ENGL 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sonnet 130, Petrarchan Sonnet, Brown Hair
13 Jun 2016
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Appeal of sonnets - small form, manageable for startup writers, gives you a structure into which you can assert your own individuality. Take a prison cell and turn it into a trumpet. Expand it and make it do bigger and better things. Simultaneous empowerment and powerlessness in the hands of all- powerful queen. Sydney and spencer want to imagine a different kind of love. Important for spencer and milton - to represent a love that is still spiritual, intellectual. Physical intimacy does not degrade or debase that spiritual connection. What does it look like to reverse the situation, see the love experience from the woman"s perspective. Male is inconstant, and female is the model for constancy and steadfastness. But roth doesn"t just turn the tables on this; she focuses on love itself. Subjection is not to a male object of desire but cupid, god of love itself. John dunne also does interesting things with petrarchan love relationships.
