EN 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: To His Coy Mistress, Sonnet 130, Sprezzatura
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Blazon - comparing physical features to elevated objects; an extended series of metaphorical comparisons. Comparing a body part to the physical world. Anti-blazon: sonnet 130 - my mistress"s eyes are nothing like the sun. Conceit - an extended metaphor that drives the entire or a part of a text. Taking something well worked and do it better yourself. Like a huntsman: love is a hunt; women are to be hunted, man is hunter. Male is the powerful, active predator, whereas the female is the chased, the prey, that is what should be caught. This idea underpins the blazon; the beloved is there to be described; to be controlled and compartmentalized by the male. Elizabethan view as love as an ideal. Poetry is able to portray a perfection in both frame and content. Love achieves its highest form only in the ideal. The physical is downplayed, or placed in the form of art as the ideal.
