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Title: Vernacular Renaissance Poetry


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Vernacular Renaissance Poetry
  • The Sonnet

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Origins
  • Sonnet means little song in Italian, but it is
    a precise lyric form.
  • Originated among Sicilian court poets of the 13th
    century, influenced by the love poetry of the
    Provencal troubadours
  • Reached its highest expression in Petrarch's
    "Canzonieri," a sequence of 365 love poems
    addressed to "Laura," his idealized beloved.
  • Thomas Wyatt Henry Surrey, introduced the
    sonnets to England in the early 16th century

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The Petrarchan Sonnet
  • Composed of 14 lines, usually in iambic
    pentameter
  • It has a particular rhyming scheme for
    abba,abba,cde,cde
  • Divided into two parts
  • the octave (eight lines), used to present a
    thesis, an argument
  • the ninth line is called the volta (it. turn),
    generally signaled by words such as but, yet,
    then, or exclamations.
  • the sestet (six lines) gives the conclusion,
    reason, or counter-argument for what was in the
    octave

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The English Sonnet
  • Wyatt's sonnet, The long love that in my thought
    doth harbor (1.527) Surrey's Love, that doth
    reign and live within my thought (1.571) are both
    based on the same Petrarchan original.
  • The English poets started to play subtly with the
    sonnet structure for different effects
  • Sidney favoured a weakened volta in the 9th
    line, and a stronger one in the 13th
  • This developed into the final riming couplet of
    the Shakespearian sonnet
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