Connections: English 121: Assignments: Sonnet Explication

The sonnet explication provides you an early opportunity to work through a Shakespearean text and get feedback on your writing before the course's main paper and exams. In less than 1,000 words, the sonnet explication should address any of Shakespeare's sonnets that we have not covered thoroughly in class. (A few minutes of class discussion is fine.) The goal of the explication is to explain how Shakespeare creates the meaning or meanings of the poem through his manipulation of the form and language of your chosen sonnet.

You may use outside sources for this paper, though they are not required. You will find the online Oxford English Dictionary, with its wonderful chronological structure, useful for examining the inflections of single words. This and any other outside sources should be cited carefully so that I understand what material comes from those sources and what is your own.

Use MLA Style for the documentation of the paper. This assignment will be graded on a check-plus, check, check-minus scale.

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