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In conversation, Eric Gans a long-time teacher of the 19th-century French sonnet has mentioned that this is the one form suited to study in its entirety in the minute academic hour. And, thanks to it being such a short, dynamic form, I can also justify its reproduction as a whole in my analyses due to the fact that it is so very brief, free-standing and entirely integrated. Still, it remains to be stated that an even more concise form that upholds the interests of parsimony is the epigrammatic or Scevian dizain; however, for reasons to be explored in Chapter Four, this deceivingly more complex form is less ritualistically repeatable and less obviously lyrical.

Tylor, Sir James Frazer, Edith Hamilton, Northrop Frye, Eric Gans, and, most recently, as we have seen, Jonathan Culler that attempts to understand literary genres in terms of human and social phenomena. At the same time, tracing this form back to a relationship between man and the Sacred, I also appeal to the sociological schools of thought of Durkheim, Mauss, Caillois, Eliade, etc. As the poet appeals to his dearly beloved through an imperative speech act, his petition is inevitably and perpetually denied, only further fueling his passion in both senses of the term: The rhetorical constraints of the Petrarchian sonnet allow for this exchange to occur and achieve a resolution—albeit always negative—in the most parsimonious and repeatable way.

As such, the sonnet becomes ritualistic: Maulpoix defines lyricism as such: Again, we will deal with these issues in due time. I explain Maulpoix further down in this very same paragraph. The way out is obvious. One must abandon attempts to define the general nature of the lyric or the lyrical. Nothing beyond generalities of the tritest kind can result from it.

Culler 11 According to Wellek, there is no way to mimetically recreate individual human sentiment through an artificial, universal poetic form. However, one may notice that in this list Wellek neglects to directly mention the sonnet as a form upon whose features we should focus our study of the lyric; and, while the form may be implied, in so doing, Wellek ignores, as I will venture to demonstrate in this study, the key lyrical genre for effectively expressing subjective desire—however intense, inward or immediate it may be.

It is through the very dynamic structure of his universal, constrained poetic artifice that he is able to recreate the individual subjectivity of the moment of passionate desire. There is, in the best personal poetry, a deep paradox involved […]. It is that the personal, or the thrill of the mind revealed for all to see, in all of its individual intensity, may be possible only when the methods of the poetry are impersonal.

The greatest intimacy may emerge from the greatest artifice […].

Is Petrarch, the great lover and innovator, merely a figurative reference, a mythical being whose contributions to the codification of a lyrical form make further creations or explorations in his field possible much like what Freud is for psychoanalysis or Hegel for dialectical thought? The sonnet was, rather, a formal artistic choice, albeit one that was difficult to avoid with few exceptions for many centuries. Thus we have an ethical imperative from Du Bellay, understood in terms of predicate logic. As this study focuses on the first love sonnets in the French tradition, I will maintain my focus there.

Briefly tracing the evolution of the sonnet from Giacomo through Dante and to its codification under Petrarch, I will prepare the groundwork for an examination of Petrarchism as the sonnet makes its triumphant entry into France in the midth century. Next, I will focus on the structure of the sonnet, referencing attempts—from the Renaissance to the present day—to explain and establish possible rhetorical functions of the fixed, fourteen-verse construct.

Finally, departing from technical analysis of the sonnet structure, I will turn to two major fields in Renaissance studies: Organizing the first French sonneteers into three historically- and sociologically-determined groups for analysis, I hope to defend my theory of the Petrarchian sonnet as lyrical imperative in Renaissance France. To be more specific: While in no way marking the end of the sonnet as my thesis speaks to the enduring appeal and incontrovertibility of the form , my Conclusion will serve two purposes: And, while perhaps distancing itself both structurally and thematically from purely Petrarchan models as it moves into France with new forms of Neoplatonism and Renaissance notions of invention, imitation, varietas, etc.

History, Structure, Thematics In the interest of situating the verse form I will be analyzing throughout the duration of this study, this opening chapter is comprised of three major divisions whose common objective is to familiarize the reader with the history and evolution of the sonnet as it traveled from Sicily to Paris; they are: Imitation Theory and Neoplatonism. Strange though it may seem, the organization of this chapter unwittingly resembles the logical structure of the sonnet that it will presently seek to lay out: As a starting point, let us trace this progression.

