ATTENTION: ALL SCANSION

PROFESSIONALSTASK 1: SPENSERMrs. Leach

Introduction Video• Link

3 Main types of WritersWe will first focus on essayists and poets -- picking up with dramatists last.

To: All Scansion SpecialistsFrom: Queen Elizabeth I

• This is your task, should you choose to accept it. . . (BTW, I would ACCEPT it! Think about what saying “no” to the Queen could mean!)

• Suspect #1: Sir Edmund Spenser• Issue: Was he really a sonnet writer?• Did he follow all the sonnet rules

SUSPECT 1: Edmund SpenserYou will now read from the green lit book

Read page 253 and then delve into “SONNET 1” on page 254. On the next slide, **on your own sheet of paper**IDENTIFY:1. Rhyme Scheme2. Content3. Iambic Pentameter**Share your work and mark the next slide as a class.

Those glasses aren’t fooling anyone Eddy!!!

“Sonnet 1”• Happy ye leaves! When as those lily hands,• Which hold my life in their dead doing might,• Shall handle you, and hold in love's soft bands,• Like captives trembling at the victor's sight.• And happy lines! on which, with starry light,• Those lamping eyes will deign sometimes to look,• And read the sorrows of my dying sprite,• Written with tears in heart's close bleeding book.• And happy rhymes! bathed in the sacred brook• Of Helicon, whence she derived is,• When ye behold that angel's blessed look,• My soul's long lacked food, my heaven's bliss.• Leaves, lines, and rhymes seek her to please alone,• Whom if ye please, I care for other none.

MARK RHYME SCHEME, CONTENT, and IAMBIC PENTAMETER (4 lines)

“Sonnet 1” Questions• Answer each in complete sentences and turn in .

• 1. What is the speaker addressing in Sonnet 1?

• 2. What are the three things the speaker addresses?

• 3. What does the speaker mean by “my soul’s long lacked food”?

• 4. Why would the speaker mention Helicon? What is he trying to say?

Edmund SpenserYou will now read from the green lit book

Read “SONNET 35” on page 254. On the next slide, **on your own sheet of paper**IDENTIFY:1. Rhyme Scheme2. Content3. Iambic Pentameter**Share your work and mark the next slide as a class.

“Sonnet 35”• My hungry eyes, through greedy covetize

Still to behold the obiect of their paine,With no contentment can themselves suffize;But having, pine, and having not, complaine.For lacking it, they cannot lyfe sustayne;And having it, they gaze on it the more,In their amazement lyke Narcissus vaine,Whose eyes him starv'd: so plenty makes me poore.Yet are mine eyes so filled with the storeOf that faire sight, that nothing else they brooke,But lothe the things which they did like before,And can no more endure on them to looke.All this worlds glory seemeth vayne to me,And all their showes but shadowes, saving she.

MARK RHYME SCHEME, CONTENT, and IAMBIC PENTAMETER (4 lines)

“Sonnet 35” Questions• Answer each in complete sentences and turn in .

• 1. What do the speaker’s eyes desire?

• 2. Describe the state that the desire produces in him?

• 3. What does it mean to “covetize”?

• 4. Explain the use of “Narcisssus” to prove his point.

Edmund SpenserYou will now read from the green lit book

Read “SONNET 75” on page 254. On the next slide, **on your own sheet of paper**IDENTIFY:1. Rhyme Scheme2. Content3. Iambic Pentameter**Share your work and mark the next slide as a class.

“Sonnet 75” One day I wrote her name upon the strand,

But came the waves and washed it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she, that doest in vain assay. A mortal thing so to immortalize, For I myself shall like to this decay, And eek my name be wiped out likewise. Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name. Where whenas Death shall all the world subdue, Out love shall live, and later life renew.

MARK RHYME SCHEME, CONTENT, and IAMBIC PENTAMETER (4 lines)

“Sonnet 75” Questions• Answer each in complete sentences and turn in .

• 1. View the following student-made video and explain how Spenser’s poem is still relevant today. VIDEO

• 2. Why does the lady say the speaker’s efforts are futile?

• 3. What connection does the poem make between immortality and poetry?

“The Faerie Queen”• Pass out “The Faerie Queen” worksheet• Read and Answer Questions on a

separate sheet of paper.