Literature - The Roman Analysis PDF

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21.11.2018

The Roman Sonnet - Analysis Tropes and Figures - blazon: Francesco Petrarca, Sonnet 292:! Example: “the waving hair of unmixed gold that shone, the smile that flashed with the angelic rays“ Spenser, Sonnet LXIIII:! Example: “Her lips did smell like unto gillyflowers; Her ruddy cheeks, like unto roses red; Her snowy brows, like budded bellamoures; Her lovely eyes, like pinks but newly spread; Her goodly bosom, like a strawberry bed; Her neck, like to a bunch of Columbines; Her breast, like lollies, ere their leaves be shed; Her nipples, like young blossomed jessamines:“ William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130: - counterblazon, anti-sonnet, metafiction, intertextuality! Percy B. Shelly, Ozymandias: Rhyme scheme: ABAB, ACDC, EDE, FEF! → elements from both Italian and English form! → only one possible solution to decide on stanza structure, that takes into account both rhyme scheme and some syntactic aspects! Metre: iambic pentametre ( u / u / u / u / u / )! Deixis - situational markers (personal, local, temporal):! ! I met a traveller from an antique land ! Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone ! Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, ! Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, ! And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read ! ! Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, ! The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. ! And on the pedestal these words appear: ! “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: ! Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” ! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay ! Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare ! The lone and level sands stretch far away. Communicative levels of Ozymandias:!...