A Concise History of the Sonnet In the period immediately following the Revolution of and the dawn of the modern age, the sonnet—the imported, imitated invention of Petrarch that would place boughs of laurel on the crowns of poets in the 16th and earlyth centuries—was an all but forgotten genre.

In an age of obsession with encyclopedic knowledge, scholars took to the archives in attempts to unearth the origins of the sonnet. Gestalte und Geschichte in Since the s, the treatment of the sonnet has been flavored by the implementation of theoretical apparatuses and the fine- toothed comb of revisionist histories. Still, these modern theorists are neither first, nor go furthest, in claiming the French origins of the sonnet. In the following quotation, Oppenheimer explains the courtly tradition from which Giacomo was distancing himself with the sonnet: Often composed of lengthy strophes, or stanzas, with complex meters and rhyme schemes, and intended to be sung usually by the poet-composer-musician himself, it was a poetry of kings, or in some cases noblewomen.

Their poetry, which was thus clearly meant for public entertainment before a highly sophisticated group, made fashionable a love relationship, or courtly love situation, which possessed certain unusual and deliberately artificial qualities. This introspective invention, focusing on the self and departing from the performative poetry of the Middle Ages Oppenheimer 24 , presented a new poetic form to lyrically represent the more personal sentiments of passionate love.

Others in the court of Frederick II, including Jacopo Mostacci, Pier della Vigna and Frederick himself, composed poems in the sonnet form, constituting what is known as the Scuola siciliana. The French might call this description a litote, an extreme understatement. Surely, the sonnet does, on occasion, adapt itself to different themes; however, as this study will show, its principal theme, especially with Giacomo, Dante and Petrarch and before in France, is indubitably that of passionate love.

With Giacomo, lyrical expression had found its ideal form of introspective expression, one that would continue to develop through the efforts of the Dolce stil nuovo, which includes Dante, Cavalcanti, Latini, Civo in the Tuscan school to the north Jasinski ; Oppenheimer For him, those of the Dolce stil nuovo represent without wanting to diminish the importance of the work of Dante a step in somewhat of a more allegorical direction in the development of the love sonnet, differing from the Sicilians in that he and the Tuscans […] favoured more spontaneity, more of the ardour of the wooer; but, they were nevertheless aware that the lady was entirely symbolical.

Indeed, they were not only aware of it; they said so—and this was their novelty. De Rougemont Embracing a largely medieval or Christian symbolism, these poets seem to further distance themselves from a subjective, introspective form of self-expression. Although born of the desire for Beatrice, the sonnets of Dante as well as those of the other poets of the Dolce stil nuovo formulate love in very different terms than does Petrarch.

Troubadour […] poetry does not exclude the treatment of final satisfaction in love, though the convention only permits it in certain circumstances: With the dolce stil nuovo in late thirteenth-century Italy the lady is assimilated to the divine, of which she becomes a sort of symbol. The poetic position is reflexive and descriptive. Petrarch takes up and assimilates both these traditions. Perhaps his original intention was to express genuine frustration in love through the inherited conventions of the dolce stil nuovo. He oscillates between the restrained wooing and distant adoration.

But the beloved Laura remains for him a real woman, whose beauty intoxicates him and whose physical presence excites him. Hence he can hymn her various physical attributes—eyes, hair, skin, etc. Nonetheless, love is not a virtue in itself, for he realises that his love is a passion and that passion is sinful. But he wants both passion and purification, and cannot always balance the two. Petrarch, however, would borrow from the two and add an essential element to the form: Oppenheimer 8 ] In the opening eight verses, where not only syllables but entire words are repeated in an ABABABAB form, Giacomo gives us a repetition of a number of figures, focusing on the painfully passionate moment of il innamoramento—many of which love as a spear, cold fire, the eyes, mirrors, etc.

