Edginess and the Student Response | Blogging Pedagogy

Today I taught a lesson about Shakespeare’s sonnets and love songs. First we discuss a couple of Shakespeare’s sonnets, how the reading audience witnesses the love-interaction between lover and beloved. Then we listen to various love songs (some well-known, others less so) and discuss how the situations are strikingly similar to that of the sonnets. In each form, a (typically male) lover sings to his beloved about the effect she has on him. Then we discuss how other cultural forms work similarly. Usually students volunteer media like television or movies. Often the word voyeur gets thrown out, and we talk about how the word literally means “looker” or “watcher,” and how that aptly describes the situation.

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