Your outlines are due tomorrow.
Last year, the children completed their introductions BEFORE they wrote outlines. YOU will be outlining your introduction as well.
Have a look at this sample from last year:
Paige Outline
And here is mine:
Emily Rock
English I Honors
20 May 2009
I.
Introduction:
A. There are no
lines from William Shakespeare’s canon more immortal than those opening Sonnet
18.
B. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day…” begins as
an ode to a near-perfect love and serves to end the burdens of the earlier
sonnets in the cycle
C. Sonnet 18 stands not only as a testament to the
epitome of Renaissance beauty, but as a cautionary tale for wayward youths.
II.
Sonnet 18 is really about surface love, not real
love.
A.
Vendler
calls it “innocuous, dulcet, light.”
B.
Love is too deep for elaboration?
C.
Real love cannot be expressed in 14 lines, but
immortalization can be achieved.
III.
The theme of Nature lends itself to the ideas of
reproduction
A.
Vendler
discusses the idea of ‘necessity’ in the sonnet.
B.
Reminders of death, particularly with image of
‘sun.’
C.
Beauty will die first, and then the Young Man is
worthless.
IV.
Sonnet 18 is , after all, a sonnet of
conventions.
A.
Shakespeare
takes convention and trumps them
B.
The beloved is too beautiful even for
convention—beyond flattery.
C.
This pedestal foreshadows that eventual death of
the relationship
D.
In the end, it is impossible to love someone so
revered/perfect.(Vendler—“denigrate the perfect metaphor.”)
