ENGL 431 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sonnet 144, Sonnet 130, Petrarchan Sonnet
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Anti-young man sonnet: a red ag, the dark woman is nothing like the sun/son. About reproduction: what makes the dark lady, dark, is that she isn"t the young man, anti-petrarchan. Rosey cheeks, gold hair, white breast: dark lady sonnets move away from that, black wires hair. Traditional loves would be weightless: she treads on the ground. His love for her is still rare: he discounts what he says in the ending couplet. My love for her is equal to the petrarchan love: she is ordinary but our love is extraordinary. Poetry commenting on the nature of poetry: this poem is a slippage between what he knows to be true and what he thinks. An incongruity: the crack grows by sonnet 150, not as misogynistic. Sonnet 144: both the dark lady and the young man. Wednesday, november 14, 2018: very dr. faustis, the young man is associated with comfort an the dark lady is associated with despair.
