Concetti Chiave
- The sonnet is a poetic form consisting of 14 lines, traditionally organized into two quatrains and two tercets.
- Petrarch established the sonnet as an important form, emphasizing form over content, with a specific rhyme scheme to introduce and resolve ideas.
- During the 14th and 15th centuries, Petrarch's Italian sonnets were adapted in England, evolving into a distinct English version.
- Thomas Wyatt translated Petrarch's sonnets, maintaining the original rhyme scheme and themes, adapting them to English.
- The Earl of Surrey modified the sonnet structure to three quatrains and a couplet, reflecting the English language's fewer rhyming words.
The sonnet
The sonnet is a poetical composition made up of 14 lines organised in two quatrens and two tercets.
The sonnet was born in Sicily during the XIII century but is Petrarca who established the Sonnet as an important poetical form.
Petrarca was a writer who has written the "Canzoniere" concerning his love for Laura.
In the Petrarca's Sonnet, in the first two quatrens, there is the same
rime schema and he usually introduced a subject or an idea.
In the last two tercet ne gives the solution of the problem.
During the XIV andò the XV century the italiano Sonets written by Petrarca were proposed in England where they were translated, written and elaborated again, until they become something of different.
Tomas Wyat translated Petrarca's Sonnet following the dame rime schema, his attitude andò his content.
Another important writer was the Earl of Surrey and whit him the Sonet changed. He organised it in three quatrens and a final cuplet rinning together. These changes are because English has not many words rinning together ad italian.
The new rime schema represent the desire of contrast, different of the opinions that characterized that period.
In the first quatren it is introduced an idea, in the second and in the third there is a problemi and in the final couplet is given a solution.
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