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LRusso4a- Shakespeare's Sonnets and PLays. Exercises pages 67-68
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Pag 65-66.

COMPREHENSION:

A. 1 dun ----> greyish-brown

     2 Wires ----> long thin pieces of metal

     3 Grant ----> to accept that something is true

     4 Belied ----> to give a false idea of- to describes by lies

B. Your files C3:

 

FEATURES

PETRARCHAN LADY

SHAKESPEAREAN LADY

Eyes

Light

Dark

Lips

Red

Not red

Breats

Bright

Dun

Hiar

Blond

Black wires

Cheeks

Damasked

Not roses

Breath

Perfumed

Reeks

Voice

Musical

Isn't like music

Way of Walking

Walk as a goddless

Treads on the ground

 

C. No he doesn't. He descrive the woman in a humiliating way

D. The rhyme scheme is ABAB, CDCD, EFEF e GG. No it isn't the same because the Petrarchan scheme is ABBA, ABBA, CDC e CDC.

E. I can identify three quatrains and a rhyming couplet

F. Your files C2:

 

SONNET'S FEATURES

PETRARCHAN SONNET

SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET

Structure

Octave + sestet

3 Quatrains + rhyming couplet

Rhyme scheme

Cross rhyme

Alternate rhyme

Themes

It talks about the first time Petrarca saw Laura's eyes and the love of the poet for his love.

It's about his compulsory love. The poet loves an unpleasant woman.

 

INTERPREHENSION:

A. Your files C4:

SENSES

LINES

Touch

/

Sight

1-2-3-4-5-6-11-12

Hearing

9-10

Taste

/

Smell

7-8

 

B. The reader can feel a closer woman, a more realistic woman. He cam image her with his senses.

C. They draw the reader's attention to "my love as rare". Underlying the love of the poet for his dark-skinned and ugly woman.  

D. It refers to an idealized woman. To the representation of courtly love that is unrealistic.

E. I think that in the final couplet Shakespeare wants to underline his love without untruly emphantizing her beauty.

F. I think that the most appropriate interpretation of the sonnet are that:

   - the poet's objective is to ridicule the woman described in the sonnet

   - the poet not only parodies the conventions of love poetry, he also underline that love is dictated from the  

     lover's subjective viewpoint and not by the loved one's objectives qualitives. 

 

 

Pag 69.

SHAKESPEARE AND NERUDA:

How is desire for the loved woman presented here?

 

The poet feels the lack of the lips, the voice, the hair of his love. He looks for the sound of her steps. His mistress has almond skin and bright hands.

The poet wants his love and he looks for her with his sense. He is starring for love and he wants to be fed by the physical aspects of his woman.