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Carroll, "The end of art? Kelly, "Essentialism and historicism in Danto's philosophy of art" 30 ; F. Oppenheimer cited the sonnet as the first truly individual, self-reflective and modern poetic form 3. Pagan, and not in the least heretical! A personal lyric would necessarily be more reflective of personal desire and the desired object would not be a universally inaccessible god, but rather a personally inaccessible feminine counterpart.
As it evolves, the lyrical form no longer evokes God, epic: Between the expressive, active participation of the former and the latent, passive absence of the latter, in both cases, dwells the lyrical imperative, the unaccomplished, intermediary form where a present calls upon a non-present. Thematically removed from the communal scene, the physical intimacy of the couple remains entirely out of question. Remember, passionate love can only exist in absentia. Desire for the inaccessible is all that can ever truly be expressed. However, in the same way tragic theatre can communally display—in the ostensive sense—the scene of creation, the lyrical poet can likewise occupy the scene of creation.
The very failure—or negative resolution—of every sonnet assures that he will continue to create, if not physically, through representation. In this same article, Gans states it thus: In this leurre of cat-and-mouse, this passionate conquest to never be fulfilled, the poet-lover occupying the sacred scene is a creator in verse. No poet writes in a void. Even Giacomo read his poems to Frederick II and his fellow courtiers.
If it becomes less performative and more secular, it is no less communal. If not a public work, why else would a poet choose to publish make public his poetry? Even in the case of intimate desire, there is an element of communal sympathy through mimesis, even removed from collective religion. Along the same lines: Although personal, the lyrical genre involves us, the reader, chaque individu. Thus, moving from an anthropological to a sociological and back to an anthropological reading of the creation of the sonnet and its reception in the public, we realize that it is the universality of both this structure and thematics that assures its longevity.
Always a failed enterprise of evoking the desired being, but a successful effort of presenting a singular sentiment of passionate love, the rapidly introduced and perpetually negative resolution of the sonnet allows for its continuity. This is also true because, as Gans writes: However, this mimetic confrontation avoids the necessity of the sacrifice of an arbitrary victim for resolution, as it defers violence through the introduction of the tercet pair that parsimoniously brings the poem to a decisive and peaceful resolution—one in which, still, the desired object cannot be appropriated.
In the case of the couplet marotique that ushers in an end to the competing entities , the 9th and 10th verse offer a potential structural representation of the harmony that follows the Originary Event, bringing about the resolution in the communal, intertwined concluding verses that follow. Our logical model would therefore read: But the lyric catharsis is not provided by an actual presence, not even, as in ritual, by the manifestation of the sacred powers of the object which place it out of the reach of individual desire.
The language of desire must accomplish this catharsis on its own. We are drawn to it and, at the same time, are repulsed by it. In Gansian terms, our relationship to the Sacred is conceived in more human terms, in that it takes into account our desires: We love the sacred center because we desire and worship it; at the same time, we resent it because we know we can never have it. Gans attributes this idea to Nietzsche, who he applauds as being the first to theorize this idea of ressentiment and recognizing it as the position of the modern man Signs of Paradox It could be said that this sentiment exists in the paradoxical dilemma of the desiring lyrical subject imperatively evoking a non-present object.
While elements of Petrarchian discourse deal with antitheses, this model would not be altogether compatible with Neoplatonism, which values the suffering of passionate love. To really understand the compatibility of originary resentment and French Petrarchism would require a complex look at the Neoplatonic theories to which they adhered— something the scope and aims of the current study will not allow. As mentioned in the last chapter, the tortures of passionate love are a touchstone, a key step to attaining higher entendement according to the Neoplatonic theories adhered to by poets of the Renaissance.
In seeking this divine Love Amour , passionate resentment remains the result; and, by this passionate resentment, a poet creates and graduates to a newer sphere of existence. Still an untested theory at present, perhaps Neoplatonic—and by association, French Renaissance—conceptions of passionate love are not that distantly removed from the original Petrarchian thematics after all. Appropriation, like the image evoked in verse, forever remains a leurre—and, the Petrarchian lyric remains an eternally virginal form.
For both, the fourteen verses of the sonnet would signify a ritualistic purification for the addressed woman, who is actually rendered virginal, or at least is purified, over the course of the poem. While this remains to be proven through analysis, the anthropological theory with which I will approach the Petrarchian sonnet in the French Renaissance appears structurally sound and supported in the work of experts in the field. And, to ensure that this dialogue does not become a proverbial dialogue des sourds, I will test both my theory of historically universal lyrical appeal and the anthropological primacy of the sonnet against these early models.
