William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He is widely considered the greatest writer in the English language and wrote about 38 plays and 154 sonnets. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more frequently than any other playwright's. Shakespeare introduced over 1,700 words to the English language that are still used today. Some of his most famous works discussed are Sonnet 29 and Sonnet 1.

9. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
• English poet, playwright, and actor
• widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the
world's pre-eminent dramatist
• often called England's national poet and nicknamed the Bard of Avon
• born on 26 April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon.
• wrote about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a
few other verses
• the plays were translated into every major living language and are
performed more often than those of any other playwright.
http://www.myenglishpages.com/
-has contributed more than 1,700
English words that are still used
today

11. SONNET XXIX
BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.http://www.shakespeares-
sonnets.com/sonnet/29

12. 3 CHARACTERISTICS OF POETRY
1. RHYTHM - the melodious quality of the poem, for example: grand, solemn,
majestic; echoing and full; slow and mournful; rapid and light; airy and
whimsical; or crystalline.
- the recurrence of high-pitched and low-pitched syllables creating a pattern.
2. IMAGERY- refers to the expression evocative of objects of sensuous appeal.
-the products of the writer’s creative imagination and result in making an
impression or experience more precise and vivid. Imagery may be in form of
direct description or may be figurative.
3. SENSE/MEANING - a poem must say something. It must enlighten, reveal a
truth, open new vistas, give new perceptions, enable us to understand the world
around us more deeply, and see things beyond our physical senses.
https://thelitpath.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/characteristics-of-a-poem/

13. SONNET 1: FROM FAIREST
CREATURES WE DESIRE INCREASE
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty’s rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decrease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed’st thy light’st flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.
Activity
https://www.nosweatshakespear
e.com/sonnets/1/

14. REFERENCES
http://www.myenglishpages.com/
https://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/sonnets/1/
http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonnet/29
https://thelitpath.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/characteristics-of-a-poem/
Pictures arranged per slide:
1. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/
2. https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/william-shakespeares-romeo-juliet
3. http://dailybruin.com/2012/03/14/shakespeare
4. https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Shakespeare_in_Love
5. https://www.thinglink.com/scene/
6. https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/category/topics/shakespeare