With Giacomo, the marriage of the ottava to the six-verse strambotto was just that: As opposed to the last sonnet, in this one Giacomo comes closer to expressing the sentiment of passionate love, but it is still allegorized, expressed to a third person, with another moral lesson available after the volta. Religion is called upon directly as an antidote for passionate love in this sonnet from division XIII of Vita nuova: Oppenheimer ] Beginning with an allegorized Love Amore and continuing to describe the vast, confusing spectrum of sentiments it causes him to experience, Dante quickly builds to transparent religious allegory as he harkens to the one thing capable of providing him solace: With another poem suggesting the potential of positive resolution and an antidote to love, the early sonnets appear to want to heal love rather than experience it.

Petrarch understood passionate love and the pains that accompany human desire, and, in his sonnet, would develop a way to poetically render and even celebrate it. De Rougemont is quick to point out the souffle nouveau that Petrarch provided to lyrical poetry in moving away from collective chivalry and religious allegory: No longer was the desired woman a potential help-meet to share and assuage the pains of love or a figure of comfort to which we have recourse when overburdened by love.

With Petrarch, the hybrid poet-lover persona was born and in his verse we witness both the evocation and realization of the futility of love, where the potential fulfillment of desire is presented ephemerally, only to evaporate in the short, verse form. Almost instantaneously, the Petrarchian sonnet would be adopted as the ideal form for reasons to be explained below for expressing the torturous passion of love.

Petrarch understood what those before him did not, as is explained here by de Rougemont: Happy love has no history. Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself. What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering. There we have the fundamental fact.

In the case of the Petrarchan lyric, Laura is forever displaced, inaccessible to the poet-lover, but eternally evocable through poetic language. Within the confines of the Petrarchian sonnet, the lyrical genre would become even more contemplative, further distancing itself from the desired object and representing, in verse, what had been expressive and collective in earlier forms. Petrarchian lyricism, a poetic operation dependant upon the absence of the desired object evoked through verse, is characterized by this unfulfilled, virginal quality: In the tercets, the interlaced rhymes allow the poet to metaphorically equate the attributes of his beloved with weapons in the C rhyme pair, his inability to resist in the D pair and the results of this incapacity in the E pair.

However, a more thorough analysis into the structure of the Petrarchan verse, I will withhold until later. Part of the Renaissance enterprise of imitation was invention, the techne by which familiarity with master models was gained see Grahame Castor, ch. This considered, it should come as no surprise that there would be such a copious repetition of tropes and figures, symbols and themes. Finally, we are faced with an example of an individual, desiring subject evoking the image of a desired, addressed and, in this case, even named—and, as such, not merely allegorized—object.

In thematizing passionate love coupled with the resentment of its impossibility of fulfillment and embedding this thematics into the mold of a constrained, rhetorically-driven verse form would be the heritage of Petrarch to his centuries of disciples to follow, including those in midth-century France. Having introduced, and properly attributed, the Petrarchian sonnet to its inventor, let us now turn to the subject of this study: But, first, to understand the migration of the Petrarchian sonnet into France requires a certain degree of historical framing.

As early as and into the 20s and 30s, the vogue for all things Italian—art, philosophy, humanism—was at its apogee. Along the trade routes between Florence and Paris—with the important depots of Genoa and Lyon along the way—Italian Renaissance culture was all the rage and was a trend-setter in all aspects of culture.

Ideals of humanistic education—an interest in philology and a return to Greco-Roman forms of rhetoric and learning—were adopted by writers such as Castiglione, Machiavelli, Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre and others, as Cicero, Aristotle and Quintillian became the great masters to imitate.

And, imitate they did—with a profusion of texts pouring out of the recently-invented printing presses. The Renaissance was defined, as explained by Terence Cave in The Cornucopian Text, by such copiousness and abundance De Copia in form, practice and manner in the areas of elocution and oration. In fact, many of the poets responsible for the advent of the sonnet in France were of courtly origin, as members of the petite noblesse Weber However, for expressing passionate love in their Amours, the poets would turn to a more recent Italian import: Of course, when dealing with the lyric as a genre, other sources, especially thematic, are possible to draw— even for Petrarch Sappho, Catullus, Tibullus, etc.

Jasinski, in his history, suggests that: In essence, Du Bellay would be the first in France to draw together both Petrarchian structure and thematics in an original canzoniere. The structural evolution from epigram to sonnet—leaving alone thematics for the time being—would seem fairly obvious. First, there is the most simple form of an epigram, one composed of two couplets that respond to one another and deliver the final word directly and concisely: Ces quatre vers sont les Estreines tiennes: Ces quatre vers te demandent les miennes.