They do, however, bear great importance as they pioneer many of the stylistic traits proper to the unique form of the French Petrarchian sonnet, as my analyses of these fragmentary compositions attempt to reveal. Born roughly five years apart Marot c. For his part, Jean Marot, judging from E. Since the beginning of [the 20th] century, and particularly in the last fifteen years, most contributions to the debate on the sonnet in France have centered on the questions of dating and authorship and, secondarily, of the definition and designation of poetic forms.
The sheer volume and richness of a series of articles each modifying the findings of the last with new research is proof enough, in and of itself, of the supposed stakes of this point. Jasinski, in , would attribute the honor to Marot, claiming he wrote the first sonnet in A decade later would see a historical rigor presented to the question as Pierre Villey would promote Marot in ; N. Clement would question his dates but support the same general thesis in and Walter Bulock would take it a step further in It is in this same spirit—and in accepting the possibility of fault—that I will appeal to Jasinski in accepting Marot as the first to introduce the sonnet into the French Tradition.
Vignes continues to recognize in the work of Marot that: Indeed, based upon our explanations of the sonnet as lyrical ideal from the last chapter, the Petrarchian thematics of passionate love has nothing to do with the short, satirical poems, ending with a witty final turn. The sonnet form, nevertheless, lends itself quite nicely to the epigram. For another example of this, let us examine one particularly comical epigram by Marot to see this form at work. Tu as tout seul, Jehan Jehan, vignes et prez. Tu as tout seul ton cueur et ta pecune. Tu as tout seul le fruict de ta fortune.
Tu as tout seul ton boire et ton repas. Tu as tout seul toutes choses fors une: In fact, all that the poems in question would need to become a sonnet-epigram is an additional six-verse strambotto. Another problem with constituting the sonnet-epigram as a sonnet is that, following our formal analysis from the last chapter, a comic poet would not want a predetermined ending to his epigram the way a truly lyrical poet would. Will the epigram stop in the 8th verse or continue to 12? Just as ten verses constituted a perfect epigram—8 verses and a final couplet, so was the sonnet with its eight verses, a couplet and a final quatrain the perfect Italian epigram.
From the period when he fought alongside and was captured along with the king at Pavia in , this clandestine trip to Italy, running from the king a decade later, was very different. It was in this period of exile that Marot would compose his first three sonnets and translate the six Petrarchan sonnets, selections from which I will now analyze.
Et si languy quant suis en ta presence, Voyant ce lys au milieu des espines. O la doulceur des doulceurs feminines! The first stanza may tell of her absence and its effect on him as the poet-subject, however the laudatory nature of the four apostrophes that dominate the first three verses of the second stanza provide the poem with a somber, reverent, elegiac tone. Closed with a period, the syntax of this first tercet prepares for another, final tercet to close the sonnet.
As we see, even with a very different more medieval, Christian and antidotal thematics, the dual interruption of the repeating quatrains with the tercets—here, prepared by two couplets marotiques—allows the poem to abruptly change pace and ushers it to a resolute end. However, structurally, the purposes of the sonnet are served. The first two quatrains build upon each other to establish Pompone Trivulse as a capable and praiseworthy governor, who brought liberty and forture Thresors to his people—both representing syntactically individual units, as indicated by the period that concludes each.
Villey , Mayer and others assure us that this is not the same governor, but his nephew who was in office in —a point confirmed, with new findings, by Defaux n. Rather than suggesting praise, as the poet does in the first eight verses, with the doubled couplet marotique, he assures that due glory be delivered to the beloved governor.
With the marriage of the sonnet to the epigram, if Marot lost sight of the Petrarchian thematics of the form, he certainly maximized its structural ability to build to and impressively deliver a point. As the above analysis of two of his early sonnets demonstrates, Marot certainly recognized and understood the esthetic potential of the Italian verse form. A memory of his Italian exile, a form unproven and something, to him, particularly un-French, it is safe to assume it was simply not his form of predilection. McClelland offers the following explanation: And, even if Marot would ultimately prefer the liberties of the epigram, to deny his contributions to the sonnet verse form as it entered into France constitutes a considerable oversight.
Their negative conception of him, which has perpetuated itself through the French cultural heritage, really is unfortunate and unfair. In addition to French medieval genres, Marot had imitated Italian and classical models with considerable versatility—not only the elegy, eclogue, and epigram, but most especially the Petrarchan sonnet, which he introduced into France. Some see this act of killing the father as even more cynical and sinister: He thus becomes a straw man for Du Bellay, whose strong rhetoric singles him out—successfully, I might add—in an ad hominem assault that would radiate negatively on a great, nodal poet in the French tradition.
