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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two writers both hidden under one pen name? Using Shakespeare sonnets 79‚ 80‚ 83‚ 84‚ 86‚ and looking for both point of views and diction in the sonnets there is proof that it’s not one writer but two. In “Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid “‚ is Shakespearean sonnet 79 which was written by two writers’ and can be expressed by diction. There have been many
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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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The sonnets are traditionally divided into two major groups: the fair lord sonnets (1-126) and the dark lady sonnets (127-154). The fair lord sonnets explore the narrator’s consuming infatuation with a young and beautiful man‚ while the dark lady sonnets engage his lustful desire for a woman who is not his wife. The narrator is tormented as he struggles to reconcile the uncontrollable urges of his heart with his mind’s better judgment‚ all the while in a desperate race against time. The sonnets
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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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Love: The Person That Will Ruin One’s Life A common thread connecting all of William Shakespeare’s works is love and sight. Many of Shakespeare’s poems‚ sonnets‚ and plays deal with love and how it can be a guiding force. He wrote love poems and romantic plays about what happens when people are in love. FLUFFFFFFF (insert transition) sight is also a prevalent aspect of Shakespeare’s works‚ because he often mentions the different ways things can be perceived‚ and uses the perspectives of characters
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