Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Elizabethan Poetry (1558-1660)
- POETRY:
- INFLUENCED BY CLASSICAL
MODELS AND GENRES
- FULL OF MYTHOLOGICAL
REFERENCES TO THE GODS, MYTH AND ANTIQUITY
- iNFLUENCE OF PETRARCH, ESTABLISHED THE
LANGUAGE OF LOVE, VENERATIONS OF THE LADY
AS THE SYMBOL OF PURITY AND VIRTUE
- EMPHASIS ON DECORUM FOLLOWING THE RULES OF
THE DIFFERENT LITERARY GENRES
- RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE WAS
ALL.-PERSASIVE (EVERYWHERE)
- PREOCUPATION OF TIME AS A DESTRUCTIVE FORCE
- MUSICALITY
- PASTORAL AND
SATIRICAL
- THE SONNET
- CONVENTIONS ESTABLISHED BY PETRARCH
- A SERIE OF 14-LINE SONNETS, EXPLORING CONTRARIES STATES OF
FEELINGS EXPERIENCED AS A LOVE DESIRES AND IDEALIZES THE
LADY
- THEMES
- LADY'S GREAT BEAUTY
- HER POWER OVER THE POET
- HER CRUELTY TO HIM
- HIS SLEEPLESSNESS
- THE FIRE OF HIS LOVE AND THE ICE OF HER CHASTITY
- THE PAIN OF ABSENCE
- THE RENUNCIATION OF LOVE
- THE ETERNITY AND ORIGINALITY OF HIS POEMS
- ITALIAN FORM
- OCTAVE (2 QUATRAINS) AND SEXTET;
RHYMING: ABBA ABBA CDECDE. THE VOLTA
IN LINE 9 (BEGINNING SEXTET)
- ENGLISH FORM
- 3 QUATRAINS AND 1 COUPLET, RHYMING: ABAB
CDCD EF EF GG. THE VOLTA IN THE 3RD QUATRAIN
OR IN THE ENDING STROPHE