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POETRY 2

I.    Forms of LYRIC POETRY - pastorał poetry:

-    celebrates idealised rural life,

-    first pastorals - Greek poet Theocritus; then genre adapted into Latin by the

Roman poet Virgil (Eclogues),

-    among the best examples of English pastorał poetry: Edmund Spenser’s The

Shepherd’s Calendar.

II.    Forms of LYRIC POETRY - sonnet:

-    origin: 13^th century Italy,

-    Italian “sonnet” - “little sound” or “song",

-    Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet type:

•    lyric poem of 14 lines, divided into an octave (first 8 lines) and a sestet (last 6 lines)

•    octave - a story/ problem presented

•    sestet - solution given

•    rhythmic pattern: iambic pentameter

•    rhyming pattern: abba, abba, cde, cde

-    English (Shakespearean) sonnet type

•    Shakespeare’s Sonnets - masterpieces of poetry,

•    lyric poem of 14 lines, divided into 3 quatrains and a couplet,

•    rhythmic pattern: iambic pentameter,

•    rhyming pattern: abab, cdcd, efef, gg,

•    expression of the poet’s personal feelings and attitude to life,

-    English (Spenserian) sonnet type

•    named after Edmund Spenser (1552-1599).