POETRY

WARM-UP

Write a short 6-line poem with the rhyme scheme AA,BB,CC like your prologue about something or someone that you love. What feelings does your poem evoke?

Do you like poetry? If so, what kinds do you read? If not, why not? (2 sentences)

THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES. . .

• What caused the fall of the Middle Ages?

AND IT FELL. . .

• From: • The Plague • The Rising Middle Class

TIMES OF CHANGE

• An era doesn’t simply transition from one to the next, but it happens over time.

• Richard the III last king to die in battle. Put in an unmarked grave.

• The Renaissance (rebirth) or the Romantic era (1485-1660)

REDISCOVERING

• Many people rediscovered Latin and Greek • Many had forgotten the Greek language in the

Middle Ages • Form of Latin different • People were discovering books in monasteries for

hundreds of years. • Note: Early books were hand-written

manuscripts. • With the invention of printing press in fifteenth

century by Guttenberg, people has access.

QUESTION

• How did computers change your life? What did/do you use them for?

PRINTING PRESS

• First Bookbible • Inexpensive by 1500

PRINTING PRESS

THE RENAISSANCE

• Rebirth • People concerned about learning. • Renewal of human spirit • History, Art, other subjects • Look at painting on 276.

ITALY

• Italy—trade. • Leonardo Di Vinci • Christopher Columbus • Galileo • Church still rich and powerful!

HUMANISM

• People questioned “What is a human being?”• Renaissance humanists sought to bring church

and roman classic ideals together. • Sought accurate copies and taught.

ERASMUS & SIR THOMAS MORE

• ErasmusDutch monk, lived outside of monestary and traveled • Belonged to all of Europe • Taught Greek at Cambridge • Morelawyer• Both dedicated to the church. • Wrote in Latin • MoreUtopia

REFORMATION

• Rejected authority of Pope • Many different faiths

HENRY VIII

• Wanted to divorce wife and make illegal—Catherine because could not have a son. • King loved Ann Boleyn• Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced Beheaded,

Survived

• Read bottom 283-bottom of 285.

• What would you do if you were Mary?

ELIZABETH THE VIRGIN QUEEN

• Incredibly important • Reunited England • 1558-1603 • Rejected Authority of Pope Established Church of

England • Survived many plots against life—several against

cousin Mary • Look at page 287. • Defeated Spanish Armada 1558

SUCCEEDED

• By James VI of Scottland • Not a terrible ruler; he tried but unsuccessful • Son, Charles I took over—lots of problems • Subjects had him beheaded.

FASHION

• Read 291

• How did the fashion compare to today?

• un (3): i.e., a dull brownish gray.

• roses damasked, red and white (5): This line is possibly an allusion to the rose known as the York and Lancaster variety, which the House of Tudor adopted as its symbol after the War of the Roses. The York and Lancaster rose is red and white streaked, symbolic of the union of the Red Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York. Compare The Taming of the Shrew: "Such war of white and red within her cheeks!" (4.5.32). Shakespeare mentions the damask rose often in his plays. Compare also Twelfth Night:

• She never told her love,• But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,• Feed on her damask cheek. (2.4.118)

THE RIGHT EMPHASIS IN SONNETS

• I put the chair behind the table.

• Absalon kissed Alison’s behind.

• than the breath...reeks (8): i.e., than in the breath that comes out of (reeks from) my mistress.

• As the whole sonnet is a parody of the conventional love sonnets written by Shakespeare's contemporaries, one should think of the most common meaning of reeks, i.e., stinks. Shakespeare uses reeks often in his serious work, which illustrates the modern meaning of the word was common. Compare Macbeth:

• Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds• Or memorise another Golgotha,• I cannot tell. (1.2.44)• rare (13): special.

• she (14): woman.

• belied (14): misrepresented.

• with false compare (14): i.e., by unbelievable, ridiculous comparison

• Wire hairshair nets

SONNET PURPOSE

• Tribute • Parody of a love sonnet! Do you know any

parodies? • Using all of techniques available.