They recommended the cultivation in French poetry of the genres of Classical Antiquity and of Italy when Marot had already written the first French elegies, had introduced the epithalamium, the eclogue and the sonnet, had established the epigram and composed in his chansons and cantiques which differed only in name from those which Ronsard was later to call Odes.
As has been already established, Marot was a poet quite set in his ways. The sonnet-epigram was but a poetic experiment, a memory of a certain moment. The second tells of how and, more importantly, why he honors her: The pause at the enjambment and the following rejet explain why the king glorifies her: The king would not, however, content himself with these verses. Fascinated by Petrarch Defaux II: Bas et bannis sont honneur et facunde.
Je la cogneuz, qui maintenant la pleure: In the first two quatrains, anguish builds to anger in a vicious cycle that could continue, were it not for the momentary interruption of the CC rhyme in the 9th and 10th verses, where a sort of resolution is evoked. He is like a gemless ring and a field without flowers. Also, in this Marot translation, for the first time we see the classic tercet disposition of the French sonnet with the couplet marotique: The doubled, interrupting couplet of the first tercet is followed by a new and at this point free rhyme that is required to be taken up again as the sonnet reaches its conclusion.
This resolution is reached in the final tercet, where another new coupled rhyme EE makes sense of his anger before nature: May heaven, where Laura is, be adorned orner by his cries pleurs. Without being able to consummate his love physically, the poet creates despite himself, offering his only gift, his pleurs, to a woman incapable of receiving his love. Chose mortelle et belle bien peu dure. Mais si trop tarde aura tousjours regret. Closed by a period in the Marot translation yet only by a semicolon in the Petrarchan original , the first quatrain comes to a end as the second repeats the invitation—this time with added vigor and haste: In another quatrain completed with a periods, the poet 17 Naturally, there is a deep irony in the fact that a Petrarchan sonnet can be considered un-Petrarchian; however, as has been previously stated, by this point in history, Petrarch has become a mythical reference.
In the tercets, we discover that these two premises create no cause, however, for the reader to fret. The interrupting CC couplet marotique assures that there still is time to see: But, if too late, he will—like the poet himself 19 —be eternally in a state of lamentation: Granted, the Petrarchian translation is not vintage Marot; however, his contributions to the sonnet form are not to be overlooked either.
Molinier 83 It comes as no wonder that modern advocates for Mellin are so eager to claim the paternity of the French sonnet for their poet, who has accepted a position of relative secondarity. This he did while exhibiting a markedly less amount of enthusiasm for Petrarchism. Despite the claims of many scholars to the contrary and the 22 sonnets he did have published albeit after those of Marot , Mellin occupies a place of secondarity with regards to the sonnet. With Mellin proficient with both the epigram and the strambotto Vianey 58 , it seems the sonnet would be a logical fit for the poet.
Saint-Gelais doit en rester conquis. As was the case with Marot, perhaps it was too soon to expect a new poetic structure to influence an already established thematics. Nonetheless, barring new archival evidence, the common date will be accepted. Ronsard, would, in turn, use the piece to introduce his Odes. The history of bad blood between Ronsard and Mellin has much to do with the fact that: Son nom cogneu par ta veine immortelle, Qui les vieux passe, et les nouveaux espritz, Apres mil ans seroit en plus grand pris Et la rendroit le temps toujours plus belle.
However, Zilli suggests that: Over time, the two would come to terms and make peace—with Mellin offering this and another sonnet to Ronsard in Olmsted After all, Saint-Gelais was respected as a poetic innovator and a former poet of the Valois court. Zilli adds that at his funeral in The new quatrain speaks of her and that she was known by him—and bears the promise that through him she will be made all the more beautiful as time passes on.
Both quatrains being closed with a period, the rivalry, the race to death to praise this Dame becomes less important in the tercets, which we recall is a quatrain followed by a final couplet. The first tercet explains that either Mellin on earth or Marot in the afterlife should share their gifts: With death, this mot final is one of reconciliation and a mutual consent to abandon that which caused the rivalry in the first place—Her: In her introductory table and supporting notes, Zilli suggests that this sonnet, with its reference to alpine travels, may have been written as early as , when the poet traveled from Italy to the royal court lxii; 3n.
Let alone firstness, the very authorship of this sonnet has been debated as being from either Marot or Mellin.
