Document Type
Teacher Resource
Publication Date
Spring 2015
Abstract
Students will learn the components of a Shakespearean sonnet by looking at the intentions and figurative language of modern music and tracing it back to Spenser’s blazon “Sonnet XV” and Shakespeare’s response in “Sonnet 130”. This lesson allows multiple entry points into the language, content and form of Shakespeare’s sonnets. This lesson can be used at the beginning of a unit on Shakespeare, Renaissance poetry, or sonnets.
Recommended Citation
Trackman, Nicole, "From Present to Past: Contextualizing the Sonnet" (2015). Understanding Poetry. 14.
https://digitalcommons.imsa.edu/poetry/14