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Vladimir [108]
3 years ago
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Why does the speaker in sonnet 18 by petrarch repeatedly use negative words and phrases?

English
2 answers:
anyanavicka [17]3 years ago
5 0


The poem is about his inability to spend time with his beloved. 

<span>The poem is about his inability to capture his beloved's beauty in verse. <-- </span>

<span>The poem is about his inability to accept that his beloved has died. </span>

<span>The poem is about his inability to understand what others see in his beloved. </span>
Firdavs [7]3 years ago
5 0

Petrarch's Sonnet 18 is about Laura, her beauty and his incapability to describe her beauty in a proper way. His love for her is an impossible one, and he uses repeatedly negative words and phrases to state clearly that her beauty is impossible for him to describe, <em>"unsung...in my rhyme".  </em>He hasn't got any possibilities to make a proper description of her beauty, nor to describe her brightness. So he uses negative word and phrases to strenghten  the idea of his inability to make a suitable portrayal of her, because her beauty is such that it exceeds his chance to describe it. He hasn't got the <em>strength </em>nor the <em>genius</em>.

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