ENG 261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Blank Verse, Petrarch, Il Canzoniere
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Elaboration of code (laura = gold, saintliness, poetic achievement) Try to love in a spiritual fashion - goal of pretrarchism. Perfection of english sonnet form or shakespearian sonnet form. (3 quatrains and couplet, abab, cdcd, efef, gg) Unrhymed iambic pentameter, becomes dominate verse form. Collection of sonnets that carried on petrarchan. Tottel"s miscellany ( songs and sonnets ) - 271 poems. Wyatt - 90 poems (better of the two) The long love that in my thought doth harbor. Last syllable is unstressed (common italian theme) They free from me, that sometime did me seek . With naked foot stalking in my chamber . Thoughts to be a poem about ann bolin. For he who sows to his own esh will from the esh reap corruption; but he who sows to the spirit will from the spirit reap eternal life - galatians. Idea, beloved, image, proper loving = reading.
