Since the Renaissance in Europe, this poetic style has been widely used. Italian poet Peterak became the most important representative of the use of sonnets. He wrote 375 sonnets in his life and compiled them into a collection of lyric poems dedicated to his lover Laura. Every sonnet he wrote is divided into two parts: the first part consists of two sonnets, and the second part consists of two sonnets. That is, in order of four, four, three and three. Its rhyme format is ABBA, ABBA, CDE, CDE or ABBA, ABBA, CDC, CDC. There are eleven chapters in each line, usually iambic.
Peterak's sonnets are neat in form and beautiful in rhyme. The main content is to praise love and express the thoughts of humanists. His poems opened up a new way for the development of European bourgeois lyric poetry in content and form. Contemporary Italian poets and some poets from other countries later regarded Peterak's poems as a model of sonnets and imitated them. Therefore, people also call it Peterak's poetic style.
/kloc-At the beginning of the 6th century, sonnets spread to England and were popular for a while. By the end of16th century, sonnets had become the most popular poetry genre in Britain, resulting in famous sonnets, such as Sidney and Spencer. Shakespeare further developed and enriched this style and wrote 154 sonnets all his life. Shakespeare's poems have changed the format of Peterak, which consists of three paragraphs, four lines and a pair of dialogues, namely, four, four.
Shakespeare's sonnets go a step further than Peterak's, with more vivid and rich themes, twists and turns in thought and easy application. They often point out the meaning of the questions in the last dialogue. Later, Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats also wrote some excellent sonnets.
Italian sonnets
Italian sonnets are divided into two sections, and the first eight sections are followed by six sections. The rhymes of the first eight sentences are A-B-B-A and A-B-B-A, and there are two kinds of last six sentences, C-D-E, or C-D-C-D-C. The ninth sentence not only changes the rhyme, but also has different themes or feelings.
The rules of Italian sonnets were established by Guittone d 'Arezzo (1235-1294), who wrote nearly 300 sonnets himself. The most famous early sonnet poet is Francesco Petrarca (1304- 1374). Other Italian poets also wrote. Such as the battleship Dante AliGneki Cheri (1265- 132 1 year) and guido cavalcanti (~ 1250- 1300).
English sonnets
See: Shakespeare's Sonnets.
After Italian sonnets were introduced into England, the structure changed. English is divided into three paragraphs, four sentences and the last two sentences. The last two sentences are usually very different from the first two sentences, and the change is more dramatic than the ninth sentence of Italian class. Generally, the rhyme of English sonnets is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g, or a-b.
Modern sonnets
After the popularity of vernacular Chinese, sonnets became scarce, but some people wrote them in19th and 20th centuries, such as arthur rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé. Now there is a website dedicated to publishing sonnets.