Sonnets
Have 14 lines, specific rhyme scheme, and the meter is iambic pentameter
Sonnets are always about.
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Love, death, immorality (nature)
What are the three types of Sonnets?
Petrarchan/Italian, Shakespearean, and Spenserian
What is an allegory?
It has two levels of meaning: literal and symbolic. It also has character abstractions (a character that represents an abstract quality EX: Freedom, or Innocence)
Who is the author of Whoso List to Hunt?
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sonnet Type of Whoso List to Hunt?
Petrarchan / Italian
Term of Whoso List to Hunt?
Allegory
Octave Summary of Whoso List to Hunt?
The man is hunting a deer and is obsessed with it, even though it is pointless
Sestet Summary of Whoso List to Hunt?
Even if he caught the deer, he would get killed since it is in the kings forest and those who poach in the king's forest die
Literal vs.
Symbolic meaning in Whoso List to Hunt:
The deer represents Anne Boleyne (Henry VIII's mistress) and every man wanted her.
If the sonnet doesn't have a set title, what is one to do?
Write the first line
Sonnet type of My love is like to ice, and I to fire
Spenserian
Author of My love is like to ice, and I to fire
Edmund Spenseer
Term in My love is like to ice, and I to fire
Paradox
Paradox:
Truth that seems to contradict itself
Q1 Summary of My love is like to ice, and I to fire
Fire can't melt ice makes it colder *His passion makes her not want him more, and have less to do with him
Q2 summary of My love is like to ice, and I to fire
The more she doesn't want him and disregards him, he more he shows love for her
Q3 Summary of my love is like to ice and i to fire
He thinks it is interesting that the more he chases and longs for her, the most she doesn't want to be with him. The attitude isn't negative towards her.
Couplet of my love is like to ice and i to fire
The power of love changes the nature of someone and the sour of nature
The turn of My love is like to ice, and I to fire is located where?
B/w Q3 and the couplet
Turn
Change in the poem
Amoretti
Little love poems or "little cupids"
Apostrophes and Stella author?
Sir Phillip Sidney
First four lines summary of Apostrophes and Stella
The moon is sad (he thinks) because it is in love. It is pale and silent, which is how the author concurs this.
He also deduces that the moon is in a "bad relationship."
Last four lines of the octave summary: Apostrophes and Stella
Because he is well acquainted with love, he can recognize that the moon is in a bad relationship because he's been there.
The turn in Apostrophes and Stella is where?
B/w the octave and the sestet
Sestet summary of Apostrophes and Stella
He is talking to the moon bitterly against beautiful women who know they're beautiful and they are ungrateful. Beautiful women are ungrateful and mean.
True love is stupidity.
The term of Apostrophes and Stella
Apostrophe
Apostrophe
Addressing an inanimate object that can't speak back
My Mistress' Eyes author
Shakespeare
Sonnet type of My Mistress' Eyes
Shakespearean
Q1 Summary of My Mistress' Eyes
He is not insulting his mistress, he's accurately and truthfully describing her appearance
Q2 Summary of My Mistress' Eyes
Same as Q1
Q3 Summary of My Mistress' Eyes
If he's not looking up to her, then he's not putting her on a pedestal. He is saying his view of her is totally realistic
Couplet Summary of My Mistress' Eyes
She is as just as special to him as the other women who have had their beauty exaggerated
Belied
Someone "be lying"
Let me not to the marriage author:
Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage sonnet type:
Shakespearean
Q1 Summary of Let me not to the marriage
Love doesn't change, nor does it give into temptation if it is TRUE LOVE
Q2 Summary of Let me not to the marriage
Love isn't measurable. It is priceless and durable.
It guides you in the right direction and lasts forever
Q3 Summary of Let me not to the marriage
Beauty and youth my be affected by time, but true love isn't - it lasts forever
Couplet summary of Let me not to the marriage
Everything that he has written is true
That time of year author
Shakespeare
That time of year sonnet type
Shakespearean & the rhyme scheme is the same
That time of year Q1 Summary
He is comparing the last years of his life to a tree going dormant in the winter
That time of year Q2 summary
Comparing his age to the end of a day and comparing death to sleep
Q3 Summary of That time of year
Comparing his life to a fire dying (loss of youth)
Turn of That time of year
B/w Q3 and couplet
That time of year Couplet Summary
He is speaking to the reader saying that he will not be around much longer. The speaker recognizes the reader's strong love because she continues to spend time with him even though she knows that he is dying. *We don't know exactly who the poem is written to.
Rhyme scheme of Petrarchan/Italian
ABBA ABBA CDE (in some pattern)
Petrarchan/Italian contains....
Octave (8 line stanzas) and sestet (6 line stanza)
Shakespearean rhyme scheme
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Shakespearean contains....
3 Quatrains (4 line stanzas) and 1 couplet (pair of rhyming lines)
Spenserian rhyme scheme
ABAB BCBC CDCD EE
Spenserian contains....
3 quatrains and a couplet