In the first verse, the verses tend to salute you, and, in the second they recommend something of or someone to you. Each of the first three verses is concluded with a colon 19 that builds to the next, until at the conclusion of the second couplet, we discover what is recommended. Verse three appears to proclaim that these four verses belong to a certain Estreines, whose surname Marot turns into a jeu de mots: In the final verse, the concluding mot spirituel explains the reason for Ces quatre vers: Nevertheless, the choice of punctuation is important and, as further analysis will demonstrate, contributes to the dynamism between verses or within a poetic structure.

Let us examine the poem: This sets up the concluding final mot, the remaining B rhyme: Read as such, the first series of five is connected to the second series of five with the repetition of the BB rhyme in the 5th and 6th verses—which, together, form a couplet. This series of couplets AA that returns to B, vv. With this in mind, let us return to the implementation of the couplet marotique to the French Petrarchian sonnet.

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In fact, to create a Petrarchian sonnet from this form would only require the addition of two mirroring quatrains. The effect achieved by the former is a more fluid build-up of tension, whereas the latter contains the tension in two separate entities. This will become increasingly pertinent as I discuss the syllogistic qualities of the sonnet. While the French sonnet has been dismissed as derivative, belittled for the high degree of its imitativeness or ignored altogether amongst many scholars of the English sonnet, 23 with the addition of the couplet marotique at the 9th and 10th verses, 24 the verse form acquires a new dynamism and rhetorical force to which we will now turn our attention.

Not only is the French middle man denied a chapter, but its presence in the book is limited to a few lines. The Rhetorical Function of the Sonnet Structure One of the more salient and defining formal features of the sonnet is the brevity of this forme fixe. Unlike the ode, ballad or other forms, the sonnet is defined by its constraints; the poet has fourteen verses of a select number of syllables 10 or 12 and rhymes 4 or 5 to build to a singular idea. Likewise, for Jost, in his article on the sonnet structure: Whereas the English sonnet builds to a final couplet, the French variety employs the couplet that divides the octave from the sestet to a rhetorical end that will be explained below.

Clive Scott, in his Poetics of French Verse, also discounts the discursive Shakespearean soliloquitous sonnet, claiming that: As analysis will show, with the couplet marotique, the rime plate interrupts the continuity, offering something syllogistic rather than terminal. For others, nevertheless, at some distance from the esthetics of purgation of the Classicists, for example, Sainte-Beuve in , the form is ironically a crystallization of thought, a boiling away of the superfluous, a reduction to a pure form Gendre 7.

Tout va bien au Sonnet […]. However, these critics agree that by way of its own limitations, a well-worked sonnet produces a distillation of thought, an evocative vignette that momentarily makes the non-present mentally present and produces a singular effect that separates it from any other verse form. In his same article, Jost explains it thus: In other words, the sonnet is an ideal container for the dualities of the Petrarchian thematics. Knowing there are fourteen verses in which to produce a singular effect or evoke an image, the poet builds to an end for which the reader can prepare in anticipation.

All literature builds to an end; but prose, drama and most poetic forms 26 do not hold the promise of offering it in a predictable fourteenth and final line. A definite end is prepared and promised. However, unlike with the maintained symmetry of the epigram, the 8: Likewise, the epigram builds to a final mot spirituel. And, it is at this point that the French couplet marotique separates the French sonnet from the Italian or English, offering it a significant rhetorical value. This rupture in the logical order also introduces the sestet; or, in the case of the French sonnet, as explained earlier by Weber, the two quatrains are interrupted by a new rhyme—a couplet—and a final concluding four verses are ushered in to bring the poem to its predetermined end.

Much has been speculated concerning this 8: This equation, employing square roots and the Pythagorean Theorem, claims to prove the logic of the sonnet We will defer elaborating on such theories of balance and equilibrium to the discussion of theorizing the sonnet in the next chapter. The French continental sonnet establishes a point of departure in the stability of its octave: On this sound foundation is built something very different, the nervous, exploratory, disequilibriated acceleration of the tercets, usually using three rhymes in their six lines against the octaves customary two in eight.