If such is the case, this sonnet—even if it does not appear in and may mildly imitate Sannazaro 25 —holds the claim, with its goal of capturing the attention of the lady he is addressing, of being the first French instantiation of the Petrarchian Lyrical Imperative. As analysis will demonstrate, the thematics are quite Petrarchian as well: The answer lies in the terminology of the period. Whereas Marot, even with his structural innovations, was simply translating Petrarch, Mellin was imitating his Italian contemporary Sannazaro.
In all actuality, the two sonnets end very differently. As such, Mellin could have a certain claim to firstness in writing the first Petrarchian sonnet in French. For more on the imitation of Sannazaro, please refer to the Mayer article, pp.
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Juxtaposing ice with fire, man with nature and interior with exterior, Mellin taps into a very Petrarchian tradition. Alone, the first quatrain presents three such parallels in four verses; the distant mountains monts de veue ainsi loingtaine represent his displeasure mon long desplaisir , their great height is analogous to his desire Haul test leur chief, et hault est mon desir, v. While there is no woman directly addressed, there is most definitely an inaccessible object of desire that is the cause of his despair. However, the Petrarchian force of this sonnet may only exist at a thematic level.
Structurally, the sonnet diverges in several ways from the Petrarchian mold as, at a first level, the volta between quatrains and tercets fails to interrupt or introduce anything new to the poem. Love, this time, feeds on him like herds grazing in pastures. This early version, does, however follow the teleology of the structure, albeit epigrammatically delivering the mot final in the final verse. With all these similarities, there are differences.
His human passion proves more powerful than nature. Although arguably more Petrarchian in later versions, this early sonnet does mark a tangible nodal point in the development of the sonnet in France as it brings the Petrarchian thematics of passion to the verse structure.
So incapable is the poet of resisting, he wishes to convert that which harms him into that which helps in a very Neoplatonic twist on the pharmakos — again with the theme of three: The burning eyes he wishes to transform into a beautiful and salubrious fountain, the two piercing lips into two strands of joined coral and the gripping hand into sumptuous ivory—as for him, we learn, this is what she resembles. A beautiful love sonnet, this is one of the finest early examples of a structural and thematic execution of the Petrarchian Lyrical Imperative. The majority were written to please and praise members of the Valois court for whom he was the official poet.
Nonetheless, these poems—like the court itself—are not devoid of the mark of Petrarchism. Donques lisez avec heureux presaige Les los de Laure, esperant par vos faictz De verd laurier les honneurs plus perfaictz. A fantastic sonnet to speak of the nationalistic endeavors of Petrarchism as does Kennedy , this poem also presents us an evaluative presentation of Mellin and to what extent his Petrarchism was owing to—and superseded by—his political attachments to the crown.
He pleads with them to tell of his extensive power that brought riches and happiness to the people.
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However, his experiments with the verse form are quite praiseworthy. Still, his devotions were to other forms. Appearing after , however, discussion of these will be reserved for the Epilogue to this study. Bearing no traces of a Petrarchian thematics, this sonnet regains interest in its experimentation with the tercet pair. Let us examine this introduction to the volume: Raising questions of his Muse and French translations, Peletier taps into the Renaissance traditions of both translatio studii the first steps in the imitation of model authors as well as the fureur divine the inspiration that allows the poets to ascend to poetic realms: Refusing to sacrifice his poetic sense to the constraints of the verse form CCD EED , Peletier demonstrates a certain amount of poetic souplesse in maintaining the form, while manipulating it to serve his poetic ends.
This point comes out in the first quatrain and is continued throughout the sonnet: One must alter the diction and cadence of the language into which one is translating: Citing, in the second quatrain, the necessity to imitate Nature, he further foretells Du Bellay in providing an earlier organic allegory to language and translation. With Peletier, the Petrarchan sonnet was becoming Petrarchian as it began to bare its new French face.
Amor, che vedi ogni pensero aperto e i duri passi onde tu sol mi scorgi, nel fondo del mio cor gli occhi tuoi porgi, a te palese, a tutt'altri coverto. Upon a second reading, taking into account the syntactic clarity, structural harmony, and semantic simplicity cited by Kennedy, one realizes the geniality of the Peletier translation. Rhythmically and rhetorically French in form, Peletier renders the Petrarchan original without losing any of the thematic force. Also worth noting, however, is the fact that Philieul, who considered himself a lawyer and not a poet, also attempted to play with the rules of the sonnet: As a lawyer, Philieul, it is safe to say, was not responding to any lyrical imperative in his translations of Petrarch.
