LOVE PUZZLE

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Guess what?!....
It sometimes comes as a slab
And sometimes comes as a chip
And sometimes it is a bar
Or fondue in which to dip

These flowers can be yellow

And sometimes orange, pink or white
But when it’s Valentines day
Giving a red one is the most right

A red drum which sounds without being touched and grows silent when it is
touched; it hurts when it breaks and if it stops, you are dead.

What costs nothing but is worth everything, weighs nothing but lasts a
lifetime, that one person can’t own but two can share?

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Chocolate Roses
Heart Love

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Shakespearean
Sonnets
The Facets of Love

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William Shakespeare

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 What is a sonnet?
Iambic what?

• A sonnet came from an Oh dear, this is

going to be a
Italian word that means weird lesson!
“little song”
-a lyric poem consists of
fourteen lines, commonly
written in iambic
pentameter

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ELIZABETHAN/SHAKESPEAREAN
SONNET- is composed of three quatrains and
the last two rhyming lines or couplet. The first
quatrain (a verse with four lines) presents a
proposition, the second repeats and explains the
first, and the third is another repetition or a
contrast. The couplet (a verse of two rhyming
lines) immortalizes truth or literary beauty.

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 Iambic Pentameter
• Iambic Pentameter is the rhythm and metre in
which poets and playwrights wrote in Elizabethan
England. It is a metre that Shakespeare uses.

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Heartbeat.
• Quite simply, it sounds
like this: dee DUM, dee
DUM, dee DUM, dee
DUM, dee DUM. It
consists of a line of five
iambic feet, ten syllables
with five unstressed and
five stressed syllables. It
is the first and last sound
we ever hear, it is the
rhythm of the human
heart beat.
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 Pentameter?
• Well an ‘iamb’ is ‘dee Dum’ – it is the heart beat.

• Penta is from the Greek for five.

• Meter is really the pattern

• So, there are five iambs per line!

• (Iambic penta meter )

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• It is percussive and
attractive to the ear and
has an effect on the
listener's central nervous
system. An Example of
Pentameter from
Shakespeare: but SOFT
what LIGHT through
YONder WINdow
BREAKS

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 Syllables
• What is a syllable?

• Well, there are three syllables (separate sounds) in

the word syllable!

• “But soft, what light through yonder window

breaks.”
• How many syllables are there in that quotation?
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• “But soft, what light through yonder window
breaks.”
• Write this down and underline the stressed words.
If you cannot remember, go back to slide 5.

• This rhythm is iambic pentameter!

• Well done!

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 Back to sonnets.
• Well, it is a poetic form.

• But it has a certain structure as well as a rhyming

pattern.

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 Rhyming Patterns
• The Shakespearean sonnet has three quatrains
followed by a couplet, the scheme being: abab
cdcd efef gg.

• More head scratching?

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 Quatrain?
• Quatrains are four line stanzas of any kind

• I have divided the following sonnet into the three

quatrains.
• You will also see the rhyming pattern
• marked out for you.

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Let’s Unlock the
Meaning of Words

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- He is temperate in his habits.

- The town’s economy declines after many

factories closed down.

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Vocabulary Notes # 3.1
1. temperate - relating to or denoting a region or climate
characterized by mild temperatures.
“something that is constant”
2. declines - (typically of something regarded as good)
become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease
“every fair will lose its beauty as time passes”

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- You're a disgrace to the profession.

- Lend me a fool's heart and a woman's eyes, and I'll beweep

these comforts.

- The lieutenant tried the handle again, but still his efforts
were quite bootless.

- Despising the lives of his soldiers as much as he exposed his

own, it was always by persevering efforts and great
sacrifices that he obtained victory.

- Betsy remained sullen through the week until Thursday

night when I came home to find her in tears.
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Vocabulary Notes # 3.2
3. disgrace - loss of reputation or respect as the result of a
dishonorable action
4. beweep - to weep over : lament
5. bootless - (of a task or undertaking) ineffectual; useless
6. despising – feel contempt or a deep repugnance for
7. sullen – bad tempered and sulky; gloomy

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- He was satisfied there was no legal
impediment to the marriage.
- An old sickle mower and rake with their high
metal seats were the only items she
recognized.
- He was served with a writ.

