Journal Four: Betrayal Sonnets
Remember, no class meeting tomorrow or Friday!
I changed the reading assignment, the particular sonnets, for today--78, 80, 81 and 88--so be sure you read the correct ones. The poems for today appear to address the speaker in the poems being betrayed by OOP. Because all sonnets in the Elizabethan era are seen as utterances designed to persuade, what do you take the argument within each sonnet to be? What does the speaker hope either the OOP or the reader/hearer of the poem will come to believe? How can we tell? Your journal should address this for each of the assigned poems, either separately or together. Be sure to respond to at least two journals posted by your peers and respond to a response to your journal. I'll see you all online before we meet again on Thursday.
Bradley
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In number 78, he seems to be
In number 78, he seems to be saying that no matter who else writes about the oop and how talented they might be, no one's work on the same subject can compare with his own. Line 10 says Whose influence is thine and borne of thee. Only the combination of the particular subject and poet can create work to (line 9) Yet be most proud of that which I compile. Shakespeare gives most of the credit to the oop, saying (lines 1 and 2) So oft have I invoked thee for my muse / And found such fair assistance in my verse. I will finish this post later. Melissa