Finish Scene 1.1 on Film
Journal 7: What possible messages about love do we get from 1.1? How does Helena’s monologue about love differ from the exchange between Hermia and Lysander? Choose a quote from the text to analyze in the context of this question. REVIEW THE TEXT
Finding Shakespeare’s Beat
Think about a song you have had memorized for a long time. Why do you remember it?
Green Eggs and Ham
What is the beat? Tap it out?
What do we mean by “meter” in poetry?
GE&H employs heptameter and tetrameter
Trochee: “foot” where stress falls on first syllable
Iamb: “foot” where stress falls on second syllable
TETRAMETER!
Puck’s last soliliquoy (page 72) : trochaic tetrameter
PENTAMETER!
From Akala’s TED talk
2.1.18 (page 13 in your script)
“The king doth keep his revels here tonight…”: iambic pentameter
Watch the film version of 2.1
