25 Jan Pick one of the sonnets listed below and try to answer the following questions about it
Pick one of the sonnets listed below and try to answer the following questions about it:
• Does it follow the English or Italian sonnet form, some combination of both, or some other form entirely?
• Does it have a “turn”? Where does the turn occur? Does it have more than one turn?
• What other poetic devices we’ve been discussing (e.g., imagery, figurative language, rhyme, rhythm, etc.) stand out in this poem? (Try to identify at least two.)
• How do any of the features just identified contribute to the overall tone, effect, or meaning of the poem?
Sonnets:
1. “Batter my heart, three-personed God” by John Donne
2. “next to of course god america i” by e. e. cummings
3. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” by William Shakespeare
4. “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
5. “Death be Not Proud” by John Donne
6. “The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins
7. “The Harlem Dancer” by Claude McKay
8. “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” by William Shakespeare
9. “The world is too much with us” by William Wordsworth
