Today we talked about sonnets. We looked at some of Shakespeare's sonnets on love. And how they are compromised of fourteen lines. How there are three body parts of four sentences and two closing sentences. We looked sonnet 130 specifically and how Shakespeare paints a picture of his love for this imperfect woman and he loves her even more because of these imperfections.
Speaking on an imperfect woman, we also looked at Harryette Mullen's Dim Lady. We also discussed how the standards of beauty in society. We also, discussed how Mullen worded her poem using slang, and how her love poem differs from Shakespeares. We looked at some of Ted Berrigan's sonnets. We all seemed to get different things from his sonnets, like love, lust, seasons, death, confusion. We all learned that he wrote his sonnets then cut them up and rearranged them to make new sonnets, which I find really creative.
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