This sonnet describes moments after dreaming of being with one's beloved. When waking from these dreams, the speaker is filled with fascination as they remember the rare beauty of their beloved's eyes, mouth, and smile which once brought them wisdom and comfort. However, upon waking to the truth and turning from the tremendous lie of sleep, the speaker watches as the roses of the day grow deeper in color, a metaphor for moving further from the dream and closer to reality without their beloved.
2. Drayton’s Sonnet 1
Into these Loves who but for Passion looks,
At this first sight here let him lay them by
And seek elsewhere, in turning other books,
Which better may his labor satisfy.
No far-fetched sigh shall ever wound my breast,
Love from mine eye a tear shall never wring,
Nor in Ah me's my whining sonnets drest;
A libertine, fantasticly I sing.
My verse is the true image of my mind,
Ever in motion, still desiring change,
And as thus to variety inclined,
So in all humours sportively I range.
My Muse is rightly of the English strain,
That cannot long one fashion entertain.
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3. • The sonnet usually presents a problem or
lament in the first sets(8)of lines and the last 6
lines resolve it or ask other questions.
• They are not all love poems, they can be
about life in general, about something funny
that makes you laugh or some big question
you are thinking about.
4. Rules of the Sonnet
• A sonnet is a poem in 14 lines.
• There are different forms of sonnets, but the
traditional forms are the Spanish and the English
sonnet.
• The Spanish sonnet uses the a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a
rhyme pattern for the first two quatrains. For the
sestet(last 6 lines) there are two different
possibilities: c-d-e-c-d-e and c-d-c-c-d-c.
• The rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, gg in
English Sonnets; the Spenserian sonnet is
abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee.
5. Shakespeare’s 5th Sonnet
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow,
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,
Thy 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 This
Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,' sonnet is
Proving his beauty by succession thine! in
This were to be new made when thou art old, abab, cdcd
And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold. , efef, gg
rhyme
scheme!
6. A Modern Sonnet
The Carpenter This sonnet is in
by Kim Bridgford
To be raised by one who built things was a gift.
To be raised by one who saw that out of air
the
A room was made, or pieces of a chair.
The world was known by measurement and heft.
abba, ccdd, eeff,
As he grew up, he learned the way to touch, gg rhyme
As if the world held secrets in its clutch,
Which he would then reveal. He grew to see scheme
That in the commonplace there's mystery.
A tree would speak of unbuilt shapes within it
The way that Jesus knew the infinite.
He worked in words, and handled them like wood,
Creating lasting work that he called good.
He shaped the clouds into his father's face
For those who had before seen only space.
7. The Golden Years
All I do these drawn-out days
is sit in my kitchen at Pheasant Ridge
where there are no pheasant to be seen
and last time I looked, no ridge.
I could drive over to Quail Falls
and spend the day there playing bridge,
but the lack of a falls and the absence of quail
would just remind me of Pheasant Ridge.
I know a widow at Fox Run
and another with a condo at Smokey Ledge.
One of them smokes, and neither can run,
so I'll stick to the pledge I made to Midge.
Who frightened the fox and bulldozed the ledge?
I ask in my kitchen at Pheasant Ridge.
8. Into My Own
Robert Frost Sonnet
One of my wishes is that those dark trees,
So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom,
But stretched away unto the edge of doom.
I should not be withheld but that some day
Into their vastness I should steal away,
Fearless of ever finding open land,
Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.
I do not see why I should e'er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
Rhyme scheme:
To overtake me, who should miss me here aabb, ccdd, eeff,
And long to know if still I held them dear. gg
They would not find me changed from him they knew—
Only more sure of all I thought was true.
9. Browning Sonnet 14
If thou must love me, let it be for nought This sonnet uses
Except for love's sake only. Do not say the more Italian
"I love her for her smile--her look--her way
Of speaking gently,--for a trick of thought rhyme scheme…
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought abba, bccb, dede
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day"—
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may de
Be changed, or change for thee,--and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,
-- A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
10. Sonnets--Unrealities. III.
e e cummings
it is at moments after i have dreamed
of the rare entertainment of your eyes, Cummings
when (being fool to fancy) i have deemed
with your peculiar mouth my heart made wise; uses the
at moments when the glassy darkness holds normal
the genuine apparition of your smile abab,cdcd, efe
(it was through tears always) and silence moulds f, gg rhyme
such strangeness as was mine a little while;
moments when my once more illustrious arms scheme, but
are filled with fascination, when my breast he doesn’t
wears the intolerant brightness of your charms:
one pierced moment whiter than the rest
follow the
--turning from the tremendous lie of sleep usual sonnet
i watch the roses of the day grow deep. form.
