Renaissance Poetry
Humanism
writers and artists
synthesize greek classics
with christianity
Sonnet
14 line muscial rhyme
used to express
emotions
Iambic Pentameter
5 meters with
unstressed and stressed
syllables
Petrarchan Sonnet
8 lines = octave
abbaabba
6 lines = sestet
cdecde or cdcdcd
John Milton
octave - speeker has a
problem
sestet - solves the
problem
Sonnet XIX: When I Consider How my Light is Spent
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide,
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts: who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed
And post o'er land and ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait."
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Shakespearean
Sonnet
3 quotains (4lines)
1 couplet (2 lines)
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My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
quatians - expresses
same ideas
couplet - wraps it up
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Spenserian Sonnet
last 2 lines conclude
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"Sonnet LIV"
Of this World's theatre in which we stay,
My love like the Spectator idly sits,
Beholding me, that all the pageants play,
Disguising diversely my troubled wits.
Sometimes I joy when glad occasion fits,
And mask in mirth like to a Comedy;
Soon after when my joy to sorrow flits,
I wail and make my woes a Tragedy.
Yet she, beholding me with constant eye,
Delights not in my mirth nor rues my smart;
But when I laugh, she mocks: and when I cry
She laughs and hardens evermore her heart.
What then can move her? If nor mirth nor moan,
She is no woman, but a senseless stone.
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first 12 lines tell about
the story or the problem
Sir Thomas
Wyatt
brought the italian
sonnet to england
ambassador to
henry VIII
first book
published 15 years
after his death
he is hunting
something that he
cant catch
Summary
Metaphor
the deer is really
anne boleyn
Who So
List to
Hunt
Contradictory
Images
wild
tame
Rhyme
Scheme
and Type
of Sonnet
abbaabbacdecde
Petrarchan sonnet
Edmund Spencer
invented the
spenserian sonnet
buried next to
chaucer in the
poets corner
Summary
Summary
he loves
her but
she doesnt
love him
their love
will be
forever
Metapgore
shes ice
and hes
fire
served as secretary
to the earl of
leicester
Sonnet
30
Contradictory
Images
Fire; ice
Rhyme
Scheme
and Type
of Sonnet
ababbcbccdcd
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Spencerian
Sonnet
Metaphore
comparing
her name
in the sand
ot her life
Sonnet
75
Contradictory
Images
die; live
Rhyme
Scheme
and Type
of Sonnet
ababbcbcc
dcdee
spencerian
sonnet
Christopher
Marlowe
he was a spy
arrested for making
controversial
speeches
stabbed to death
Summary
he want
this girl to
live with
him
Tone
happy
Influence
The
Passionate
Shepherd
to His Love
Pastoral
Poetry
woods and
mountains
his heart
Sir Walter
Raleigh
convicted of
treason and
sentenced to death
he traveled to
south america
last voyage was a
disaster
Summary
she wants to,
but she
doesnt know
for sure
Tone
sarcastic
Influence
The
Nymph's
Reply to the
Shepherd
Anti-Pastoral
Poetry
soon break,
soon wither,
soon
forgotten
her mind and
ideas
Robert Herrick
he was the vicar of
dean prior in
devonshire
cromwell's army
replaced him
when charles II was
restored to power
so was herrick
Summary
live your
life to the
fullest
Carpe
Diem
Sun
Reference
the
glorious
lamp of
heaven
To the
Virgins, to
Make Much
of Time
Figures of
Speech
time is
flying
get
married
while you
can
Andrew Marvell
educated at
Cambridge
from 1659 to his
death he served
in parliment
most of his work
went unpublished
during his life
Summary
you cannot
stop time so
make the
most of it
Carpe
Diem
Sun
Reference
we cant
make our
sun stand
still
To His
Coy
Mistress
Figures of
Speech
he wants to
look into her
eyes for 100
years
the grave's a
fine and
private
place