ENGL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Physical Intimacy, Blazon, Sonnet 129
31 May 2016
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Wordsworth : nuns fret not ; scorn not the sonnet . The poet can find freedom in confinement (l8) Petrarchan sonnet : abba abba cde cde. Sense of love relation that isn"t going anywhere. Amplified in repetition of 1st and last line. Poet representing himself as bonded (petrarchan sonnet) Wyatt pushes petrarchan sonnet to shakespearean sonnet. Elizabethans : can be whoever you want to be. Queen elizabeth used the chart in language to make her image seen as the petrarchan lover: the person everyone wants, but that no one can have. Language he uses = kind of language he"s against in the defense of poetry . Idea that poetry = representational of something internal, and not from other poets = something new at the time. He sees stella, and that"s where his poetry comes from. All very well to look at her, but not enough. Trying to write a love relationship that isn"t complicated.
