Week 5: Prose, Blank Verse, Free Verse, and Iambic Pentameter




Prose               Blank Verse

Poetry     Iambic Pentameter    Blank Verse

   Iambic Pentameter Blank Verse Free Verse  Free Verse  Prose
This week we reviewed iambic pentameter and learned the differences between prose, blank verse, and free verse.  We read the rest of Act II scene 2.  Sampson gave his presentation on “The Ruling Class.”  He taught us about the different social classes during the Elizabethan Era.  They were monarch, nobility, gentry, merchants, yoemanry, and laborers.  Patience gave us the vocablulary word: “argosies” which means large merchant ships.  After all of that we still managed to slip in a game.  Here is a re-cap of what we learned:



We used this worksheet to learn the difference between poetry and prose.  
Prose, Blank Verse, and Free Verse:

Prose is everyday language, it is the language people speak in. It doesn’t contain any of the metrical structure of poetry.

Example:

Hamlet: What hour now?

 Horatio: I think it lacks of twelve.

 Marcellus: No, it is struck.



Blank verse is a specific type of poetry, it does have a meter, mostly iambic pentameter, it doesn’t have to rhyme.

Example:

HAMLET: To be, or not to be- that is the question:

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them. To die- to sleep-

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to. ‘Tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish’d. To die- to sleep.

To sleep- perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub!

Free Verse and Blank Verse and are free from rhyme scheme. Blank verse does have a consistent meter, usually iambic pentameter that creates a du-DUM rhythm effect. Free verse is free from both meter and rhyme. It is free from the limitations of verse poetry. It is used to emphasize specific words and sounds.

Example:

Come Slowly, Eden

“Come slowly, Eden

Lips unused to thee.

Bashful, sip thy jasmines,

As the fainting bee,

Reaching late his flower,

Round her chamber hums,

Counts his nectars—alights,

And is lost in balms!”

By Emily Dickinson



Why Prose and Blank Verse? Many of Shakespeare’s low-class characters speak in prose to distinguish them from the higher-class, verse-speaking characters. We can expect kings and queens to speak in poetry and servants and soldiers in prose.

Whenever Hamlet is pretending madness (or descending into madness), he speaks in prose rather than in iambic pentameter. ... He uses prose primarily with Ophelia, Polonius, Claudius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. But to Horatio and Gertrude, Hamlet speaks in iambic pentameter.

Beginning in Act 2, Scene 2, why does Shakespeare change Hamlet’s language from poetry to prose for much of the rest of the play? 



We did an activity in class.  What lines are in blank verse and what lines are in prose.  (Clue: There are 2 blank verse and 2 prose. Blank verse- 10 syllables)



HAMLET:

But, woe is me, you are so sick of late,

So far from cheer and from your former state,

That I distrust you. Yet, though I distrust,

Discomfort you, my lord, it nothing must. …



HAMLET

For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a

god kissing carrion,--Have you a daughter?



HAMLET

Gentlemen, you are welcome to Elsinore. Your hands,

come then: the appurtenance of welcome is fashion

and ceremony: let me comply with you in this garb,

lest my extent to the players, which, I tell you,

must show fairly outward, should more appear like

entertainment than yours. You are welcome: but my

uncle-father and aunt-mother are deceived.



HAMLET:

O that this too too solid flesh would melt,

Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!

Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d

His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God!


Assignment Reminder:


Writing Assignment: How would you feel if your parents hired someone to be your friend?

Bonus Question: Where do the names Polonius, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Ophelia originate?  


October 17th Presentation: Patience (Makayla) the Geography of England


October 17th Vocabulary Share: Portia (Ava L.)


             
Prose               Blank Verse
Poetry     Iambic Pentameter    Blank Verse



   Iambic Pentameter Blank Verse

   Free Verse  Free Verse  Prose
                











Quotes and examples from: https://www.enotes.com/, https://literarydevices.net/, https://thoughtco.com, https://www.bard.org/study-guides/hamlet-examining-the-text,




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