EN 1006 Lecture Notes - Quatrain, Petrarch, Courtly Love
17 Apr 2013
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What are some similes: her beauty is naturalized; read through nature that liken her to flowers. The conceit spencer uses in the sonnet is lover as garden": uses senses of touch and smell to evoke the beauty of the beloved. What are some of the formal aspects of a sonnet: 14 lines, usually an ayamic pentametor, rhyming couplets. Fixed verse form consisting of 14 lines that are five-foot iambics that rhyme. Reached highest forms of expression in 14th century in petrarch. These sonnets contributed to renaissance flowering of lyric poetry. Sonnets to laura treat a variety of moods and subjects, particularly intense psychological reactions to his beloved. Once the printing press was invented, petrarch"s poems became increasingly widespread. First -> octave states problem, asks question, expresses emotional tension. Rhyme scheme of sestet varies: cdecde, cdccdc or cdedce. Iamb a metrical unit of verse, having one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
