ATTENTION: ALL SCANSION

PROFESSIONALSTASK 2: SIDNEYMrs. Leach

To: All Scansion SpecialistsFrom: Queen Elizabeth I

• This is your task, should you choose to accept it. . . (BTW, I would ACCEPT it! Think about what saying “no” to the Queen could mean!)

• Suspect #1: Sir Phillip Sidney• Issue: Was he really a sonnet writer?• Did he follow all the sonnet rules

Sir Philip SidneyYou will now read from the green lit book

Read page 257 and then delve into “SONNET 31” on page 259. On the next slide, **on your own sheet of paper**IDENTIFY:1. Rhyme Scheme (notice how he has varied the scheme!!)2. Content3. Iambic Pentameter**Share your work and mark the next slide as a class.

TAKE OFF THE MASK SID!!!!

“Sonnet 31”

• With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies ! How silently, and with how wan a face ! What, may it be that even in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp arrows tries? Sure, if that long with love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case; I read it in thy looks;  thy languisht grace To me that feel the like, thy state descries. Then, even of fellowship, O Moon, tell me, Is constant love deemed there but want of wit? Are beauties there as proud as here they be? Do they above love to be loved, and yet  Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?  Do they call virtue there, ungratefulness?

MARK RHYME SCHEME, CONTENT, and IAMBIC PENTAMETER (4 lines)

“Sonnet 31” Questions• Answer each in complete sentences and turn in .

• 1. In your opinion, because Sidney has chosen a different rhyme scheme than USUAL, does this mean he has violated the rules or rewritten them?

• 2. How does the moon appear to the speaker?

• 3. How does the speaker reveal his own situation by addressing the moon?

“Sonnet 39”

• Come Sleep; O Sleep! the certain knot of peace,The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,Th' indifferent judge between the high and low;With shield of proof shield me from out the preaseOf those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw:O make in me those civil wars to cease;I will good tribute pay, if thou do so.Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed,A chamber deaf to noise and blind of light,A rosy garland and a weary head;And if these things, as being thine by right,  Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me,  Livelier than elsewhere, Stella's image see.

MARK RHYME SCHEME, CONTENT, and IAMBIC PENTAMETER (4 lines)

“Sonnet 39” Questions• Answer each in complete sentences and turn in .

• 1. What benefits does the speaker attribute to sleep in lines 1-4 of this sonnet?

• 2. What reward does he promise sleep in lines 13-14?

• 3. Judging from his “reward,” why does he crave sleep?