From the structural independence of the quatrains we shift to the interdependence, the mutual incompleteness, of the tercets. T he bipartite form is the result of a prosodic sleight-of-hand.

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The eight lines of closed rhyme produce a certain kind of musical pace which demands repetition. Any expectation of stanzic continuation is, however, violated by the six lines of the interlaced rhyme which follow: The French sonnet once again sets itself apart with its rhetorical integrity. For the syllogistic sonnet, 29 one quatrain Q1 would offer a premise of objective generalities and the other Q2 another premise of more subjective particularities that would together build to a conclusion in the tercets T.

Through the syllogism—which, of course, never manifests itself perfectly in any sonnet, we could define a general Petrarchian thematics as such: Because I desire her, I am predestined to suffering.

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As we see, in the deduced logic of the Petrarchian model there is commonly—but, by no means, always—a passage from the unattainable You the desired object and, often, addressee of the poem to the pitiable subject Me that concludes in victimizing me because I desire an objective you. In a study that speaks of the Petrarchian ideal sonnet, it is important to remember that the ideal sonnet does not exist. Consider, first, this syllogistic example from Petrarch: Another feature, the enjambment from the 13th to 14th verse, drives home this rhetoric in a sort of cause-and-effect poetic play on words: With the additional rime plate separating the two premises from the conclusion, the French sonnet offers the aforementioned moment of rupture and reflection through with the final four verses can resound.

In the pattern 4: Now, our model could be presented as thus: This additional moment of tension enables the delivery of the final image to be all the more distilled as the poem builds to its esthetic closure. Playing with the Petrarchian dualism and oxymoron between the words aimer to love and amer bitter , the poet carries over to the second quatrain his inability to resist this object outside himself that causes such great suffering. In the couplet marotique of the 9th and 10th verses, where a couplet brings an end to the quatrain pair and introduces the tercets, there is a summary of what has happened thus far—a reiteration of his misery caused by desire—and a preparation for the conclusion to be delivered in the final quatrain.

Despite himself, he must attempt to satiate his desire, fully aware that his consumption will be excessive—his actions will ultimately bring about misery. And, so it does. In the final four verses, he distills the image: Still, the Petrarchian poet is incapable of resisting it, and realizes it will be the end of him. As is the case with this Ronsard poem, with the couplet marotique, the French sonnet enjoys the possibility of an additional, potent resource which allows for confirmation and enables the poem to realize a crystallized, logical end.

Having seen the function of the couplet marotique and how it contributes to the sonnet-as-syllogism, let us turn to the other logical model to which the sonnet lends itself: Weber notes that Schlegel: I will, therefore, only gloss the situation of in order to get to the Hegelian model. Although we see moments of this in the Renaissance and Baroque periods the periods of a purer Petrarchism when compared to the Romantic period in France , it becomes a more regular practice in the thematics of the late or bas Romantics, those of the generation of For the poets of this period, who were more concerned with personal history and lamenting failed revolutions and romantic ideals than inaccessible lovers, Hegelian concepts of history seem more appropriate than the cruelties of desire.

In the case of these poets, however, the ideal is usually not a woman, or if it is, she is representative of a displaced historical ideal. And, employing another logical presentation, the sonnet structure still builds to a concise conclusion in the dialectical model. Let us examine the poem to expose this Hegelian dialectical pattern: Many scholars link this infatuation with Germany to the death of his mother in Prussia while the poet was still an infant.

Ils reviendront, ces Dieux que tu pleures toujours! The second stanza calls into question her memory of spaces: Rather than split hairs as to whether or not this is the case, let us focus our attention on the dialectical structure at play despite the division. These oppositions are also quite emblematic of the Hegelian dialectic in the 19th-century French sonnet. Working with various thematics and across historical periods, the Petrarchian sonnet, through its rhetorical structure and logical form, builds to a final image that it distills—in a couplet—in its concluding verses.

Nevertheless, the tension between the 8: Either way, there is no possible couplet marotique in the 9th and 10th verse positions; rather, the poem consists of three quatrains with a repeated conclusion in the final couplet. Teaming with the thematics of an inaccessible desired object, the structure of the sonnet allows the possibility of evoking the desired image and witnessing its dissolution in a minimal poetic scene.

