Renaissance Sonnets Not Only for Lovers
"Even Petrarch wrote about more than just his love for Laura. A number of his poems were composed for friends, with several of them for the Florentine poet Sennuccio del Bene. In poem 113, Petrarch writes about returning to the region where Laura was born, but he opens by describing his love for his friend, saying he is only 'half' himself without Sennuccio, and that both men would only be 'whole' and 'happy' if they were together."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Evie Shockley on Language as Form
"I found this truism (which seems to readily reproduce itself: 'one sin begets another,' 'one tragedy begets another,' 'one wedding begets another') bubbling up in my brain. If only one vote begat another in that inevitable way, I sighed, thinking of how hard it was to get women’s right to vote established as the law of the land—and of how long it was after that before Black women were able to exercise their 'women’s rights.'" |
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