Sir Philip Sidney(Loving in Truth, and Fain in Verse My Love to Show)- Ambassador to Italy. Brought Petrarchan/ Italian sonnet back to England.
"Loving in Truth, and Fain in my verse..."
Man in love, fighting to express his feelings, also experiencing writer's block
Looked at other's work to seek inspiration didn't work
"Thus great with child to speak..."line 12- metaphor within metaphor- pregnant with child + child= words and ideas
Muse(line 14) could be his love or a source of inspiration
"...some pleasure of my pain"line 2- double entendre- pain put into poem + pain of unrequited love
Repetition P, S, F, ans B sounds
Ms. Garliss handed out print-out of 2 poems.
"Whoso List to hunt" Sir Thomas Wyatt
- Found rhyme scheme
- Slant Rhyme- Imperfect Rhyme. ex. wind & mind.
- Petrarchan Sonnet
- Octet(8) - Problem/situation
- Sonnet(6)- resolution
- Iambic
- Tries to catch Hind(deer) and wind(uncatchable)
- Caesar= king. Boleyn belonged to king + who would choose Wyatt over King
- Line 14- She may be teasing him + not as nice as she seems(coniving)
- Graven(lines 11+12)- foreshadowing her beheading
"Batter My Heart"- John Donne
- Doesn't flow
- Cerrated, inconsistent style
- Ravish/chaste(line 14)-antithesis
- No solution sestet
- Reason vs. Faith
Steps to explication
1. Scan it- rhyme, meter, type of poem
2. Thesis- 3 controlling Ideas with 3 sub-ideas each.
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