Sonnets

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Renaissance Poetry

Recap from last week

Sonnets

What do you know about sonnets?

Edmund Spenser

• Spenser recommended scorched earth tactics to create famine. 
• A military strategy of burning or destroying crops or other resources that might be of use to an invading enemy force

Answer questions on Amoretti

1. What kind of sonnet is this? Mention three characteristics.

2. Who is the ‘I’ in line 1?

3. What is the ‘it’ in line 2?

4. What does ‘his’ in line 4 refer back to?

5. Who does ‘she’ in line 5 refer to?

6. Explain lines 5 – 8.

7. From line 9 the ‘I’ person of the first line takes up the conversation. What point does that person make in the last six lines?

The sonnet is

1. English because Spencer is Shakespeare's contemporary
2. English, because the rhyme scheme is ABABCDCDEFEFGG
3. Italian because the volta is after line 8
4. Italian, because it consists of 3 quatrains

What is the theme of Spencer's sonnet?

and Sonnet 130

What is the theme of sonnet 130?

What is the theme of Wordsworth's sonnet?

What is the theme of Rosetti's sonnet?

Questions

Questions