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sonnets

sonnets. From sonnetta or “little song”. Definition(s). 14 lines of poetry with set rhyme Usually iambic pentameter Italian sonnets = 11 syllables/line French sonnets = 12 syllables/line ( aka Alexandrine ) Meant to be sung Usually about [ courtly ] love. Some Sonneteers.

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  1. sonnets Fromsonnetta or “little song”

  2. Definition(s) • 14 lines of poetry with set rhyme • Usually iambic pentameter • Italian sonnets = 11 syllables/line • French sonnets = 12 syllables/line (akaAlexandrine) • Meant to be sung • Usually about [courtly] love

  3. Some Sonneteers Petrarch(1304 - 1374) Wyatt(1503 - 1542) Spenser(1552 - 1599) Sidney(1554 - 1586) Shakespeare (1564? - 1616) Donne(1571 ca. - 1631) Milton(1608 - 1674)

  4. Sonnet Sequences Many sonneteers wrote in “cycles” or sequences Sidney Astophil & Stella (1580) Edmund Spenser Amoretti (1595) Shakespeare (Dark Lady)? John Donne Songs & Sonnets

  5. Francesco Petrarch 1304 - 1374 Poet laureate of Rome (1341) Wrote his sonnets to the fair-haired, blue-eyed “Laura”

  6. Petrarchan or Italian • Octave • (abba abba) closed rhyme • Problem or question • Sestet • (cde cde or cdc cdc) interlocking rhyme • Answer or (re)solution

  7. Thomas Wyatt 1503 – 1542 Lover of Anne Boleyn before she married Henry VIII

  8. Edmund Spenser 1552 - 1599 Attended Cambridge University: B.A. (1573) and M.A. (1576) Faerie Queene greatest work

  9. Spenserian • 3 quatrains (abab bcbc cdcd) • Problem or question • Couplet (ee) • Answer or (re)solution

  10. William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616 Major playwright Venus & Adonis The Rape of Lucrece

  11. Shakespearean • 3 quatrains of interlocking • (abab cdcd efef) • Problem or question • 1 couplet • (gg) • Anser or (re)solution

  12. Hardin Craig’s Groupings (i) Generally … • 1-126 addressed to highborn patron • 127-152 addressed to “Dark Lady” • 127 not a true sonnet • Some say 145 is not Shakespeare’s

  13. Hardin Craig’s Groupings (ii) • 1-17: Addressed to a noble youth, urging him to marry and reproduce • 18-26: Variety of themes • 27-32 & 48-50: Poet is absent from friend

  14. Hardin Craig’s Groupings (iii) • 56-58: Friend is absent from poet • 33-35: Foreshadow an estrangement caused by fault in poet’s friend • 38-42: Tell specifically of the fault alluded to in 33-35

  15. Hardin Craig’s Groupings (iv) • 53-77: the power of loveand the beauty within us • 71-74: a vision of the poet’s own death • 78-86: rival poet sequence

  16. Hardin Craig’s Groupings (v) • 88-93: continuing the theme of estrangement; loss of love and of patronage • 94-96: obscure, but on a friend’s fault • 92-99: theme of absence

  17. Hardin Craig’s Groupings (vi) • 100-104: an apology for a long silence • 104-125: celebration of beauty, virtue, renewal of protests of eternal faithfulness

  18. Other Groupings • Tucker Brooke’s • Charles Wolff [http://members.tripod.com/~charleswolff/ROTS/r3.html]

  19. Finis

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