Sonnets

For the first unit of our new STEAM course Drama, we researched the life of William Shakespeare and life during the Elizabethan Era. During this unit we also read and acted out scenes from Shakespeare's "The Taming of The Shrew"  via Zoom calls. While read we explored the writing of sonnets, which are poems with 14 lines, each line is 10 syllables, and a couplet and follow the rhyme scheme ABAB. Sonnets also are written using iambic pentameter which is putting emphasis on every other syllable in the line.  For our Action Project we had to write a sonnet speaking to a character of our choice from "The Taming of The Shrew." I chose to write a sonnet speaking to Katherina Minola, who is the shrew, to encourage her to keep speaking her mind, even if if it wasn't accepted in a patriarchal society.

1. Oh Kate you must not be so very frank
2. Your candid words flout men away they say
3. Meant to marry for thy father and rank
4. Petruchio works for you to obey 
5. To be so sad, become one with yourself
6. Then doff him away from your existence
7. Do not bid him farewell, just leave oneself
8. Your only friend from there on is distance
9. Your betters have endured me say my mind
10. And if you cannot, best you stop your ears. 
11. Stuck with a madcap, I’d rather go blind
12. And live with fear for the forthcoming years
13. Withal that you may face you’ll still persist
14. Take true, these words, I must truly insist