EN 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Edmund Spenser, Sonnet 130, Petrarch
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What makes a good love poem? o o o. Oten about immortality-we tend to think of love as immortal. Expression of the speaker"s own emoions (interplay between the beloved and trying to express ones own emoions) The sonnet: *recap* 14 lines, ixed rhyme scheme, iambic pentameter (ixed meter) o o o. Rhyme scheme breaks down into two broad categories: petrarchan or. Each quatrain usually deals with one speciic idea/argument and then the rhyming couplet generally either sums up the argument/proves it/ofers a refutaion. 16th century noions of poetry in england: o o o o o. It is poetry"s job to provide examples of perfecion that the reader can then strive to emulate. There is a social morality to poetry (it is there to make us beter) Sprezzatura: to conceal efort (to make something seem efortless) The ideal was to create diicult pieces of poetry but to make it seem as though it was efortless.
