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A 3 page essay that offers an explication of Francisco de Quevedo's Sonnet 478. This examination of Sonnet 478 demonstrates the connection that Quevedo made between the concept of Neoplatonic love and the anguish of unrequited love. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and witty metaphor" that serves to underscore the meaning of this verse (Francisco de Quevedo). He was also renowned for this "pessimistic stoicism," which was associated with "his inimitably ironic
style "(Francisco de Quevedo). Quevedo, coming as he did toward the end of the courtly love tradition, possessed a critical perspective that was lacking to his predecessors, as he
was aware that courtly love was an abstraction (Olivares 5). Nevertheless, the topic of courtly love appealed to Quevedo on several levels, which included his need for spiritual fulfillment. This
examination of Sonnet 478 demonstrates the connection that Quevedo made between the concept of Neoplatonic love and the anguish of unrequited love. In Sonnet 478, "Cargado voy di mi:
veo delante," Quevedo uses the metaphor of a journey and being burdened to the anguish that a lover feels from unrequited love. The metaphor pictures love as a habit and
an anguished burden, rather than as the joy, which is the typical approach to the topic of courtly love. Quevedo writes that he is "loaded down with myself: I see
before me death threatening my journey/to insist on following a mistaken route is more the act of a fool than a faithful man" (Olivares 97). This suggests that the lovers
hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to burn back--"Loves journey has become a way
of life" (Olivares 97) . In these lines Quevedo combines two sources, with the first being an imitations of Boscan, who wrote "Im loaded down with myself wherever I do"
(Olivares 98). The second influence is Petrarch who wrote "and death comes after me by great stages" (Olivares 98). By associating these sources within a "verbal cluster of perception and
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