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Renaissance poetry

Renaissance poetry. Love, Time, and Death. The development of the sonnet. Renaissance poets expressed their ideas in sonnet, a verse form that had developed in Italy during the late Middle Ages. Derived from the Italian word sonetto meaning “little song.”

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Renaissance poetry

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  1. Renaissance poetry Love, Time, and Death

  2. The development of the sonnet • Renaissance poets expressed their ideas in sonnet, a verse form that had developed in Italy during the late Middle Ages. • Derived from the Italian word sonetto meaning “little song.” • A sonnet is a fourteen-line lyric poem written in iambic pentameter: ten syllables for each line into five pairs.

  3. Italian sonnet • Perfected by Petrarca(Petrarch) • The Petrarchan sonnet has two parts: an eight line section (octave) with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba • Followed by a six line section (sestet) with a rhyme scheme of cdecde OR cdcdcd. • The octave establishes the reader’s situation. The sestet resolves, draws conclusions about, or expresses a reaction to the situation. • The transition from the octave to the sestet is known as the turn.

  4. English Sonnet • Henry Howard-Earl of Surrey changed the rhyme scheme of the Italian sonnet to adapt it to the rhyme-poor English language. • This was perfected by William Shakespeare • Rhyme Scheme Ababcdcdefefgg • Three quatrains and a couplet • The three quatrains express related ideas and the couplet sums up the poet’s message.

  5. Spenserian sonnet • Edmund Spenser developed the Spenserian Sonnet • Like the Shakespearean sonnet, the Spenserian sonnet has three quatrains and a couplet. • It differs by using an interlocking rhyme scheme: ababbcbccdcdee

  6. Pastoral and (Anti) Pastoral Poetry • Viewed alternately as a genre, mode, or convention in poetry (as well as in literature generally, art, and music), the pastoral tradition refers to a lineage of creative works that idealize rural life and landscapes, while the term "pastoral" refers to individual poems or other works in the tradition. • One of the most well-known love poems in the English language, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe, is a pastoral. Throughout the poem, the speaker describes the beauty of the landscape as a means for wooing his love interest • Published in 1599, six years after Marlowe's death, the poem inspired popular "anti-pastoral" works, most famously "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" (1600) by Sir Walter Raleigh. • "Poetic Form: Pastoral." Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 21 Oct. 2013.

  7. Carpe Diem Poetry • “Carpe diem," popularized as "seize the day," although more literally translated as "pluck the day," referring to the gathering of moments like flowers, suggesting the fleeting quality of life, as in Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," which begs readers to live life to its full potential, singing of the fleeting nature of life itself: • Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,   Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today   Tomorrow will be dying. • "Carpe Diem: Poems for Making the Most of Time." Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 21 Oct. 2013.

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