Shakespearean “Pop Sonnet” Analysis
In a well-organized response answer the following questions:
- What is the title and who is the artist of your song? What is the title of your sonnet? How do these two relate?
- What is the theme of the song and your sonnet? How did you make the connections clear between the two? What was your strategy in making the sonnet match the song?
- On a scale of one to ten with one being the easiest and ten being the most challenging, how challenging was it to write this sonnet? Explain.
- What was the most challenging part of composing your sonnet? Why?
- Where is the volta? Explain what the turn or shift in meaning is.
- Did you use any figurative language? If so, make sure you italicize them in your sonnet. Also, explain here what it was and why you used it in your sonnet.
- Did you use any poetic sound devices? If so, make sure you italicize them in your sonnet.
- Be sure to bold any Shakespearean language used in your sonnet. Remember, the requirement was ten words or phrases...but many of you had more than that. What is the effect of using this type of language to convey a modern song?
