Due 8:30AM Mon, Oct 8
Please write a sonnet. Traditionally, sonnets are love poems, but feel free to make your sonnet about kind of love (for a romantic partner, family member, friend, pet, god, etc.). You can choose a completely different subject.
Don't worry about making your poem "good" - that is the job of your genius. Your job is to fulfill the requirements, which are as follows:
1. correct use of iambic pentameter
2. correct use of rhyming
3. use of a poetic structure - beginning, middle, end and volta
4. explanation
Each criteria is worth 2 points (2=mostly correct; 1=partially correct; 0=missing or completely incorrect)
total assignment = 8 points.
After you finish add an explanation of your 3-part structure, rhyming, and "Volta" that you employed.
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I broke my poem up to represent a sort of change in being playful to a more serious and down to earth tone.
ReplyDeleteI used a turn rhyme scheme, trying to do my best when rhyming every other line.
I mostly posted on the fact that i love the leap day because it's a free day but i quickly change mood and turn towards harsh reality.
I broke up my poem to try to show the innocence and then the sudden downfall and painful reality of blind, unrequited, stupid love (think middle-school: no one wants to admit it, but everyone has been there and experienced some sort of stupid, irrational crush in one form or another, and upon the relationship/fantasy-love-life ending, it seemed like the end of the world... the poem is about that sort of mistaken love).
ReplyDeleteMy rhyme scheme was AABCBCBCBCBCDD, having the first two and last two lines rhyme in order to ease the transition into and out of the poem and provide a sense of closure. In the middle, I changed up the wording so it was a little bit unconventional to signify the change from a whirlwind fantasy to the crushing reality that someone's emotions were played with.
To be honest, I'm not sure if you can see my blog....or not. So if not, heres the website http://angelaandacomputer.blogspot.com/2012/03/sonnets-la-bonnets.html
ReplyDeletei broke my structure into the first line explaining what im comparing, then comparing it, then saying i hate it. by rhyming is every other line even on the last two lines, the Volta is when i switch from loving to hating the game.
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14 lines long
Written in iambic pentameter
3 part structure beginning middle end
Have a volta or turn in their content
Have a distinct rhyme scheme
5 bah dums per line
When I used to be a little kid
I would jump around like a pop rock
Even when I would be loud
I know that my momma would be proud
To be with me is what she loved
I could be one sweet little kid
When were together in one sweet world
Even when this life put us in a twirl
I always knew I could come back to her
Even when things were a bluur
She could be their in a cats puur
I loved when my mom stroked my hair
At night we would laugh and pray
To this day I always love my mom
When i used to be a little kid
ReplyDeleteI would dance around and jump up and down
I loved to dance to a fittle, i did
I would strole all around town
I used to take my mommies breath away
she said i danced like a ballerina
and loved to watch me dance it away
up and down, all around i would leana
Oh how she loves t watch me dance here
on the stage, in my room, or in the rain
she would sit and love to watch me and cheer
take a page, with a boom, and i'd be sane
my mom so proud she makes a photobook
all the memories are so loud i look
This poem is a sonnet because it fits th criteria of a sonnet.
-it is 14 lines long
-it is written in iambi pentameter -it has a three part structure
-it has a rhyming scheme
-it's formatted in abab cdcd efef gg for rhyming each line of the same letter
I wrote my sonnet about how my love for my brother has changed and how when we were younger I didnt understand him so it was hard to love him.
ReplyDeleteat the end there is a volta and this is where he grows up and I can relate to him.
the poem is 14 lines and written in Iambi pentameter
I wrote my sonnet about the depression I was dealing with, and how when everything seemed like it would end, this girl came into my life and changed everything for the better. My volta is at the end saying that I'm losing sight of her the farther we're apart, but where there's a will there's a way.
ReplyDeleteIt be 14 lines and iambi pentamenter and follows the volta rule.
I don't know if you can see my blog so here's the link http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2124455128552035433#allposts
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