Yesterday I went to the “How to Read a Sonnet” workshop. We read one of Shakespeare’s sonnets and broke down the meaning while learning the components of an actual sonnet and differences in thee works of Shakespeare. The instructor was very excited about this topic it seemed. It was pretty refreshing o see. We read the sonnet out loud a s a group about 3 times and heard a recording. Then we went on to learn the basic structure of a typical sonnet.it’s typically 14 lines with 10 syllables per line. Shakespeare though, his rebellious self, actually wrote some of him sonnets with 11 syllables per line, like the sonnet we were reading during the workshop , for example. We then went on to talk about the rhythm of sonnets, stresses and unstressed words and how they play into the reading of a sonnet which are meant to be read out loud or with an inner voice. After that we went deeper into what Shakespeare was actually talking about and who he was writing about. Interestingly enough it turned out to be about nature making a human, starting off female, then nature falls in love with it’s creation and places a penis on the original woman to satisfy nature. It was an interesting conversation as we all participated in dissecting the meaning of the sonnet and once again reading one of Shakespeare’s twisted works. All in all I enjoyed it.