ENGLISH 3R06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Petrarchan Sonnet, Quatrain, Syllogism

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 3R06
• Professor: Professor Silcox

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This sequence"s characters: (cid:498)this poem is about . (cid:499) (cid:498)this poem means . (cid:499) Look for the implications as to how the author is trying to get you to experience the moment, feeling, or poem. 1st and 3rd quatrain he is offering negative definitions of what love is. 2nd quatrain presents an illustration of what true love is. 16th c. sailor-> uses the stars to find a way. They were trying to figure out longitude and latitude-> they had one figured out but no the other. He is trying to trick you but wants you to notice that he wants to trick you. As proof of definition of what love is-> or what we think we know. Tone: anger, frustration, hard imagery, self- defeating, energetic, but negative. We"re grass that he cuts down with his reaper. Is a syllogism-> if a then b then c. He is saying he never wrote or never loved.