Textuality » 5LSAB InteractingFOlivo - Simultaneous translation - English and Petrarchian sonnets
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As you can understand, woman position during the Middle Ages was limited to be wife or noun and women were seen like a danger for men. They were easly unconditioned by women that show different behaviors from standard ones. A clear example if offered by the characterization of Bath Woman, where you can note a high irony used by the poet to present her dressing style and last but not least in profile conclusion “Amor vinci Omnia”. In the transition from Middle Ages to Renaissance the focus moves from the centrality of religious thought and God, the most representative code of the Middle Ages, to human centrality. It is visible with the trend to publish sonnets where the question tag, expressed with a lyrical poetry, is the contrast between spiritual and material element. Even if with different structures, English poets express most interior sentiments with compositions that are composed by 3 quatrains and 1 couplet. Quatrains give voice to private and personal contrasts proved by poet, who talks to a woman. The Petrarchian structure of the sonnet presents an octave and a sextet, where the first one had the function to present the problem and the last one to present a possible solution. This vision involved an adhesion to Cortese code that resorted to a stereotyped figure of woman: a blonde and blue eyes woman who had the function to improve the spirituality of men. |