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Poetry of the Renaissance

Poetry of the Renaissance
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     challenging words:    stanza, flattering, epic, format, saying, syllable, comparison, classic, original, famed, strict, present, literature, standard, credit, especially
     content words:    Shel Silverstein, Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, English Renaissance, Fairie Queene, Sir Philip Sydney

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Poetry of the Renaissance
By Sharon Fabian 		  
1     When we think of poetry, we often think of short, funny poems like the works of Shel Silverstein or Dr. Seuss. These poems are popular today with both children and adults. For many years, however, other types of poetry were just as popular.
 
2     Anyone who takes an interest in poetry will soon find that there is a whole tradition of classic poetry which was popular for hundreds of years. Poets like Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare set the standard high for English poetry back in the days of the Renaissance.
 
3     If you go to college and major in English one day, you will get to know some of these poems -lyric, epic, and pastoral poems, and the famed sonnets: formal poems with set patterns of lines, rhythm, and rhyme. You will learn lines of poetry written in iambic pentameter, the pattern of ten syllable lines in which every other syllable is stressed. Poets of the Renaissance enjoyed the challenge of working within the strict rules of these formal poems.

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