The Sonnet
Hector Alvarado
Created on May 5, 2020
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Transcript
The Sonnet in the English Renaissance
Index
› Origins› Structure
› Content Representatives
The Sonnet: Origin
The Sonnet
Italy
- Little Song (Sonneto)
- Early 14th Century Perefected form
- Petrarch
Conventions
- Poet addresses and admires a distant woman
- Exagerated praise and description
- poet's pain
- contradictory ideas (fire and ice)
- eternal youth
- Love
England
- Early 16th Century
- Sir Thomas Wyatt
- Translation of Petrarch's Sonnets
- Mid 16th century final version (Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey)
- meter & quatrains
The Sonnet: Structure
Rhyme
Structure
Italian (Petrarch Sonnet)
English (Shakespearen Sonnet)
Sonnet Structure
The Sonnet: Content
Content
› Mortality / Death› Religious Devotion› Self-Deprecation
› Love› Time› Change
The Sonnet: Representatives
Humanism
'I am a citizen of no place, everywhere I am a stranger"
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