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H12 · 11-10-2003, 04:14 PM

Okay, before everyone jumps on my case about not using Google, I PLAN TO, but I'd like some help first...

I have a short research paper due Thursday about the development of the English sonnet. I got to thinkin' to myself "You know, that sounds easy enough, but I don't know any key points along the way". So what I'd like to ask is some important steps in the making of the English sonnet, then I could research them in-depth. Thanks in advance.

Moskie · 11-11-2003, 12:55 AM

Hm, interesting question, I'd like to know any interesting facts if you find them.

I'm not sure if it's important, but the scene in Romeo and Juliet, where they first meet at the party, they speak together in a sonnet, each one with an alternate segment. Maybe that's a step, in that Shakespeare incorporated a sonnet as dialog between two characters?

*searches Yahoo! Reference....*

here's their first lines together, beginning at 1.5.93:

Quote:

Code:

Rom.   [To JULIET.] If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this;	 	
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand	 	
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Jul.   Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,	 	
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;	 	
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,	 	
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.	
Rom.   Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?	 	
Jul.   Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.	 	
Rom.   O! then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;	 	
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.	
Jul.   Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.	
Rom.   Then move not, while my prayers' effect I take.

Hope that helps.

11-10-2003, 04:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
H12 I'm not about getting creamed, I'm about winning! Location: K-Town, TN	English Sonnet Development Okay, before everyone jumps on my case about not using Google, I PLAN TO, but I'd like some help first... I have a short research paper due Thursday about the development of the English sonnet. I got to thinkin' to myself "You know, that sounds easy enough, but I don't know any key points along the way". So what I'd like to ask is some important steps in the making of the English sonnet, then I could research them in-depth. Thanks in advance. __________________ "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle