Elizabethan Sonnets In Elizabethan Age, the sonnets had advanced into a form with new metric and rhyme scheme that was departing from Petrarchan sonnets. Yet, Elizabethan sonnets still carried the tradition of Petrarchan conceit. Petrarchan conceit was a figure used in love poems consisting detaile...
Now, if the lady is intelligent, as he seems to be, she will note the reference to the shame, sin, loss of virginity and the possible pregnancy. ... Donne indulged in quaint poetical conceits ignoring the classical conventions and classical characters (always keeping the object of affection anonymous), and the treatment of topics and objects of everyday life. ...
This poem fits perfectly into Romanticism as Wordsworth has rejected the classical poetry and placed the importance of true emotion above of society and intellect. ... The connection between the speaker and nature is immediately set up as: 'I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sat reclined' (line1-2). ...
