Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Wednesday 14 September Shakespeare intro/ sonnet 29







Turn in your ActI.i. responses.

Hamlet vocabulary quiz tomorrow (Thursday)


In class material: introduction of Hamlet and Shakespeare background Power Point.




Sonnet 29: paraphrase.


copy of handout below.




Sonnet 29




When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,




I all alone beweep my outcast state,




And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,




And look upon myself and curse my fate,




Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,




Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,




Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,




With what I most enjoy contented least,




Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,




Haply I think on thee, and then my state,Like to the lark at break of day arising




From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate.




For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,




That then I scorn to change my state with kings.




















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