09/26/2014

Read the Renaissance poems listed below and be prepared to discuss them on Monday; take a few notes on each poem--you will not turn these notes in, but it will help you offer educated, intelligent responses yo:

Renaissance Readings: Look them up in the table of contents (if you cannot find them in the book, then read them online):

1. “Thou blind man’s mark”

2. “One day I wrote her name upon a strand”

3. “The Lie” Sir Walter Raleigh

4. “from Astrophel and Stella”

5. “Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part” Michael Drayton

6. “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes” Shakespeare

7. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” Shakespeare

8. “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” Shakespeare 

A Sonnet is a moment's monument,--
Memorial from the Soul's eternity
To one dead deathless hour.