And, for a final example of an exception that confirms the rule: The response is to be found in the relationship of this Petrarchian structure and thematics to the nature of the human desires and passionate love constitutive of the anthropology of the French lyric. Gendre notes the irony of this comment: Petrarchism, Imitation and Neoplatonism.

Imitation Theory and Neoplatonism As previously mentioned, the sonnet was not the only Italian import to enter into France and evolve as part of the French Renaissance. Italian philosophy, as well as Italian interpretations of Classical ideas, also found their way into the traditions of the later culture.

As practice met theory, one thing became certain: For them, Petrarchism was little more than the most recent avatar of past masters to imitate—as his ideal lyrical form, the sonnet, had become synonymous with passionate love. To compose passionate love, however, one must first hope to comprehend the intricacies of passionate love. Fortunately, to this end, the Renaissance had also brought Neoplatonism and its complex theories of love into vogue in 15th-century Italy and 16th-century France.

What was the Renaissance, after all, but the attempted rebirth of classical Greco-Roman ideals? And, how is this made possible but through the imitation of great masters. By the former, choosing suitable, classic models, the poets of the 16th century in France hoped to gain access to the latter, an uncovering or discovery of past knowledge Castor In his Deffence et illustration, Joachim Du Bellay takes it a bit farther when he speaks of the insufficiency of simply translating I, 5 , that imitation was a necessary form of ingesting and naturalizing a given material or form.

Following a similar line of thought as that of Brague, Du Bellay asks then responds to a rhetorical question: Imitation, therefore, in opposition to 19th-century Romantic ideals of originality and singularity, is a positive trait in the Renaissance. I quote Du Bellay: In no way is borrowing existing models for creation in 43 Once again, the Renaissance avoids the Romantic notion of firstness or creation in a void.

Invention, according to the principles of Humanism, was a re-discovery of the forgotten ideals of Antiquity. Petrarch, Ariosto and Bembo. Such possession, nevertheless, following Neoplatonic theory, allowed a potential escape from the earthly prison of the carnal body, had to be merited through the drudgery of imitation Castor According to the well-known Renaissance aphorism: The idea of divine fury, like the sonnet, was another recent Italian import in 16th-century France. In Neoplatonism, poetry is incorporated into a complete metaphysical and epistemological framework, and it becomes an integral part of that framework.

Poetry is not simply an optional extra, a pleasing and elegant embellishment which has nothing at all to do with the really important issues of human life.

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Poetry, in fact, has an essential part to play in the relations between body and soul. Castor 31 So, in essence, if we follow the logic of this metaphysical theory, the objective, the desired end result of poetry is a transcendent form of Love that can only be attained through the experience at an earlier level of passionate love, which ultimately promises to provide us with enlightenment.

Vignes recognizes this complicity between Petrarch ism and Neoplatonism, which he relates in terms that will facilitate our connection between these theories and our anthropological theories of the sonnet. The two are reconciled, I would argue, in Petrarchian verse—which is the supreme manifestation of the lyricism Maulpoix seeks to define. Mais les deux ne se confondent pas. Man seeks to create and the desired other is merely a means by which this desire is mediated. As Ficino states in his commentary on Plato: Of course, the accessibility of this central sacred feminine remains forever a leurre.

Only in the sonnet, however, is the poet allowed to minimize his suffering, parsimoniously achieving resolution in a constrained space of 14 verses. This juxtaposition of purity and carnality is also visible in the explanation of Jean Balsamo: The structure itself, consisting of a continuous, symmetrical ottava violently interrupted by the asymmetry of a strambotto sestet, provides closure and minimalism to a poetic form that could potentially defer its ending indefinitely. With the innovations of Marot, introducing the rime plate in the 9th and 10th verse positions, 51 there is a significant rupture that allows the sonnet to operate as a syllogism, synthesizing the premises of the first two quatrains into a final chute or volte and conclusion.

Thematically and structurally, as codified by Petrarch, the sonnet is an ideal form for expressing passionate love. The lyrical ideal of the Petrarchian thematics worked so well that the form almost naturally made its way into France during the Renaissance, at the same time humanists were suggesting imitation as a means to enrich the French language. On the ideological flipside, Neoplatonic ideals of inspiration and divine fury were justified as the metaphysical relationships of poetic creation to Love were examined.

