Block Day, January 26-27 ~ Devices Quiz

Memorization

If you can keep your head when all about you   

    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

    But make allowance for their doubting too;   

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,

Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,

    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
   If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
   and treat those two impostors just the same;

Poetic Devices Quiz

• Begin J9 when you complete the quiz.
• I will do journal checks toward the end of class. 

POETRY NOTES~ Sonnet Form

• J9: Sonnet Notes from here~ What is the difference between an Italian vs. a British sonnet? 
• EQ: Can you identify a poetic foot? How about the turn aka volta? 

    We'll start with the Italian, sometimes called Petrarch sonnet...














Here are examples of each kind.... Notice the Iambic Pentameter.

Italian (Petrarch) Form

British (Shakespearean) Form

Journal 10 - Sonnet Practice 
For the poem, write a 1/2 page analysis that includes:
1) Is this sonnet an Italian or British style sonnet?
2) What poetic devices are present (name at least five) and how do they affect the rhythm, mood, or meaning of the poem?
3) Where is the turn and what is the conceptual relationship shown by the structure?

Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud

BY JOHN DONNE

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;

For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow

Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,

Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,

And soonest our best men with thee do go,

Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,

And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,

And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well

And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?

One short sleep past, we wake eternally

And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

Journal 11: Sonnet Practice Solo
On your own...Do the journal again based on a sonnet of your choosing.

• Christina Rossetti
• Robert Frost
• Here are a couple from the beloved Mr. Reno
• and so many more!