Still operating from a universal and constrained model, the French poets after Philieul and Peletier would have more liberty and opportunity to express their own poetic singularity in their poetic creations with the sonnet verse form. Olmsted is justified in stating that: But, flourish this seedling would, embedding its roots into all of France and expanding outward. And, like a vine that is planted in new soil, this form would take on the character of its surroundings— becoming, as prescribed in the models of Peletier and Du Bellay, distinctively French. With poets composing lyrical verse in the wake of the likes of Rabelais, Marguerite de Navarre and Marot, what has come to be known as the Coterie lyonnaise constitutes a historical imperative in formulating an anthropology of the sonnet.
Crossroads of Petrarchism and Neoplatonism Mounting northwestward, traversing the Alps and arriving in the burgeoning 16th- century city of Lyon, a favorite sojourn for Mellin and Marot between Italy and Paris, as well as the French Renaissance capital of commerce and culture, we debark at our own next analytical stopping point for following the socio-anthropological journey of Petrarchism and Neoplatonism into France. A city of banking, industry, textiles, learning, publishing, etc.
As unconventional and troublesome as negotiating its relations to the sonnet may be, Lyon is an essential crossroads for the development and the understanding of Petrarchism and the Petrarchian sonnet in the French Renaissance. It is here that the latest in the highly-fashionable Italian arts and letters made its initial entry—alongside the royal processions of the king—into France.
To this list, we could likewise add the literary works of Albert Baur, Paul Ardouin and Joseph Aynard that treat the renaissance lyonnaise. Lyon was, likewise, a favorite stopping place for many literary greats of the early 16th century: Marot and Mellin often passed through this cultural mecca in their travels from Paris to Italy; Marguerite de Navarre was located here for a spell; and, erudite journeyman Jacques Peletier was a frequent guest to Lyon.
Challenging at many levels, the presence of women composing poetry is a first eye-opener; but, the difficulties of classification do not end there. The way I propose to organize this current chapter is to: First, it testifies to a veritable presence of and respect for Neoplatonism in the Valois court of the s most particularly amongst the female readership.
Ils ne refusent pas le legs du Moyen Age. Schmidt defines the blason as follows: This is the stated objective; but, still more often than not, poets could not resist the urge to make women blush and their male poetic comrades grin. From a Neoplatonic theory of desire and suffering, the tear and sigh are obvious. As one could presuppose, in the same way that the forehead gives way to the mind and the bosom the heart, the eyebrow is a gateway to the all-important window to the soul, the eye. In other words, conversely, the Scevian dizain is nothing more than the French version of the Italian sonnet.
Alduy states it thus: Kennedy himself notices that: Ultimately, he exposes a mathematical explanation that carries some weight, noticing a trend that exists in the typical Scevian dizain: At the same time, it was also patently Neoplatonistic Weber Her Rymes, a mixed volume of huitains, dizains, longer verse, terza rime, etc. Ardouin, Saulnier and the recent Droz critical re-edition by Elise Rajchenbach all attest to this. In other words, is the suffering caused by the lyrical evocation of an inaccessible sacred just a means to ascend poetically towards the ideal of Amour?
Here is the dizain: Otherwise, Paul Ardouin has a study dedicated to the Scevian emblems: In the concluding quatrain, it becomes clear that will the Spirit is claimed the Body remains intact—the poet is still alive although his errant mind has been claimed by her: In the case of the Scevian dizain versus the Petrarchian sonnet, the former does not set up a repetitious symmetry of competing quatrain stanzas that are abruptly interrupted and then resolved with a concluding quatrain.
Following the logic of the anthropological model I proposed in Chapter Two, the Scevian dizain—while thematically germane to its transalpine predecessor—is, in the end, less dynamic of a structure, and for the reasons previously discussed, less anthropological in structure and less effective lyrically. Before closing the book on the Scevian dizain, it will be beneficial to examine one more example of this structure if only for the purposes of comparing it to other Lyonnais sonnets.
This particular dizain, the seventeenth of the volume, is also 26 In comparing both Scevian dizain and sonnet, Sieburth agrees with Larbaud as he offers the following explanation in defense of the former: Car ferme amour sans eux est plus que nue. In this dizain, a final distillation is achieved in the tenth verse as the poet affirms that like the earlier couplings, faith must accompany desire for love to have its place: There is very little neatness to the conclusion of the Scevian dizain—which may explain the fragmentary nature and lack of integration suggested by Frelick However, in setting the Scevian dizain aside, I would like to conclude in saying that this very fragmentary nature and, perhaps most especially, the organization of these individual rime sparse into a numerically-driven volume of parsimonious dizains treating the Petrarchan, Neoplatonic, lyrical and, ultimately, human theme of unattainable desire supports their cohesiveness in this collective volume.
