Poetry, rhymes, shakespeare and iambic pentameter..?

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They spoke that way in the middle ages. Shakespeare was a pen name used by Freemasons charged by the queen of England to bring all the various dialects of English together and evolve the language in order to unite the country under a language everyone spoke. Like you, a lot of people then couldn't understand people who talked like Shakespeare's compositions.

Poetry can be set to music, or it came from music. Music of course has a beat and rhythm and rhymes, just because rhyming words goes with the music in songs where notes, bars and measures are repeated. It's also like life, like your heart beat, and people who are artistic use the right side of their brain, so when they write and compose, they do it playfully, because life is a play and playful, and I suppose they feel the rhythm of life more because they have a more developed insight than those who aren't artistic.
 
They spoke that way in the middle ages. Shakespeare was a pen name used by Freemasons charged by the queen of England to bring all the various dialects of English together and evolve the language in order to unite the country under a language everyone spoke. Like you, a lot of people then couldn't understand people who talked like Shakespeare's compositions.

Poetry can be set to music, or it came from music. Music of course has a beat and rhythm and rhymes, just because rhyming words goes with the music in songs where notes, bars and measures are repeated. It's also like life, like your heart beat, and people who are artistic use the right side of their brain, so when they write and compose, they do it playfully, because life is a play and playful, and I suppose they feel the rhythm of life more because they have a more developed insight than those who aren't artistic.
 
I think the different styles of poetry became more fashionable throughout times in history, for example limericks became very fashionable with the youth 5 years ago. Iambic pentameter is just another style of writing the poem i think shakespeare liked the way it sounded. It may be easier to read aabbcc but it doesn't make the poems any worse.
They did speak the way they are portrayed in shakespearean times. Shakespeare probably uses some colloquialisms as well but much of the way they spoke remains today in common English however it still evolved when we were invaded by other countries and took on parts of their language.
 
Hi!
At present we are studying literature history in school, and we have read tons of poems. The thing that I don't understand is (I realize this is a pretty stupid question)..Why did they write (Shakespeare for example) in iambic pentameter (sonnets)? Was that just a style that was famous to use, every other line rhymes with each other, do those lines have something to say together. or is the rhyme on every other line there just because they liked how it sounded that way? I mean it's way more complicated to read those kind of poems than those who rhymes aa bb cc (instead of ababcdcd...)
And one more question..;) Even though the "language" (If we take shakespeare as an example again) that they wrote in is kind of old fashioned in comparisin with how we speak today, did they speak like that or did they make it complicated just because they wanted it to sound good?

Thanks!
 
They spoke that way in the middle ages. Shakespeare was a pen name used by Freemasons charged by the queen of England to bring all the various dialects of English together and evolve the language in order to unite the country under a language everyone spoke. Like you, a lot of people then couldn't understand people who talked like Shakespeare's compositions.

Poetry can be set to music, or it came from music. Music of course has a beat and rhythm and rhymes, just because rhyming words goes with the music in songs where notes, bars and measures are repeated. It's also like life, like your heart beat, and people who are artistic use the right side of their brain, so when they write and compose, they do it playfully, because life is a play and playful, and I suppose they feel the rhythm of life more because they have a more developed insight than those who aren't artistic.
 
I think the different styles of poetry became more fashionable throughout times in history, for example limericks became very fashionable with the youth 5 years ago. Iambic pentameter is just another style of writing the poem i think shakespeare liked the way it sounded. It may be easier to read aabbcc but it doesn't make the poems any worse.
They did speak the way they are portrayed in shakespearean times. Shakespeare probably uses some colloquialisms as well but much of the way they spoke remains today in common English however it still evolved when we were invaded by other countries and took on parts of their language.
 
I think the different styles of poetry became more fashionable throughout times in history, for example limericks became very fashionable with the youth 5 years ago. Iambic pentameter is just another style of writing the poem i think shakespeare liked the way it sounded. It may be easier to read aabbcc but it doesn't make the poems any worse.
They did speak the way they are portrayed in shakespearean times. Shakespeare probably uses some colloquialisms as well but much of the way they spoke remains today in common English however it still evolved when we were invaded by other countries and took on parts of their language.
 
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