ENGB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Petrarchan Sonnet, Sestet, Petrarch
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Lecture 5: shakespeare and the sonnet: renaissance/petrarch: secular frame of reference (1300-1700) Paper due next thursday: pick a poem that interests you and that has not been discussed in class/tutorial and is in the book. In many ways, these stories are of secular passion: wrote poems in a certain form known as the sonnet. Iambic pentameter is most common rhythm in shakespearean sonnets. Importance is that shakespeare is not a respectable noble upper class, but a commoner that made money by writing plays: class dimension edge in these poems, target audience for nobles, small circle of friends and simply forgotten about. Line 2: temperate suggests comfortable fitting: end-stopped rather than enjambed, where sense of phrasing stops, enjambment is where phrase spills over. Line 8: chance, nature, changing course summarizes the first part of poem. Line 9: volta lifting summer back to line 1. Line 11-(cid:1005)(cid:1006): sayi(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:374)trary to (cid:374)atural order that su(cid:373)(cid:373)er (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t fade a(cid:374)d (cid:271)eauty (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t decline.