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Vocabulary Notes # 3.3
8. impediments – a hindrance or obstruction in doing
something
9. sickle - a short-handled farming tool with a semicircular
blade, used for cutting grain, lopping, or
trimming.
“something that cuts…”
10. writ – a form of written command in the name of a
court or other legal authority to act, or
abstain from acting, in some way

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 Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose thy possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Dath brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When eternal lines to time thoug growest:
So long as men breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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 What does it mean?
Shall I compare you to a summer’s day?
You are more lovely and more constant:
Rough winds shake the beloved buds of May
And summer is far too short:
At times the sun is too hot,
Or often goes behind the clouds;
And everything beautiful sometime will lose its beauty,
By misfortune or by nature’s planned out course.
But your youth shall not fade,
Nor will you lose the beauty that you possess;
Nor will death claim you for his own
Because in my eternal verse you will live forever.
So long as there are people on this earth,
So long will this poem live on making you immortal.
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 Sonnet 29
When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
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 What does it mean?
When I feel unlucky and as if no one likes me
And I feel all alone and cry
And it’s as if my prayers to heaven have no power at all
because no one is listening
And I feel sorry for myself and think that I’m the unluckiest
person alive
I wish that I had that person’s opportunities
That I looked like that cute person and was as popular as the
most popular person in the world
Wishing that I had that man’s talent, and that man’s
understanding of difficult concepts
Not all happy with the things I usually enjoy.

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Even then, almost hating myself for thinking this way
Perhaps my thoughts think about you
Just like the lark that sings at the moment the light of day
Breaks over the cold earth, sings a song filled with joy and
light
Because I remember the sweet love we share, and the richness
that it brings
And, at the point, remembering what we have together, I
wouldn’t change my present condition even with a king.

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 Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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 What does it mean?
Let me not declare any reasons why two
True-minded people should not be married. Love is not love
Which changes when it finds a change in circumstances,
Or bends from its firm stand even when a lover is unfaithful:
Oh no! it is a lighthouse
That sees storms but it never shaken;
Love is the guiding north star to every lost ship,
Whose value cannot be calculated, although its altitude can be
measured.
Love is not at the mercy of Time, though physical beauty
Comes within the compass of his sickle.
Love does not alter with hours and weeks,
But, rather, it endures until the last day of life.
If I am proved wrong about these thoughts on love
Then I recant all that I have written, and no man has ever
[truly] loved.
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Let’s discuss…

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1. In Sonnet 18, what makes a summer day beautiful?
2. Why is the poet’s beloved better than a summer’s day?
3. In Sonnet 29, how does the poet feel? Why?
4. What changes his mood?
5. In Sonnet 116, what are the characteristics of true love?
6. Some say that making a loved one jealous increases
love. Do you agree with this statement?
7. What can cause a quarrel between two persons who are
in love?
8. Can one come to love a friend better than one’s own
brother or sister? Under what circumstances?
9. Envy is a poison to a man’s heart. In what way does
love overcome envy?

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Facets of Love…

If you were to sum up the message

of love from each sonnet by
writing a quote, what would it be
and why?

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“SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER’S DAY”

Sonnet 18
- This sonnet talks about a man who praises his
beloved's beauty and describes all the ways in
which their beauty is preferable to a summer day.
The stability of love and its power to immortalize
someone is the overarching theme of this poem

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 “WHEN IN DISGRACE WITH FORTUNE AND
MEN’S EYES”

Sonnet 29
- This sonnet talks about a man who feels
depressed and thinks of something that he can
take pride for himself- people who love and care
for you or someone who has given you reason to
live at we know of today

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 “LET ME NOT BY THE MARRIAGE OF TRUE
MINDS”

Sonnet 116
- This sonnet attempts to define love, by
telling both what it is and is not. In the first
quatrain, the speaker says that love—”the
marriage of true minds”—is perfect and
unchanging; it does not “admit impediments,”
and it does not change when it find changes in
the loved one.

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