Studying Shakespeare
Mrs. Luce's Class
Agenda Tues., March 4, 2008

1. With your team, create a Shakespearean poem with Magnetic Poetry
http://www.magneticpoetry.com/magnet/vmpsh.htm
* One person be the dictionary-guy. Look up words your group does not know so that they can use them in the poem.
* One person be the scribe. Take notes on the words looked up AND write down the poem once it is finished.
* Take turns with the laptop creating each line of the poem; each person should take the lead for at least 1 line of the poem.
* Poems should be 9 lines, make sense and include a couplet.

2. Read Sonnet 130 Below with your group.

SONNET 130
  1. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
  2. Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
  3. If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
  4. If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
  5. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
  6. But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
  7. And in some perfumes is there more delight
  8. Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
  9. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
  10. That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
  11. I grant I never saw a goddess go;
  12. My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
  13. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
  14. As any she belied with false compare.
1st  read the poem and highlight all of the nature imagery. Then discuss which ones are cliches.
2nd read the poem and circle all of the color imagery. Then discuss which colors are used to describe the mistress.
What's your interpretation of the poem? does the speaker of the poem  his mistress is beautiful? Why or why not? Justify your opinion with lines from the poem.