ENGL 2300 Lecture 3: Petrarch & Wyatt Sonnets

• School: Carleton University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 2300
• Professor: Siobhain Bly- Calkin

Document Summary

Not all so(cid:374)(cid:374)ets a(cid:271)out lo(cid:448)e, so(cid:373)e o(cid:374) (cid:396)eligious de(cid:448)otio(cid:374)s (cid:894)joh(cid:374) do(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:895)/(cid:859)o(cid:272)(cid:272)asio(cid:374)al(cid:859) so(cid:374)(cid:374)ets. Specific lyrics, 14 lines in iambic pentameter (unit of poetry meter- 5 (cid:373)et(cid:396)i(cid:272)al (cid:858)feet(cid:859)(cid:895) Iamb (cid:894)g(cid:396)eek(cid:895): (cid:373)et(cid:396)i(cid:272)al patte(cid:396)(cid:374) of (cid:858)u(cid:374)st(cid:396)essed/st(cid:396)essed(cid:859) o(cid:396) (cid:858)(cid:449)eak/st(cid:396)o(cid:374)g(cid:859) Drawing on regular patterns models of the classics {latin poetry and syllable patterns} Maintains regularity pf pattern but also occasionally different foot in sonnet. : group of syllables forming a metrical unit. Volta: {a (cid:858)tu(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:859)} i(cid:374) (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374), (cid:374)e(cid:449) e(cid:373)otio(cid:374) o(cid:396) idea i(cid:374)t(cid:396)odu(cid:272)ed. 3 quatrains {4-line pattern} + 1 couplet {2-line pattern} Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc cdcd ee {rhyme links to previous stanza} Trained to be a lawyer, established himself as a writer. E(cid:395)ue(cid:374)(cid:272)e of sho(cid:396)t poe(cid:373)s (cid:894)pet(cid:396)a(cid:396)(cid:272)h(cid:859)s lo(cid:448)e fo(cid:396) a (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:374)a(cid:373)es lau(cid:396)a; (cid:373)a(cid:396)(cid:396)ied (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374) of several younger years and died of the plague) 1327: petrarch saw her for the first time on the same date that she died years later. Literary love and used her as an inspiration.