Since I'm off to finish grading all of the Cindy syntax prompts for AP Lang, I will restrain myself from babbling about Petrarch or his muse, the ever-effervescent and scintillating Laura. At this point, we looked at a poem (the first one in the packet) for its motifs, figurative language, tones, diction, imagery, allusions (hi, Cupid), and all the other literary elements existent in a poem (it's like prose but condensed, which means you have all the stuff to find in less surface area). To further our understanding, we then looked at Petrarchan/Italian sonnet structure - that octave, that volta, that sestet, that rhyme scheme! With the knowledge of structure, you have another avenue of analysis, and it seems to connect with a lot of shifts in the poem!
For reading this evening, close read the next 2 poems for literary elements and structure!
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