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    Sonnet II 2 HW Activity

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    This sonnet addresses a young man and encourages him to have children in order to preserve his beauty even after he grows old. It argues that through procreation, a person can see their beauty and bloodline continue on in their offspring. The sonnet uses iambic pentameter, the meter of human heartbeats, to convey the theme of bringing new life into the world through reproduction.

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    This sonnet addresses a young man and encourages him to have children in order to preserve his beauty even after he grows old. It argues that through procreation, a person can see their beauty and bloodline continue on in their offspring. The sonnet uses iambic pentameter, the meter of human heartbeats, to convey the theme of bringing new life into the world through reproduction.

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    Sonnet

    II by William Shakespeare

    When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,


    And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,
    Why youth’s proud livery so gazed on now,
    Will be a totter’d weed of small worth held:
    Then being asked, where all thy beauty lies,
    Where all the treasure of thy lusty days;
    To say, within thine own deep sunken eyes,
    Were an all-eating shame, and thriftless praise.
    How much more praise deserv’d thy beauty’s use,
    If thou couldst answer ‘This fair child of mine
    Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,’
    Proving his beauty by succession thine!
    This were to be new made when thou art old,
    And see thy blood warm when thou feel’st it cold.


    PART I. – Reading and Analyzing
    Go through the Poetry Process: 1) Read; 2) Define; 3) Hear; 4) Re-read; 5) Analyze / Consult an Expert
    1) Read and annotate the poem.
    2) Once you have read the poem once, go back and define the words that you don’t know. Add
    them to the chart below:
    Word from Sonnet Meaning
    1 besiege Surround, capture, force
    surrender
    2 Thy Your
    3 Livery A special uniform worn by a
    servant, an official, or a member
    of a City Company

    4 Totter’d Move in a feeble or unsteady way

    5 Thine Your
    6 Thriftless (of a person or their behavior)
    spending money in an
    extravagant and wasteful way.

    7 Thou You; your

    3) Hear the sonnet by watching the video in the folder for today’s class (4 March).
    4) Re-read with your new understanding of the sonnet and answer the questions below:
    A) To whom is this sonnet addressed? You should know based on the introductory lesson to
    Shakespeare and the information about the numbering of Sonnets.

    This sonnet is dedicated to the young man or “fair youth”

    B) Which of the major Shakespearean themes does this sonnet convey?


    The first 27 of Shakespeare’s sonnets urges the fair youth to marry and have kids. The main
    theme of this sonnet is procreation.

    C) What is the main claim of this sonnet?
    The poem’s main claim is that a person’s beauty continues through procreation.
    D) Based on today’s lesson, how might IAMBIC PENTAMETER help to support this theme / main
    claim?
    The use of Iambic Pentameter in Shakespeare’s sonnets is believed to originate from the
    human heart. By reproducing and having kids, people are bringing new life, a new organism
    to the world.

    NOTE: Submit your work from PART 1 (vocabulary and answers) to SCHOOLOGY as a PDF document.

    We will review this in the NEXT CLASS.


    Part II. Reading a Sonnet Emphasizing IAMBIC PENTAMETER
    Record yourself reading Sonnet II. In particular, we want to hear YOU emphasize the IAMBIC
    PENTAMETER present in this sonnet. Upload this to the same Schoology assignment, but as SUMBISSION
    2. If you can’t record directly within Schoology, upload an MP3 (or M4A or any other file that streams
    within Schoology).

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