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Love Poetry:
§ Speaks from a specific point to a general
§ Aspects of love
§ Emotional
§ Transcendence
§ Motivational
§ Strict demarcation between unrequited love and successful love, focus on
§ Sweet sorrow
§ Lover’s complaint; male lover’s complaint
§ Take love away from quotidian and make it transcendent
§ Love is eternal and love lasts
Definition of Love:
§ The disposition or state of feeling
§ Attachment, empathy, Abstract emotion/feeling
§ Use OED definition
Sonnet:
§ What is required/necessary for a Sonnet
• Iambic Pentameter
• Fixed rhyme scheme
• 2 types of Sonnets (discussed in class)
§ Petrarchan Sonnet
• Octave: abba abba;
• The octave functions as a complete thought; a paragraph
• Sestet: cde cde
• Petrarchan Sonnet sets up a premise that it either affirms or refutes
• Volta not necessary
§ Shakespearean Sonnet
• 3 quatrains linked together by rhymes
§ 3 quatrains to setup premise
§ Couplet denying or affirming argument
• Volta might occur in line 9 (less common)
• Sonnets forms asks for logical explication
§ Argument summing it or denying it
§ Types of meters
• Iambic
• Trochee
• Dactyl
• Anapest
• Spondee
• Pyrrhic
§ Volta: a shift indicated by a direct statement saying no, but, yet
• If it happens
§ Line 9 for a Petrarchan
§ At the couplet for a Shakespearean
§ History of a Sonnet
• 13th Century Italian form
• Brought by Thomas Wyatt/Surrey (From Wyatt Reseth Here)
• Shakespeare continues tradition in 16th Century