{"id":78,"date":"2017-02-03T11:53:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T16:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=78"},"modified":"2017-02-03T11:53:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T16:53:29","slug":"shakespeare-sonnet-8-rewednesdays-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/romancing-the-sonnet\/shakespeare-sonnet-8-rewednesdays-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Sonnet 8, re:Wednesday\u2019s class"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Our group decided that Shakespeare\u2019s Sonnet 8 falls into Vendler\u2019s category of the Perceptual: the speaker observes the subject from on high, and draws a metaphor between the subject\u2019s dislike of the music he listens to and his desire remain single. Shakespeare employs the conceit of music to encourage\u2014as in the other sonnets we have read thus far\u2014the subject to gain a partner. \u00a0The auditory experience here works on several levels: the second quatrain, describing the \u201coffend[ing]\u201d and \u201cconfound[ing]\u201d of the subject and listener, sounds choppy, and contains hard \u201cc\u201d sounds. The third quatrain, in which Shakespeare remarks that music played in harmony trumps that of a single note, the \u201co\u201d \u00a0and \u201ci\u201d vowels stand out more: \u201cMark how one string, sweet husband to another,\/ Strikes each in each by mutual ordering,\/ Resembling sire and child and happy mother\/ Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing,\u201d giving that section of the sonnet a more open and enjoyable sound. We had trouble deciphering the logic of the sonnet. For one, why would someone listen to music if not enjoying it? Is this about indulgence in unhappiness? We did wonder about Shakespeare\u2019s perhaps homosexual connotations in including the line concerning mutuality: \u201cSweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Alex and Mariam, please step in!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our group decided that Shakespeare\u2019s Sonnet 8 falls into Vendler\u2019s category of the Perceptual: the speaker observes the subject from on high, and draws a metaphor between the subject\u2019s dislike of the music he listens to and his desire remain single. Shakespeare employs the conceit of music to encourage\u2014as in the other sonnets we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romancing-the-sonnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}