You might find it helpful to make a list of them for yourself. I am going to use quite a few literary terms when writing about the sonnet. The way to understand the sonnet is by separating it into two parts: form (rhyme and rhythm) and content (what is it about). (Hence why a Shakespearean sonnet is also known as a English sonnet.) For the past nine hundred, the sonnet has become the most recognizable form of poem.
However, Shakespeare revitalizes the sonnet form, making it uniquely English. By the time (he writes them around 1593 and publishes them in1609) Shakespeare writes his sonnets, of which there are 154, the sonnet tradition was waning. In England during the 16th century, the sonnet became the most popular form of poem to write, Poets, such as Sir Phillip Sydney, Edmund Spenser, Lady Mary Wroth, wrote long sonnet sequences that would often tell the story of an unrequited lover’s desperate pleas to the object of their affections. Their work in the sonnet form inspired that of early English sonneteers, Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard who are considered to have written the first English sonnets. However, the Italian Renaissance poets Dante and Petrarch were the ones who really popularized this poetic form. The sonnet originated in Italy during the 12th century. So this week we are the beginning of our exploration of the sonnet, considered to be the workhorse of love poetry.
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