In the two poems each of the poets have different rhyme schemes. For example Shakespeare has an, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, rhyme scheme. Then Spencer has an, ABAB BCBC CDCD EE, rhyme scheme. In my perspective it looks as if Shakespeare has more words to say to express his poem, while Spencer just kind of uses the basics and sticks to a more constant sound. I prefer the poem that Spencer wrote, because you won't have to to worry about changing the sound of the poem that much. While Shakespeare you'll have to do the opposite. Plus Spencer's poem seems more easier to understand in my point of view.
2. The rhyme scheme divides sonnets into four sections. The first section is a question asked from one point of view, the second is the same question asked from another point of view. The third section is called the turn. The turn is a shift in focus or the thoughts of the first two points of view. The last section is the conclusion. Use this method to explain the message in each of the four sections of the two poems above.
In Shakespeare the question that's being asked is "Shall I compare thee to a summers day?" That's the first question that he ask, and he's looking at it in his perspective. the second section explains the same question, he's asking "By chance, or nature changing course untrimmed." here he's thinking that nature has made a mistake or is kind of backwards, basically trying to say that it looks, feels, and shines like a summer day.in the third section his turn, happens to be that he don't want the Summer impression to go away, he wants everything to stay the same and not loose ends. The fourth section talks about how he's finally made a conclusion that as long as you breathe and can see the nature changing, then eventually you'll live long enough.
In Spencer's poem, the question that's being asked is "How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,but harder grows the more I her entreat?"
here Spencer is asking why does the person that he loves, doesn't like him, and that each day he sees her, he falls more and more in love. In the second section he's asking the same thing, "Or how comes it that my exceeding heat Is not delayed by her heart frozen cold,But that I burn much more in boiling sweat, And feel my flames augmented manifold?He's saying why does she not react the same way he does when he sees her? The third section is taking a turn and is comparing ice to fire, he's saying that she should melt or want him like ice melting from the fire, him being the ice and her at his every command. Then finally the fourth section he concludes that it'll happen one day, but who knows when she'll come around and any day it can happen.
3. Choose one more of Shakespeare's sonnets as well as another one of Spencer's sonnets. You can find these all over the Internet. Post each poem on your blog then: a. Label the rhyme scheme like my examples; b. explain the message in each of the four sections like you did in question #2.
Shakespeare:
How careful was I, when I took my way, A
Each trifle under truest bars to thrust, B
That to my use it might unused stay A
From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust! B
But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are, C
Most worthy of comfort, now my greatest grief, D
Thou, best of dearest and mine only care, C
Art left the prey of every vulgar thief. D
Thee have I not lock'd up in any chest, E
Save where thou art not, though I feel thou art, F
Within the gentle closure of my breast, E
From whence at pleasure thou mayst come and part; F
And even thence thou wilt be stol'n, I fear, G
For truth proves thievish for a prize so dear. G
- In the first section of the Sonnet the question is "How careful was I, when I took my way?" so basically he's asking and telling people how careful he was when he took his way. Then in the second section he's saying the same thing, but he's wondering where his jewels will go after his journey. Then in the third section his turning point is how he wants to keep his jewels locked up in any one's chest, meaning he don't care where they go now. Then the fourth section the conclusion he's saying that even if his jewels will be stolen, the truth will come out in the end eventually. He'd rather give them away instead for them to be tooken without consent.
Spencer:
One day I wrote her name upon the stand, A
But came the waves and washed it away: B
Then I wrote it with a second hand, A
But came the tyde, and made my paynes his pray. B
"Vayne man," sayd she, "that doest in vaine assay, B
A mortall thing so to immortalize, C
or I my selve shall lyke to this decay, B
And eek my name bee wiped out lykewize." C
"Not so," quod I, "let baser things devize C
To dy in dust, but you shall live in fame: D
y verses your virtues rare shall eternize, C
And in heavens wryte your glorious name. D
Where when as death shall all the world subdew, E
Our love shall live, and later life renew. E
- In the first section of this sonnet Spencer does not ask a question he's telling us what happened to the name he wrote in the sand, basically it just washed away. In the second section the girl wants her name to wiped away, so she does not show any remorse about it. In the third section the girl actually wants her name to be written, so she takes a turn and her name seems to be more appealing then she thought. Finally in the last section he concludes that their love is eternal and a name can be written over and over again, so its not wiped out, or loss.
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