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An 8 page research paper/analysis of how the poetry of John Donne and lady Mary Wroth, both poets of the early seventeenth century, use Petrarchan tradition in their verse, but do so to meet their own purposes. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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including the English-speaking world. Beginning in his own time, Petrarchs work has been "imitated, expanded upon, borrowed from, and contradicted by some of the most distinguished poets writing in the
English language" (Christian...Tradition). It was typical for Petrarchs verse to dramatize the anguish of unfulfilled desire to a beautiful, but chaste beloved (Christian...Tradition). John Donne (1572-1631) and Lady
Mary Wroth (1587-1651) wrote love poetry in the courtly Petrarchan style as epitomized by Wroths uncle, Sir Philip Sydney. The following examination of poems by Donne and Wroth illustrate that
while they each employed Petrarchan style, they did so with a twist. Each poet manipulated Petrarchan conventions to fit their own style and purposes. Donne was a humanist
who some experts feel was more at home with Plato than Petrarch. The Petrarchan style is evocative of the days of courtly innocence and a simpler world than one of
Donne and Wroth (John Donne). Therefore the union of John Donnes often satirical and coldly rational view of the world with Petrarchan courtliness led to some poems that are remarkably
unromantic, such as "The Flea," but also poems that are more in keeping with the intent of the Petrarchan genre, but in a Donnes own forthright style (John Donne).
The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My five grey hairs,
or ruind fortune flout" (lines 1-3). This rather frenzied beginning is the poets reaction to a rebuke from some unnamed critic who has objected to the poet being in
love. The critic has obviously advised the poet to obtain some other occupation. The poet goes on to question the critic as to what harm his love could have
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