Romantic sonnets for Valentines Day

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Homework: We will be using the photograph tomorrow, so bring in a photo of a family member or friend that is important to you.

Poems of the day: romantic sonnets on pages 118-119 in Poetry with Teenagers.

From Romeo and Juliet:

ROMEO
[To JULIET] If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

JULIET
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

ROMEO
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

ROMEO
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.

JULIET
Then have my lips the sin that they have took.

ROMEO
Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.

JULIET
You kiss by the book.

Sonnet 36 by William Shakespeare

How Do I Love Thee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Write what is romantic about the poems? What lines are romantic? Why?

Finish cut-out poems.

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