Q: When was the Renaissance period?
A: The Renaissance lasted from the late 1400s to the 1600s.
(1485)
Q: What does “Renaissance” mean?
A: It means “rebirth,” referring to the revival of art, learning, and literature.
Q: What was the main idea or focus of the Renaissance?
A: Humanism — celebrating human reason, emotion, and creativity instead of only religion.
how were humans known before renassaiance
they were born to be weak and disgusting
where were humans placed in renassaince
between animals angels.
vernacular language
every european language (peasants language)
Q: What kind of poetry became popular during the Renaissance?
A: The sonnet, especially the Italian (Petrarchan) form, which inspired English poets.
Q: Who introduced the sonnet form that influenced English poets?
A: The Italian poet Petrarch.
what is petrarch’s Rima
it is a dream vision poem because it mentions a white doe and golden horn
what is most important love story in british literature
petrarch and lora
what is a conceit
clever or unusual comparison between two very different things in a poem.
the conceits
- deer hunt (knights could do)
- the sheep in a storm (being lost)
- fire and ice (lover can be both fire and ice)
- love as a war (love is a battle place)
- the garden (bible, the ideas of women as a garden.
Q: What were common themes in Renaissance poetry?
A: Love, beauty, time, virtue, fame, and the struggle between reason and passion.
Q: What change happened in the language of writing during the Renaissance?
A: Writers began using English more often instead of Latin.
this was because of national pride and to reach wider audience.
Q: How were love and politics connected in Renaissance poetry?
A: Poems often showed how love, power, and social status were linked in court life.
what did protestant reformation bring?
many different denominations and people started to read the bible
what happens when people start to read the bible?
it gets translated into english and peasants start to get literate
how did this infleunce sonnets
people develop more personal relationship with god through bible and the sonnets become more personal.
italian sonnets
- octave (8 lines), sestet (4 lines)
- the turn or volta
english sonnets
- 3 quatrains + couplet
- turn usually occurs in couplet
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renaissance20
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Renassaince lyrics51
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William Shakespeare sonnets12
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Edmund Spencer and The Faerie Queene35
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Christopher Marlow, Dr. Faustus32
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John donne, songs and sonnets26
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john donne satire 3 and holly sonnets30
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John Milton Paradise Lost Book 1;32
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john milton paradise book 218
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john milton paradise book 2 COPY18