Repeated themes—of the eye, the Basilisk, the city of Lyon, the Phoenix, the Girouette, etc. Nevertheless, I will reproduce and touch upon one such sonnet in order to demonstrate the workings of what almost seems like an oxymoron: Cecy chantant Dyane entre les Dieux, Disoit encore: Parquoy ayant, Dames, devant vos yeux Ces rayz tressaintz de sy haulte efficace, En les louant nostre honneur louerez.
Also including multiple mythological references, its Neoplatonic message is one of the transcendence and upward progression attained by Marguerite. The discovery of Diana as the poetic voice enables us, in a Scevian exercise of decryption, to make sense of the first two verses: A noteworthy and intriguing case, it is ultimately outside the interests of the current study.
In this work, there is a remarkably equal balance between Neoplatonic theories of love and the Petrarchian poetics of love. As we recall from Chapter Two, it was this very same Sappho who gave us the lyrical poetic genre in antiquity i. While this model may appear to turn our definition of the lyrical mode on its head, Baker does clarify and explain what she means: Petrarchistic love poetry embodies a certain attitude on the part of the lover respectful but ardent adoration of a chaste or indifferent woman , expressed in a characteristic style.
Although the direct ancestor of this poetry was Petrarch, it also appears to develop quite naturally from the courtly love tradition, and can incorporate elements drawn from classical models. Petrarchistic poetry fits acceptably into a social setting where a higher standard of sexual morality is expected of women than of men.
Clearly, a reversal of the petrarchistic situation, whereby the woman becomes the suitor, raises difficulties and imposes modifications. To a public accustomed to the convention of the tortured poet kneeling before his cold-hearted lady, it might seem distasteful or even ludicrous to contemplate a woman expressing hopeless love for an unresponsive man. Accordingly, we may expect to find women poets mourning misunderstanding, absence, desertion, or bereavement rather than unrequited love. Again, it was perfectly acceptable for a petrarchistic poet to address his verses to a real woman and include her name in the poem; it would be surprising to find a woman doing the same thing […].
Christine de Pisan—do exist. Women Sonneteers and Petrarchism, Mary B. This move fuses intellectual and erotic facets of female subjectivity, simultaneously displaying learning and wit and a spectacular role as desirable woman. It would not be a futile enterprise to study all twenty-four of her sonnets. O lut pleintif, viole, archet et vois: Tant de flambeaus pour ardre une femelle! II Despite the apparent euphoric and ecstatic fulfillment suggested by the passionate apostrophes that dominate the ottavo of this sonnet, closer examination reveals that never is—or has been—this desire fulfilled.
Passion in this poem is the pain of desire unfulfilled and the agony of unrequited love. Disposed as ABBA ABBA, the repeated, internal, embraced B rhyme consists of four adjectives that speak to this very longing espandues, atendues, despendues, tendues and the first three external rhymes A suggest rejection destournez, retournez, obstinez. The final verse before the 8: Likewise, there is only one adverb in the first eight verses, vainement; and it is repeated twice to express how futile this longing was.
Unfulfilled female desire is presented succinctly in this apostrophic complaint of time and energy wasted in hoping for the attention and love of a desired other. Clere Venus, qui erres par les Cieus, Entens ma voix, qui en pleins chantera, Tant que ta face au haut du Ciel luira, Son long travail et souci ennuieus. Donq des humains sont les lasses esprits De dous repos et de sommeil espris.
Et quand je suis quasi toute cassee, Et que me suis mise en mon lit lassee, Crier me faut mon mal toute la nuit. V Rather than a lover calling for an absent desired object, this lyrical appeal is still one whose voiced imperative desires are aimed at a non-present interlocutor: The explanation of what she sings, the futility of her lamenting verse, is carried over to the fourth verse that closes the first quatrain: In the opening ottava of this sonnet, there is a rather cogent syllogistic form in operation that places in opposition an all-powerful, female heavenly being who is love and a desiring, but lyrically impotent poetess who seeks this love through verse.
Infatuated with sleep and rest, the weak human spirit is not prone to the divine attributes that allow for love. The concluding quatrain is a feminine gesture of abandonment and lassitude. With a beautiful syllogistic pattern T1 T2 C —that goes far to proving the high-level of Petrarchian lyricism present in this poem—of a woman evoking deity and trying to transcend the confinement of her mortal body, she finally has to concede the fact that as a human all her efforts are vain.
