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LESSON

Rich Music's Tongue: The Language of Love

Overview

4 Activities
  • Key Stage 4
  • 1 hour
Key questions
  • How does Shakespeare use poetic forms to convey the theme of love?
Key words
  • Blazon
  • Couplet
  • English/Shakespearean sonnet
  • Italian/Petrarchan sonnet
  • Love
  • Lust/infatuation
  • Octave
  • Quatrain
  • Sestet

Lesson objectives

  1. Understanding of theme (love) and informed personal response to the text (AO1)
  2. Analysis of form (poetry) (AO2)
  3. Literary context (Shakespeare's sonnets and sonnet conventions) (AO3)

In this lesson