Amoretti Sonnets - 34, 67, 77
IGNOU MEG-1 Block 2 Unit 10 : Amoretti Sonnets
Amoretti Sonnets - 34, 67, 77
The sonnet is fundamentally a short lyric, a stylised fourteen line poem that developed in Italy in the Middle Ages.
There are broadly three styles of sonnets:
the Petrarchan, which is the most common, consisting of an octave and a sestet;
the Spenserian, which has four quatrains and a couplet, rhyming abab bcbc cdcd ee; and
the Shakespearian, which follows the Spenserian line scheme of four quatrains and a couplet, but differs in its rhyme scheme (abab cdcd efef gg).
writing about love in English poetry that was fundamentally chivalric, based on feudal themes and ideas, and centered on the figure of the beloved as mistress of the poet.
Courtly Love:
There were several reasons for the emergence of this particular I . ideology of love. Medieval Europe in the early part of the last millennium was controlled by feuding war-lords, protected and su~~ounded by families of knigl~ts who owed allegiance entirely to their respective barons. One means of forming alliances amongst these lords was through~ marriages between their houses. These ma~riages of convenience meant that the lady of the castle was often not very close to the lord, and even neglected by her husband. Since the castle populations were predominantly male, with few women, the lady inevitably came to be the recipient of the amorous attention of the many knights and courtiers. The passions thus evoked were telus often to by the opposite demands of fidelity to the lord and desire for the beloved.
The entire sonnet sequence may be split roughly into three movements, or phases of passion:
The first section (sonnets 1-36) is largely in the mode of complaint, and sees the mistress as tyrannical and his own love as oppressive.
The second section (sonnets 37-69) refigures the lover and his mistress in more exploratory, and therefore more with the lover appearing more aware of his mistress as self a Spenser's Poetry feeling, thinking and speaking subject of passion.
The last section (sonnets 70-87) is reversal of the first phase: it sees the poet-lover as successful in his amorous enterprise, and the terrells of relation change, toward the subordination of the mistress' desire and will of the lover.
Sonnet 34:
Petrarch and type
Idea of Be Loved as a star to guide him through the seas of life.
Light is hidden from the cloud leaving rendering now in Dismay and darkness.
He is hoping when the storm passes love will shine again as his guiding star.
Sonnet 67:
Petrarch and plus elizabethan version
Setting of hunting deer is beloved [she] Huntsman is the poet
Sonnet 77:
Not patriarch but another Italian poet described by love’s breast as autumnal fruits- legendary Golden apples, so Spencer tried to do the same
This kind of description is not sexual or physical beauty for its own sake but to force a connection between physical beauty and spiritual
It’s virtue it's very sacred
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