EN 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Edmund Spenser, Sonnet 18, Sprezzatura
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Thinking of the beloved or person being talked about in the poem as a real person rather than an object. Petrarchan sonnet rhyme scheme abba abba (octave) cdecde (setset) Shakespearean sonnet 14 lines fixed metre (ends in a rhyming couplet) iambic pentameter. Iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl, spondee, pyrrhic, volta (turn), sprezzatura (to conceal effort or to make something seem effortless) Anything can talk about the ideal sydney"s argument. Like as a huntsman (edmund spenser), amoretti 64 vs. other poems for this week (sonnet 18) In these 2 poems, women are submissive/to be owned or possessed. Agency is assumed to be male; women are looked at as passive. An extended simile or metaphor often comparing two very different things/ideas. 258 (about time passing/slowing down of time) -> The turn (volta) is at the last rhyming couplet. There"s something here that can defy time -> if you have children.
