Analysis of Petrarch’s Sonnet 134 Essay

Based on the personas love that is unreciprocated by his beloved, the Poet illustrates in this sonnet, an natural conflict in the persona. The wholly bitter tone establishes a holistically integrating theme of being torn apart for love and also an air travel of histrionic resentment engorged with Petrarchs hyperbolized emotions. Divided into an octet and a sestet, which are respectively divided into two quatrains and two triplets, the sonnet follows a strict formula of end-stopped lines and medial caesurae I find no peace and have no arms for war (l. 1) The use of scheme in this sonnet adds to the conflict in the poem as equatorial figures of speech that insinuate a sense of paradox are apply ubiquitously oxymora and antitheses are used to contrast ideas separated by the medial caesurae My nookie opens non, nor locks the door, (l. 5) gives further evidence to the point postulated, how can a jailer not lock yet not open a door simultaneously? The end-stopped lines and the me dial caesurae suggest a sense of finality and by chance a disheveled state of emotion as the abrupt pauses strike the flow of the recitation and reflect the disturbances in the personas emotions, to me the feature that the poem keeps cycling forward as the paradoxical wheel that it is, intimates an hagridden continuity.Life is a conflict. That is just the way that it is. The octet pivots into the sestet by a Volta that does not propose a solution to the emotional conflicts scarcely rather states why the Poet must suffer so, and it is proclaimed rather blamefully, that it is his madam who has gifted him with such torment for you my lady am I in this state (l. 14) the change in syntax here serves to intimate an overtly dramatic tone as well as bring fury to I, hinting a bruise to the poets ego. It is common knowledge that a Petrarchan sonnet traditionally has the rhyme scheme abba abba cde cde but it is clear that this is not the case here. Using an inconsistent rhyme sche me abab abab cde cde, the Poet corroborates the inconsistent emotions of the persona, faltering towards extremes. The poem is dominated by the rubato iambic pentameter that most sonnets are judge to have. The regularity of the iambic pentameter results in a continuous feeling it is a meter of acceptance, as the true nature of life is not different, it as well as is continuous and one must accept it. But it is not without exceptions.