Je vis, je meurs: Tout en un coup je seiche et je verdoye. Ainsi Amour inconstamment me meine: Et quand je pense avoir plus de douleur, Sans y penser je me treuve hors de peine. In this, the feelings of the poetess are mimetically doubled: As inconstant as the human being, Love is defined in this sonnet as the source of human errance.
Though not employing the syllogistic structure—as above—to which the sonnet form lends itself, this brief poem speaks to both the Neoplatonism of errance amoureuse as well as the Petrarchan antitheses that define the form. Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, rumoresque senum severiorum omnes unius aestimemus assis.
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Lesbia me dispeream nisi amat. May I perish if Lesbia does not love me. I am perpetually crying out upon her, but may I perish if I do not love her. Cornish ] All themes we hold as proper to the lyric are present in this brief poem. Poem V [Let us live, my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men. Suns may set and rise again. For us, when the short light has once set, remains to be slept the sleep of one unbroken night.
Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then another thousand, then a second hundred, then yet another thousand, then a hundred. Then, when we have made up many thousands, we will confuse our counting, that we may not know the reckoning, nor any malicious person blight them with an evil eye, when he knows that our kisses are so many. Let us now examine her scene of tragic, unfulfilled passion: Las, te pleins tu?
Chacun en soy en son ami vivra. Tousjours suis mal, vivant discrettement. Et ne me puis donner contentement, Si hors de moy ne fay quelque saillie. XVIII With the first three verses launched with verbs in the imperative tense and the first verse alone bearing three imperative commands, we certainly have issue with the grammatical realm of the sonnet: This is not, however, what we first notice.
Nevertheless, knowing what we do concerning the imperative realm, we know it is a request, a beseeching. A subjective je is making a request to a familiar, but still objective tu. Hoping to assuage the pains of her obstinate te pleins tu? Added to the four kisses offered in the first stanza, these ten equal fourteen—the same number of verses in a sonnet. From her interrogation, two verses of gerundive clauses donnant, meslans , lead to yet another imperative, this one collective: What had been separated, by stanzas, into a je and tu becomes a joint nous in this verse that concludes the quatrain pairs.
The couplet marotique that follows explains this highly philosophical and Neoplatonic idea that doubled the two lovers may become one: In other terms, the one can live in and through the other. Indeed, the entirety of his career is defined by the same errance that he theorized in his poetic and philosophical works. Naturally, using this division, our interests lie in the first poetic career of Tyard.
Again, as suggested by Charpentier, Tyard finds himself torn between the two: Il y mit des sonnets, et surtout des sonnets […]. Vignes concedes to the same: This may, however, also be explained by the Neoplatonic philosophy he brought to the sonnet form. McClelland, a significant choice: Tu y pourras recognoitre la flame Qui enflame si hautement ton ame, Mais non les traits de ta divine veine.
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While the evolution of the French lyric remains my focus when studying Tyard, I will content myself to quote Carron on the matter: The toi of this first stanza has passionate ardor and a flame flambeau from which the supplicant wishes to light his own. The CCD EED sestet that follows, holding to the couplet marotique, with its series of two couplets with a refrain, and acting as the conclusion to the two syllogistic premises suggested above.
Content to build on the shoulders of a previous lyrical giant, Tyard uses the syllogistic system of the sonnet as a discursive way 41 to both admit the imperfect imitation inherent in his verse as well as to recognize the ultimate lyrically-inherited futility of singing his unfullfillable erreurs amoureuses. Having identified and aligned himself with the arduous poetic task of his lyrical forebears, Tyard is now prepared to create his own sonnets that build on existing Petrarchan themes.
For one example of the Petrarchan moment of innamoramento, when the indelible mark of passion first stains the poet forever, the following Tyard sonnet is quite poignant: Both stanzas speak of the desired woman—again, Amour allegorized—and evoke of a certain part of her that traps the poet rendering him helpless.
From repeated and mirrored description in the two quatrains, the couplet marotique in the 9th and 10th verses moves to action: What it is exactly that exasperates Cupid is carried over across verses in an enjambment: In the concluding hemistich of the poem, we also discover the plight of the poet, what exasperates him: To examine one final Tyard sonnet, let us look at another form of errance as explored by Carron, pp. Yet another sonnet that complies to the Je and Tu stanzic division, this poem seems more reflective as the speaking subject pardons the errors erreurs of his perhaps oddly directly-addressed tongue—the tu of this sonnet—and explains its role and place in his passion: In the second stanza, the poet moves on to explain the order of this seduction and how the tongue ultimately contributed to the approaching and propositioning of the Dame.
