I. Introduction to Western Poetry
1, a sonnet, also translated as "Shanglaiti", is a transliteration of Italian sonetto, English SONET and French SONET. It is a lyric poem with strict meter in Europe. Originally popular in Italy, Petrarch's creation made it perfect, also known as "Petrarch style", and later spread to European countries.
2. Petrarch's sonnets are neat in form and beautiful in rhyme. The main content is to praise love and express humanism. His poems opened up a new road for the development of European bourgeois lyric poetry in content and form. Contemporary Italian poets and later some poets in other countries regarded Petrarch's poems as a model of sonnets and competed to imitate them.
3. Each song is divided into two parts: the first part consists of two four-line poems, and the second part consists of two three-line poems, which are arranged in four, four, three and three. Therefore, people also call it Peterak's poetic style. Each line has 1 1 syllables, usually iambic.
Second, the characteristics
1, ancient Greek and Latin have obvious differences in vowel length, so both ancient Greek and Latin poems alternately form rhythms according to the law of vowel length, including long and short cases, long and short cases and so on. Ancient Sanskrit poems mainly rely on long and short forms to form rhythm; There are obvious differences in pronunciation between German, English and Russian, so poetry forms a rhythm of regular alternation of light and heavy sounds, such as light and heavy cases.
2. Syllables are composed of phonemes, which are the smallest indecomposable units in speech and the pronunciation marks after letter combination. Phones are recognized by hearing, letters by vision, phonemes belong to pronunciation system, and letters belong to spelling system.