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A 12 page paper which examines the evolution of the sonnet during the Renaissance times. The authors discussed are Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Philip Sidney, Mary Wroth, and William Shakespeare. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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and changed with the times. For the most part the sonnet is considered to be a poem that consists of fourteen lines and was were "written in Iambic Pentameter (Each
line contains ten syllables, five of which are usually stressed)" (Goldenberg). As we can see, sonnets were required to follow a particular standard of rhyming. And, during the period of
time of the Renaissance, it was the three rhyme schemes which were popular (Goldenberg). The following paper first examines some of the conditions of the sonnet during the Renaissance and
then examines individual poets as illustrative of the evolution of the sonnet during the Renaissance period. The poets examined are Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Philip Sidney,
Mary Wroth, and William Shakespeare. The Sonnet and the Renaissance In further understanding something of the sonnet itself, and thus giving us information that allows us to better see
how particular poets of the Renaissance helped the evolution of the sonnet, we first note that the poets made great use of conceits in sonnets. A conceit is actually something
of a metaphor that the poet uses to elaborate their point throughout the poem. And, for the most part we see that sonnets are love poems. During the Renaissance period
composing sonnets was considered a necessary endeavor when courting someone (Goldenberg). For example, a man of any position would surely write his love a sonnet in order to impress her
and gain her affection. "Since the sonnet was difficult to write (it had to adhere to strict rules in length, rhyming and metrics), it was sort of linguistic circus act
a gentleman performed in service for his lover" (Goldenberg). For courtly love and its tradition of the sonnet, we see that the heroine of any poem was usually unattainable
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