name: Tanoni‚ Cynthia Students’ names: Arias‚ Antonella - Brito‚ Priscila Analysis of a Poem: “Sonnet XXXIV” by Edmund Spenser “Sonnet XXXIV” is a lyrical poem written by Edmund Spenser in the 16th century‚ during the Renaissance age. It was published as part of the Amoretti sonnet cycle‚ along with 88 other sonnets‚ which describe the poet’s courtship and eventual marriage to Elizabeth Boyle. In “Sonnet XXXIV” Spenser describes a ship at sea that cannot navigate by the stars because clouds of a storm
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virgin and that she worked under the service of Venus. “Marlowe seems more interested in how to get sexual results” (222). In class we talked about how their love is described as a sexual love because they were not married like the couple was in Amoretti. Leaner was not afraid to express his feelings and concern to Hero. Leander thinks that Hero is not treating herself well enough because she is a virgin. “A variety of verbal and nonverbal expressions of love could result in‚ or at least be confused
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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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CLASSICAL BACKGROUND GREEK Background: Mythology‚ Heroic Age‚ Epic‚ Lyric (The Four Schools)‚ Tragedy‚ Comedy. Poetry Prose Drama Homer = Iliad Aristotle=Poetics Sophocles= King Oedipus‚Antigone Odyssey Plato =Republic Aeschylus
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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 lady. Spenser’s poem is a sonnet‚ consists of 14 lines‚ divided into three quatrains and a couplet
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SONNET ‘A very useful book indeed‚ and one which will add to the scope of current debates about the sonnet.’ John Drakakis‚ University of Stirling In this indispensable introductory study of the Renaissance sonnet‚ Michael R.G.Spiller takes the reader on an illuminating guided tour. He begins with the invention of the sonnet in thirteenth-century Italy and traces its progress through to the time of Milton‚ showing how the form has developed and acquired the capacity to express
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SPEN ser 1552-1599 I. Introduction Spenser‚ Edmund (1552?-1599)‚ great English poet‚ who bridged the medieval and Elizabethan periods‚ and who is most famous for his long allegorical romance‚ The Faerie Queene. II. Life and Works Spenser was born in London‚ where he attended the Merchant Tailor’s School. He then went on to Pembroke College‚ University of Cambridge‚ where he took a degree in 1576. In 1579 he entered the service of the English courtier Robert Dudley‚ earl of Leicester‚ and
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INTRODUCTION A sonnet of fourteen lines divided between three quatrains and an ending couplet‚ "To India My Native Land" is a song of love and deep emotion from Henry Louis Vivian Derozio to his "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
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mistress may be the reason behind his remarkable‚ yet dark last twenty seven sonnets. She “has come to be known as the Dark Lady‚ a name that reflects her morals as well as her complexion” (Andrews “Love…” 64). Along with being Shakespeare’s mistress‚ the Dark Lady was married and musically inclined (Love). She challenged not only her bed vows‚ but Shakespeare’s also. The Dark Lady influenced a significant deal of Shakespeare’s sonnets and life and will never be identified‚ but Emilia Lanier proves to be
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staged around chastity‚ obedience and silence (Shaver‚ 63.) Lady Wroth‚ displays this in Pamphilia to Amphilanthus repeatedly. Wroth uses her literary powers to create an ambiguous‚ double-sided perspective. One sees this‚ for example‚ in the line from Sonnet 1‚ “But one heart flaming more than all the rest / The goddess held‚ and put it to my breast” (lines 8-10)‚ Wroth creates the image of the speaker‚ Pamphilia‚ being unable to stop the ‘Goddess’ from giving her this desire‚ which makes her an involuntary
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