Acting!

First, we’ll talk to the Italians (1st period only).

Then, we’ll take a little time for groups to get ready. The scenes will begin and we’ll all be impressed.

Hopefully, we’ll have time to look at this in class, but if not it’s homework.  Read this sonnet by Shakespeare and write a 300 word reaction.  Paraphrase the sonnet.  What is the effect or reason behind the use of rhyme, metaphor, and imagery in the poem?  Who do you think is the speaker and who the subject?  Why?

Sonnet XXXVII.

As a decrepit father takes delight
To see his active child do deeds of youth,
So I, made lame by fortune’s dearest spite,
Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
Or any of these all, or all, or more,
Entitled in thy parts do crowned sit,
I make my love engrafted to this store:
So then I am not lame, poor, nor despised,
Whilst that this shadow doth such substance give
That I in thy abundance am sufficed
And by a part of all thy glory live.
Look, what is best, that best I wish in thee:
This wish I have; then ten times happy me!