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Title: Sonnets


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Sonnets
  • The most popular form of poetry during the
    Renaissance period.

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Francesco Petrarch
  • Creator of the sonnet form
  • Wrote a series of 366 poems Canzoniere devoted to
    his love Laura
  • Established the blazon a poetic inventory of a
    womans physical features
  • her lips are like rubies, her eyes are stars

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Petrarch and Laura
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His love Laura de Noves
  • 6 years his junior, Petrarch saw Laura at church
    and fell in love at first sight
  • She was already married, so she could not return
    his love
  • Although Petrarch never actually spoke to her, he
    carried on his love in poetry even past her death
    on April 6th (the same day he first saw her)

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The Petrarchan Sonnet
  • 14 lines
  • Rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
  • Volta (turn) occurs between the octave (1st 8
    lines) and the sextet (last 6 lines)
  • Usually about unrequited love, can include the
    blazon

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Sonnet 64 from the Canzoniere
  • When Love within her lovely face appearsnow and
    again among the other ladies,as much as each is
    less lovely than shethe more my wish I love
    within me grows.
  • I bless the place, the time and hour of the
    daythat my eyes aimed their sights at such a
    height,and say 'My soul, you must be very
    gratefulthat you were found worthy of such great
    honour.

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Sonnet 64 cont.
  • From her to you comes loving thought that
    leads,as long as you pursue, to highest
    good,esteeming little what all men desire
  • there comes from her all joyous honestythat
    leads you by the straight path up to
    Heavenalready I fly high upon my hope.'

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Shakespeare and the English Sonnet
  • The sonnet came to England but had to change
    because of the rhyme scheme
  • English sonnet 3 quatrains (4 lines) and a
    couplet (2 lines)
  • Rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
  • Shakespeare expanded the subject matter to
    include life, having children, war, death

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Edmund Spenser and the Sonnet
  • English poet, most known for his epic poem
    devoted to Queen Elizabeth I, The Faerie Queene.
  • Same format as Shakespearean Sonnet, but
    different rhyme scheme ABAB BCBC CDCD EE
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