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THE SONNET
THEMES AND LANGUAGE
The traditional theme of sonnet is love and desire for a lady who cannot return to poet's love
It leads the poet to madness and despair
Shakespeare introduced other themes like beauty decay and art
The populanty of the sonnet declined during the 18th century but was revived by the Romanti poets
PETRARCHAN SONNET
Consists of an octave (ABBA,ABBA)
It presents an issue or a situation
And a sestet (CDE CED or CDC DCD)
It consists the solution of the problem or personal reflections
Elizabethan sonneteers showed their ability in the use of Conceits
A conceit is an elaborate extended metaphor
During the last decades of Elizabeth's reign most of the sonnet collections were after a woman
Queen Elizabeth I was referred by poets as " Cynthia" and " the faerie Queene"
THE GOLDEN AGE OF POETRY
The Renaissance is considered the "golden age" of poetry
Because of songs and sonnets
The sonnet came from Italy
Its innovation is attributed to Iacopo da Lentin in the first half of the 13th century
The form reached its greatest expression with the Italian poet Petrarch
Whose Canzoniere became the model for all the European Renaissance poets
SHAKESPAREAN SONNET
It divided into three quatrains and a couplet
The poet can use the quatrains to present a theme and draw a conclusion in the final couplet
Sir Thomas Wyalt and Henry Howard Earl of Surrey,introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England
Translating Petrarch's sonnets into English but changed the ryhme scene into ABBA ABBA CDDC EE
The ryhme scheme of the Shakespearen sonnet became ABAB CDCD EFEF GG