alright ladies and gentlemen happy Friday the date is April 17th I believe and we've made it through a couple sonnets this week and I hope you've enjoyed them so far so you were taking a look at sun at 75 which is also done by edmund spenser i think we have one more by him after this before we shift gears I have a picture the ocean is yours you're gonna see in a minute that is pretty relevant to the content for this particular poem remember sauce these fourteen line poems written in iambic pentameter with a relatively set rhyme scheme they're pretty impressive to make them fit this form and I think maybe we take for granted cuz it looks easy but I've been always impressed by it okay so an introduction of this sonnet this is not it's gonna depict the speaker's attempts to make his loved one immortal okay so he keeps writing his lover's name in the sands at the beach and he gets frustrated when they get washed away you know the tide keeps coming up just like with a sandcastle that you build earlier in the morning and then by the afternoon it's gone because that's what happens at the beach the woman reacts to the writing of her name on the beach and just tells him that these attempts are useless because she just like her name that he's writing in the sand it's gonna disappear from the world one day if he forgotten you're you know she's gonna call him out for trying to make something that is mortal you know will die her into something immortal he disagrees the speaker arguing that through the lines of his poem both she and their love for one another would live forever again these sonnet writers have a pretty lofty opinion of their poetry their art form and you know we saw that in sonnet one as well which was the first one in this comment sequence I'm ready all right let's take a look at it one day I wrote her name upon the Strand and The Strand is like that strip of sand by the beach but came the waves and washed it away again I write it with a second hand but came tide and made my pains his prey they man said she that doest in vain assay immortal things so to immortalize for I myself shall like to this decay and eat or means also my name be wiped out likewise not quote or said I let baser things devise to die in dust but you shall live by Fame my verse your virtues rare shall eat your knives and in the heavens write your glorious name where when as death shall all the world subdue our love shall live and later life renew so first things first rhyme scheme you can say I'm establishing it here with all these rhymes up very they fit together pretty pretty clean cleanly there's no structures with words for this particular sonnet alright it's from sir wrote it hence as of sponsoring sonnet he follows a Spencerian rhyme scheme of three quatrains at a couplet with interlocking quatrains that share one rhyme sound hopefully we're pretty familiar with that by now question one on your packet just asks you to identify that rhyme scheme and the type of sonnet so it's a Spencerian sonnet and you can see the rhyme scheme there question 2 what is the speaker unsuccessfully trying to do in the first quadrant of the sonnet hopefully that's pretty clear to you he's trying to write her name on the strip of beach the strand and the waves keep coming and washing it away and he does it a second time it does the same thing I don't know if you remember this but on the Ocean City Boardwalk there used to be a movie theater called The Strand and that was once I learned what that word meant it made sense oh it's on the beach that strip of sand by the water question three personification explained how the tide is personified okay so personification giving human-like traits to you know something that is not human you know does not have those abilities if you take a look at the highlighted part of line for the tie made my pains his efforts to write the name his prey so that makes the time like a predator and his efforts to write though within the sand like the victim of the tide that the tide is seeking to destroy him okay so there's their personification question for why does the lady say the speaker's attempts are futile or useless let's take a look at quatrain - for this even though I've only highlighted lines 6 7 & 8 I'm going to start with length 5 same man said she that doest and vena say immortal thing so to immortalize and here's your answer for I myself shall like to this decay and Iker also my name be wiped out let likewise she goes its use to try to make something mortal immortal just like me I'm gonna be washed away and no one's gonna remember me on this earth and before do you think it's like really stupid to write the name on the beach yes he could have probably picked something more permanent but this is like no different than when people like initials on a tree you know JG loves s T you know my husband and I did that on a tree when we were at a resort on our honeymoon or you know when people write and spray paint in the city you know their initials or that they love somebody or if they get a tattoo with their name with a heart around it like these are always we kind of attempt to make something permanent out of the feelings that we're feeling so for whatever it's worth that might might offer a better understanding question 5 in life's 5 & 6 how does how the lady describes him and his actions or how does the lady describe him and his actions and how is it used differently in both cases so the word vain is used twice in lines actually just line five but she continues to explain in line six let's take a look at a couple ways that the word vain can be used all right that's an adjective it's first meaning is having or showing an excessively high opinion of one's appearance abilities or worth so if you think back to our last sonnet narcissus was vain he was you know excessively preoccupied with how he looked and had a very high opinion of it that's why he couldn't look away from the stream if you recall that allusion to Greek mythology a second meaning is first if something is vain its its producing no result or it's useless so considering that let's look again at question 5 he's vain in the sense she calls him a vain man because he actually thinks its efforts he has the ability to make her permanent in the earth and and so that people will remember her forever and so she kind of makes teases him a little bit about that and calls him vain which is not complimentary and then let's look at the second part he did that that doest in vain assay or try to make a mortal thing immortal it's it's a vain attempt to try to do that because it's useless it's it's not gonna last in Christ a little bit different in both cases there question 6 the speaker degrees with what disagrees with what she says and reason or explanation does he offer so here's where the sonnet takes a different turn he goes not so he's basically like nuh-uh let baser or lower things than you device to giant dust he goes but you shall live by Fame and here's why my verse the lines of the poem that I'm writing like verses been a song my verse your virtues rare shall eat your knives okay so the syntax is a little off the order of the words little off there but let me rephrase that he says my verse shall eat your knives or make eternal your rare virtues okay and in the heavens my poems will write your glorious name obviously there's some hyperbole and well imagery effect there going on but again I told you sonnet writers have a pretty high opinion of their art in their form so he's saying you know I disagree with you you're not gonna be forgotten because you are the superior being you're not like the baser or lower things in this world that are just gonna die because my poetry is going to basically preserve you forever question 7 what connection does the poem make between immortality and poetry okay I'm kind of reiterating a similar point here with this question but you can see that the speaker believes that the poem poetry makes someone immortal that poetry can make you live forever and before that sounds super ridiculous I mean perhaps you can argue me there are some truth to it because this was like written in like the late 1500s I think those are the dates for Edmund Spenser and here we are it's 20/20 or remote learning and you know with some kind of pandemic going on and here we are reading and talking about this love story so perhaps there's some truth to that questioning where is the turning point or the volta in this Sun and explain how the sonnet changes this course here so we talked about the Volta with the last poem and I'm 13 am there in all the sonnets but let's take a look again what a Volta is it's the turn in the Sun or a moment a dramatic shifter in the tone or theme and abrupt or sudden change and thoughts are arguments there's often some kind of initial word that offers a change of direction you know the words but yet and yet we don't have that in this poem but we do have a pretty clear one or he just says not so he basically says uh-uh that's not the case let me explain to you why and you see a break in in what this the direction of the summit so the first part is his attempts to watch her write her name in the sand and the tide washing it way and her calling him out and saying that's silly you can't make me immortal you can't put my name and it's not gonna last and he goes nope that's not true actually let me tell you why because my verses are going to preserve you for all eternity okay so you should be able to explain that okay there all right and question nine question nine I just ask you to summarize what this sauna is about in two to three sentences so hopefully you can kind of summarize that for me to kind of show your final understanding of this piece okay and that's Spencer Sun at 79 close this out all right I'll talk to you guys later