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18 Cards in this Set
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Sonnet |
A 14 line poem |
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Italian/ Petrarchan Sonnet |
ABBA ABBA CDE CDE (Two part division of thought with a turn) Octave, turn, sestet |
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English/ Shakespearean Sonnet |
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (Three quatrains and a closing couplet) |
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Spenserian Sonnet |
ABAB BCBC CDCD EE |
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Volta |
Turn (change in thought) |
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Petrarchan love poetry |
From the perspective of a male lover and his hopes and pains towards an unattainable lady. |
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Sonnet Sequence |
A group of sonnets thematically unified to create a long work, although each sonnet can also be read as a meaningful separate unit. |
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Miltonic turn |
A delayed turn |
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Written in the churchyard at Middleton in Sussex |
By Smith - Storm in the ocean becomes so powerful it comes in land and uproots coffins, spilling the bones into the ocean - At the end the author says they're jealous of the dead |
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Sonnets to Chris |
By John Berryman - Critiques love poetry in the form of Petrarchan love poetry - tries to come up with unique words and phrases - "fresh as a bubble breaks" - Italian sonnet - cloy - to do something until you no longer enjoy it |
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On the Sonnet |
By Keats - invents his own rhyme scheme/sonnet style - "keatsian" sonnet - Acknowledges conventional rhyme scheme and then deviates |
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The long love that in my thought doth harbour |
By Wyatt - love has left his heart and taken harbor on his face where it becomes visible - Turn (Italian sonnet) is when the poet retreats his love from his face - his woman teaches him to love and suffer - his master is Love |
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Love that doth reign and live within my thought |
By Surrey - often in his face his love can be seen - refers to love as a Lord - says that it's loves fault he should endure this pain - "sweet is the death" - more dramatic - Italian Sonnet |
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Astrophil and Stella |
By Sidney - He wants to write something to demonstrate his love to Stella but (turn) doesn't know how - poet reads a lot of poetry to try to inspire him but it doesn't work - Italian sonnet - Turn is at "but" |
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Amoretti |
By Spenser - Spenserian sonnet - the pages will tremble when held in the hand of the lover but to be held by her is a wonderful thing - the pages will be happy to be read by her - the loved one and poems have bathed in the fountain of Helecon (dedicated to the muses, where poetry originates) |
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Sonnets: 73 |
By Shakespeare - moments between one state and the next (ex. Fall about to be winter, sunset about to be night) - aware of his own mortality - 3 quatrains |
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Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room |
By Wordsworth - Italian sonnet with a miltonic/ delayed turn - talks about confinement in rooms and breaks free from poetrys confinement with enjambed lines - narrow room is the sonnet itself - a sonnet that is the preface for Wordsworth's collection of sonnets |
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On first looking into Chapman's Homer |
By Keats - Keats reads the Odyssey translated by Chapman for the first time - says the experience was like discovering a new planet or discovering the Pacific ocean - turn = "then" |
