![]() ![]() ![]() Gauge students’ prior knowledge of Barrett Browning’s sequence, and sonnet sequences as a whole. Sonnet 28 is part of the most famous sonnet sequence in English.Try writing a sonnet that describes some other kind of progress or progression-examples might include the end of a love affair, a course of study, the life of someone or something. This sonnet narrates the sequence of a love affair, from friendship to impassioned declarations of love.Choose an object that seems similarly affective-capable of creating or transmitting emotions-and describe the process by which it comes to life. ![]() Barrett Browning animates what seems to be “dead paper,” suggesting that certain objects are “alive” because of the emotions they contain (from the beloved) and generate (in the lover).Pay attention to the physical and psychological responses generated by looking and reading like Barrett Browning, play with deixis, punctuation, and citation to recreate sensations and bring readers to your scene. Describe a scene of reading (or viewing) personal communications-emails, texts, social media posts-without revealing the content of the communiqués. Try writing an update to Barrett Browning’s sonnet, putting her speaker in the context of a networked age. ![]()
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