Well, if you missed today's class, you missed out on all the technical components of Petrarchan Sonnets, how to break down a sonnet for structure and probable analysis opportunities, and how iambic pentameter works in a poem. In all of the classes, we read the first Petrarchan poem on pg. 1 for its literary elements, diction, tone, and theme. Then, we looked at the structure of his sonnets via "The Cross of Snow" (yes, it is an American poem, but we are at the mercy of translations for Petrarch!). Last, we returned back to the original poem to identify the Italian rhyme scheme (Grazie to Chiara for reading the poem for us in the way it is meant to be heard!) and determine how the octave and sestet operate.
For tomorrow, you are to close read the second and third poems - you can break down the structure, the diction, the tone, the shifts, the literary elements, the overlapping habits of Petrarch in his sonnets!
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