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Petrarchism (Characteristic features (A catalogue describing the beauty of…
Petrarchism
Characteristic features
A catalogue describing the beauty of the lady: coral lips, eyes like the sun/stars etc.
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the poem moves from describing the beloved into introspection, self-analysis, dissection of the speaker's feelings: a defining moment in the history of subjectivity
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English Petrarchism
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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
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John Donne
In the 17th century: increasingly, religious sonnets
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Typical devices
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antithesis
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind" (contrasting ideas)
Petrarchan conceits
elaborate extended metaphors, e.g. the lover as a storm-tossed ship
An important trope: The Narcissus Myth 
The Petrarchan lover creates an image of the beloved,a fiction, to serve his own ends. Narcissus --> model for artistic creation: what the poet exalts is in fact his own imaginative creation.
Petrarch creates a self-conscious, self-aware poetic language.
Political domension
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Queen Elisabeth used Petrarchism as a political tool. Queen Elisabeth used the “image” of the Virgin Mary, in a country, that had no longer icons (Anglican Church) and eventually turned herself into an icon.
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