Survey of English Literature I - Assignment 15 James Madison University

Instructions: This assignment can be hand-written as long as it's legible and on a full-size sheet of paper. This is an "ungraded" assignent, which means it will be graded only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.

• As background, read the following brief discussion of the origin and form of sonnets: A Guide to the Sonnet
• Then, choose any one of the four Shakespearean sonnets in your assigned reading for Weds., 10/21, and summarize how the meaning of that poem develops over the four segments (ie., the three quatrains and a couplet).