2015-05-13 Communication: love poems & sayings

Greg Malivuk
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Homework: find a love song or love poem in your language, which you will briefly explain in class
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https://youtu.be/Q3UqusEWGeo (Spanish)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR4ZxjGQGYY (Portuguese)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIrTePS5Bko (Italian)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRUbcvqvLWQ (German, with English translation of lyrics)

http://literat.ug.edu.pl/cnwybor/069.htm (Polish poem)
(“Westside Story” is a modernized musical adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet”)

https://youtu.be/ogRkYS-9CnY (Russian)

http://youtu.be/S5CneAhV7Uc (Arabic)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqQRXhnHt6E (Spanish)

corny = silly in an earnest way (love songs and dad jokes are both usually pretty corny)
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Sonnet:
rhyme scheme is ABAB
meter is iambic pentameter (5 x short LONG) = 10 syllables per line, stress on even numbered syllables

With a partner, guess which word completes each line in Sonnet 18 (American Headway 48-49)

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st;
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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Sonnet 130 - William Shakespeare

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
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On the other side of the handout: part 1 - in pairs (match the beginning and end of different expressions we have about love in English)

1 Love is blind.
2 The course of true love never did run smooth.
3 All the world loves a lover.
4 Cold hands, warm heart.
5 All’s fair in love and war.
6 The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
7 Marry in haste, repent at leisure.
8 Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
9 A little of what you fancy does you good.
10 Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
11 Familiarity breeds contempt.