sequence was written as a series of love poems to an idealized and idolized mistress‚ Laura. In those sonnets Petrarch praises her beauty‚ her worth‚ and her perfection. He has used an extraordinary variety of metaphors‚ largely based on natural beauties. But in Shakespeare’s day these metaphors had already become cliché. But they were still accepted as the technique for writing love poetry. The result was that those love poems tended to make high idealizing comparisons between nature and beloved. Such
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“SONNET 34” by Edmund Spenser Sonnet 34‚ which is included in a collection of poems known as “Amoretti” by Edmund Spenser‚ was published in 1595. Throughout this poem the speaker expresses feelings of depression and anguish because of the loss of his beloved. However‚ he is not pessimistic at all since he knows that his love for her will bring him joy once more. This poem is a Spenserian sonnet which is composed of three quatrains and a final couplet. The rhyme pattern is abab bcbc cdcd ee written
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The Spenserian Sonnet was named for Edmund Spenser 1552-1599‚ a 16th century English Poet. The Spenserian Sonnet inherited the tradition of the declamatory couplet of Wyatt / Surrey although Spenser used Sicilian quatrains to develop a metaphor‚ conflict‚ idea or question logically‚ with the declamatory couplet resolving it. Beyond the prerequisite for all sonnets‚ the defining features of the Spenserian Sonnet are: a quatorzain made up of 3 Sicilian quatrains (4 lines alternating rhyme) and
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Let’s Sum Up Questions for Review Additional Reading 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.0 OBJECTIVES The intent of this unit is to: 4 4 4 4 Provide the student with a brief idea about the Amoretti sonnets in general. Familiarize the student with a select few of Spenser’s sonnets‚ specifically from the Amoretti sonnets. Indicate seine ways of analysing the sonnets that the student may want to take further‚ through a combination of formal and substantial elements. Explore the relations between the
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be considered to be daft. One poet supported the conventional view of love. While the other did not‚ and therein lies the difference. For foundation‚ Shakespeare’s Sonnet 145 proves that love means more to him then virtue‚ while Spenser’s sonnet Amoretti: 79 states that virtue means more to him than love. However‚ regardless of the fact that their values supersede each other‚ when compared‚ the topics of their sonnets are very similar. Both exhibit a representation of the speaker talking to a beautiful
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Old English. Circa 500A.D. Beowulf: First version=Codex Cotton Vitelliusfire‚ so passed down orally Lacunae=holes from moths First word of poem is Hwaet=O.E. for a greeting: hey‚ listen up! Whale’s way=the sea Comitatus=latin=duty of follower to hand everything won to the king who then distributes the wealth based on merit Grendel=large‚ condemned by God; descendant of Cain‚ “one against all‚” wont pay Wergild=price paid to family of the enemy you killed in battle; a matter of honor. Witan=council
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The Evolution of the English Sonnet or The Corruption of the Italian Sonnet Petrarch (Francesco Petrarcha) (1304-1374): The Petrarchan Sonnet Background: • Wrote a collection called variously Canzoniere (canzone means song)‚ Rerum vulgarium fragmenta (Fragments of vernacular things)‚ or Rime Sparse (Scattered Rhymes) • Considered the Father of the sonnet‚ from Ital. sonetto‚ meaning a little song or sound • Wrote a volume containing 366 poems in the Tuscan vernacular; 317 of which are
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intend to discuss similarities and differences between Spenser’s and Ovid’s poems according to their structure‚ theme‚ tone and poetic devices. Edmund Spenser‚ Amoretti sonnet (75): One day I wrote her name This poem is said to have been written on Spenser’s love affair and eventual marriage to Elizabeth Boyle‚ his second wife. In Sonnet (75)‚ the poet centers on the immortality of spiritual love and the temporarily of physical love. Structure: The poem presents a dialogue between Spenser and his
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"fallen country‚" India. The poem was published before Derozio’s untimely death at the age of twenty-two from cholera in 1831. The abab abcc dede ff rhyme scheme employed by Derozio is most clearly identifiable as a variation of Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti rhyme scheme Introduction to the Poem • To India- My Native Land is one of the best known poem of Derozio. • In This Poem‚ Derozio expresses his grief over the past glory of India. • The country has lost it altogether. • Time was
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Elizabethan Sonneteers Like some other literary genres the sonnet in England was imported from abroad. Most probably it was originated in Italy in the 13th century with Dante who wrote a number of sonnets to his beloved named Beatrice. A sonnet is according to M.H. Abrahm‚ “A lyric poem of fourteen lines that has a specific rhyme scheme written in iambic pentameter.” The flowering of the sonnet came with Petrarch‚ a generation later. It was Wyatt who introduced the sonnet in England. He wrote
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