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Teachers' Resource Web Petrarchan Convention and the Sonnet Brian Loftus, UCI, English 28A Match the poetic conceit/convention to a sonnet appears. Sonnets may contain more than one conceit. Conceits may appear in more than one sonnet. SONNET a. Wyatt "Whoso List to Hunt" b. Wyatt "The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor" c. Surrey "Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Heart" CONCEIT/CONVENTION 1. Love as a battle 2. Love as deadly (disease, wound) 3. Love as torment 4. Love as bondage 5. Love as a hunt 6. Love/Beloved as ruler/master 7. The power of the Beloved's gaze (as ray, beam, etc.) 8. The beauty of the Beloved's person (like flowers, jewels, etc.) 9. The name of the Beloved/Poet (puns, wordplay, etc.) 10. Apostrophe (address to inanimate object, dead person, etc.) 11. The Beloved as a Star/Sun 12. The Virtue of the Beloved
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