joins the naval expedition that Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, led

against Cádiz, Spain • 1598 Returns to England and appointed private secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton,

Lord Keeper of the Great Seal • 1601 Secretly marries Lady Egerton's niece, seventeen-year-old Anne More. Her

father, Sir George More has Donne thrown to Fleet Prison for some weeks

John Donne Timeline Continued…• 1607 Divine Poems published • 1610 Pseudo-Martyr and A Funerall Elegie published • 1611 An Anatomy of the World and Ignatius his Conclave published • 1612 Of the Progress of the Soul published • 1614 Cambridge confers the degree of Doctor of Divinity on Donne • 1615 Donne reluctantly enters the ministry and is later appointed Royal Chaplain • 1616 Appointed Reader in Divinity at Lincoln's Inn • 1617 Anne Donne dies 15 August • 1618 Holy Sonnets published • 1618 Journeys as chaplain with Viscount Doncaster in his embassy to the German

princes • 1620 Returns to London • 1621 Appointed Dean of Saint Paul's • 1624 Appointed vicar of St Dunstan's-in-the-West • 1631 Dies in London 31 March

The Flea By John DonneMark but this flea, and mark in this,How little that which thou deny'st me is;It sucked me first, and now sucks thee,And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;Thou know'st that this cannot be saidA sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead;Yet this enjoys before it woo,And pampered swells with one blood made oftwo,And this, alas, is more than we would do.

Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,Where we almost, yea, more than married are.This flea is you and I, and thisOur marriage bed, and marriage temple is;Though parents grudge, and you, w'are met,And cloistered in these living walls of jet.Though use make you apt to kill me,Let not to that, self-murder added be,And sacrilege, three sins in killing three.

Cruel and sudden, hast thou sincePurpled thy nail in blood of innocence?Wherein could this flea guilty be,Except in that drop which it sucked from

thee?Yet thou triumph'st and say'st that thouFind'st not thyself, nor me the weaker now;'Tis true, then learn how false fears be:Just so much honor, when thou yield'st to me,Will waste, as this flea's death took life from

thee.

The Flea Analysis

• Basically the flea had sucked both their blood and now they are one.

• But don’t kill the flea because the flea is almost their marriage.

• This Proves their fears are false that if she yields (gives into him) then she will mean no less honor then when she had killed the flea.

The Good-Morrow by John DonneI wonder, by my troth, what thou and I

Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then,But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.

If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

And now good morrow to our waking souls,Which watch not one another out of fear;For love all love of other sights controls,

And makes one little room an everywhere.Let sea discovers to new worlds have gone,

Let maps to others, worlds on worlds have shown:Let us possess one world; each hath one, and is one.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;

Where can we find two better hemishperes,Without sharp North, without declining West?

Whatever dies was not mixed equally;If our two loves be one, or thou and I

Love so alike that none do slacken, none can die.

Famous Quotes By John Donne• Love, all alike, no season knows, nor

clime,Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.The Sun Rising

• Death be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou art not so.For, those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrowDie not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.Holy Sonnet X

• I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying soIn whining poetry.The Triple Fool

• Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right;By these we reach divinity.Letters: To the Countess of Bedford

• No man is an Island, entire of itself;every man is a piece of the Continent,

a part of the main.Meditation XVII