As it varies from poet to poet, I will suffice it to say it progressively became the dominant form. Thus, we have yet another defense of the Petrarchian Lyrical Imperative. Next, progressing forward beyond the Renaissance through the French lyrical tradition and elsewhere , I turn to the theories of other poets and poeticians from the Baroque and Classicism to Romanticism, Modernism and Post-Modernism, who have attempted to understand the structure of the sonnet in numerical and geometrical terms. In a final section, I revisit the structure and thematics of the French Petrarchian sonnet, reading the verse form against sociological and anthropological literary theory—into which tradition, I argue, the explanation of the predominance of the sonnet as the ideal lyrical form is best supported.

Finally, I appeal to a linguistically-inclined branch of socio-anthropological theory—building upon the thought of Lang, Searle, Frye, Gans, Culler, etc. The enigmatic richness of the constrained,verse structure, the marriage of symmetry to asymmetry, and the paradox of intimacy through artifice interested theorists of the Renaissance just as they do scholars today. It is likewise contemporary to a period when the sonnet-epigram of Marot and others was—with direct translations of Petrarch—a generally accepted form of the sonnet.

Nonetheless, he also laments the variations of the asymmetrical sestet, which, according to him, limit the effectiveness and sheer comprehensibility of the sonnet; he concludes: As we see, the sudden, violent intrusion of the illogical, asymmetrical strambotto tercet pair breaks with the reason and analogy of the verse and defies the measure and rules of the verse, introducing a sort of enigma and paradox to the verse form.

In the second chapter of the second book, Peletier speaks to a Petrarchian Lyrical Imperative in recognizing Petrarch as the imitable model for the sonnet and reconfirming my own claims from the first chapter: Once again, he creates, and then examines the limitations to, an analogy between the sonnet and the epigram: Furthermore, if the common French reader of poetry contemporary to Aneau, who was accustomed to more challenging in his assessment , repetitive rhyme schemes AAA, BBB, etc.

Again, in his correspondance with Armand Fraisse, Baudelaire poses the question: Plato found this harmony in the squares and cubes of the double and triple proportion starting from unity…. The ratios between these numbers contain not only all the musical consonances, but also the inaudible music of the heavens and of the human soul. Naturally, the same limitations would not apply to the erudite generation of French poets in the 16th century, many of whom, self-proclaimed Hellenists, certainly knew their Plato.

However, rather he rather adroitly adds: Grotesque for human proportions, as a poetic form, the sonnet was, for Banville—as evidenced by his regular use of the form, rather effective. While this may not account for the thematics of the Petrarchian sonnet, what will be of particular interest in the model I will soon put forward—and what should be kept in mind—is the idea in the first paragraph of two equal mirrors and two walls that enclose the poet, an image to which I shall return.

Scott, Poetics As a conclusion to this section on numerical theories of the sonnet, Bonnefoy reduces it to a matter of binary code: While numbers are essential in understanding the sonnet 14 verses, 8: What is missing, may I suggest, and what Aragon hinted towards in his explanation, is a theory that accounts for the thematics of the sonnet to accompany its numerically-based structure. One cannot divorce the two: To the end of illuminating both the structure and thematics of the verse form, allow me to put forward my anthropological theory of the sonnet.

Myth, Ritual, Genre Prior to advancing to my own anthropological model for interpreting the sonnet, it is important to note that mine is neither the first nor the only theoretically-driven model for explaining the structure of the sonnet. The same is true for the sonnet. Then again, in this case, there is no explanation of the Petrarchian thematics of passionate love. The book has questionnaires to help assess your body type and stress level. Beautiful hardcover book in excellent condition.

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Softcover, pages Publisher: Ordinary Americans worked hard and enjoyed "modern". Smile on your face. The smile on your face Lets me know that you need me There's a truth in your eyes Saying you'll never. I hope you like it. For now it's just me playing my guitar and. My version of a good luck money frog - fun to share or learn or give or even For ice breakers fellas eh eh:? Girls will love the trick: Its not that hard and I. DIY tutorial on how to easily fold a frog out of.