After realizing that you all need to study for the vocab quiz tomorrow, we started our next unit involving poetry. First up, the legendary Francisco Petrarcha and his muse Laura. Over class, we started to note religious motifs, repetitive symbols, elevating diction, and mythological allusions within two of his poems. But, we were not finished with just analyzing literary elements today! With poetry, recognizing structure is necessary for every poetical analysis.
The Italian sonnet rhyme scheme features the great band ABBA ABBA and then has a combination of CDE CDE or some related form. Check out more examples of the sestet rhyme scheme here: http://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm. Also of note is the volta and its dividing turn between the octave and sestet.
For class tomorrow, close read the third poem for discussion. After our quiz, we will be spending the hour with Petrarch and his other poems.
A domani!
"Quiz tomorrow" *cries internally*
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