ITA200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lyric Poetry, Il Canzoniere, Incipit
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Epic: poet becomes a representative of society: tone is one to many (extrovert), deals with the tale/story. Everything happens on the access of time: verbs. Lyric: tone: one to one, (introvert), short deals with images. Canzoniere (366 poems) 365 +1, the # of a year. Petrarch- im too much in love to be christian, he intensifies this feeling of being a good christian or a good lover. The canzioniere- progression, stand still position of ambiguity. Lyric poems do not have a tile so you refer to them by the first line, called: incipit- meaning the beginning-the first line of a poem. All of the first lines of the poems organized in order in the index. Classical tradition- 12 is connected to unity of the year. Christian-number 10 is 3x3 times one, symbols of the trinity. He blends both traditions the full year is counted in days not months, numbers were symbolic of a sense of unity.