First, naturally, it was the omnipresent eye that was attracted; and, as the verse goes on to explain, his liberty followed suit and was offered to the Dame. From the end of the 6th verse, however, the poet continues to explain the first fault or erreur of the tongue: The error that was forgiven in the first two verses is, therefore, not quite forgotten and re-named in the last two verses of the quatrain pair—a problem left to be resolved in the tercets.
Addressing his tongue, he twice repeats: At the conclusion of the poem, however, he remains in the same state as in the precedent Erreur: Repos de plus grand travail and Suite du repos de plus grand travail Jean de Tournes and Guillaume Gazeau, and Developing his poetic theories from a passive stance of repos rather than an active—if not misled—state of errance, his canzoniere is remarkable not so much for the quality of the poems, but rather for the interesting philosophical interpretations of Neoplatonism.
Indeed, no history of 16th-century France or the Renaissance worth reading lacks an entry on this highly-influential—even mythical—group of poets. Another may be Du Bellay himself, reduced to an anonymous cipher. Inventing Renaissance France, also addresses and elaborates on this epistolary, direct evocation of the fellow poet , a point to which we will soon return.
Vignes explains it thus: Then again, in true Renaissance form, Ronsard is noted for his many inconsistencies. Visions of flux and stability in the Poetry of Pierre de Ronsard. In a position of defending his Deffence against the verbal onslaught of Aneau and other lesser critics Ferguson , Du Bellay found himself, out of necessity, stringently applying the principles of his theories on French poetry and the French language in his own verse. While this contestation would likely be received as an insult by many, for Du Bellay, this was likely the highest honor to which one could aspire: Imitation was the name of the game for Du Bellay and imitate he unabashedly did.
This is, of course, debatable, and I will take up this point once again. Still, it also bears the aforementioned damning? Son attention se concentre toujours sur les formes. This time, Du Bellay would feel compelled to cite sections of his Deffence and to explain his exercise of imitation: Auttori nuovamente raccolte and Delle rime di diversi nobili huomini et eccellenti poeti nella lingua thoscana to which Du Bellay had recourse n.
Imitation and inspiration do not only meet theoretically in the Avis au lecteur, they are also intricately bound within the verses of the sonnets themselves. Orne mon chef, donne moy hardiesse De te chanter, qui espere te rendre Egal un jour au Laurier immortel. Structurally working through his quatrains, listing and cataloguing all that he does not want Je ne quiers pas… , in the first quatrain, he begins the second by explaning what he wants even less Encores moins veulx-je….
Finally, in the 7th and 8th verses he begins to indicate what he does want: The explanation of what exactly this is and why he desires it, however, does not come until after the volta. Following the hesitation between verses 8 and 9, even without a couplet marotique and in a Petrarchan CDE CDE disposition , Du Bellay powerfully expresses his subjective desire in the first tercet with an anaphoric, quasi-imperative appeal to the metaphoric O tige heureux: Preferring the Athenean olive branch over the reed of Cypris, Du Bellay demonstrates that he values the transcendent, the mind Athena , over the carnal body Venus —inasmuch as transcendence is his goal, Olive is established, in Neoplatonic terms, as a poetic ideal spiritual rather than carnal that will allow for such.
Asking to be crowned with the Olive branch 12 and to receive an increase of vigor, his stated objective is to sing her praises and to one day make his Olive of the Olivier one day equal the Laura of the Laurier. In his borrowings from the great models of the past, Du Bellay hopes to equal, in French, the successes of Petrarch in Italy. Petrarchian in form, if not in thematics Du Bellay does not directly address a Dame but implores deity through his imperative missive , the sonnet moves from the expression of personal desire in the two quatrains, to direct evocation in the first tercet and an imperative demand in the final—all hopefully presented, even amplified, in the French vernacular.
Also in the New Testament, the Olive tree is used metaphorically by Paul Romans 11 in relation to the House of Israel, into which wild branches Gentiles may hope to be grafted. Employing agricultural tropes himself in is Deffence, what is Du Bellay proposing but to graft pagan Greco-Roman appendages to the branches of Christian France? It could be said that in this sonnet, Du Bellay traces a bit of the chronology of the Petrarchian sonnet, which leads, in this case, to his own sonnet.
Rather than evaporating, the allegory evolves. However, as a required conclusion to the Petrarchian Lyrical Imperative, the poet realizes that the unique love of the moment of innamoramento will remain inaccessible. Borrowing and evolving the Petrarchian form and thematics with certain tropes from Ariosto , Du Bellay recounts his own tale of innamoramento, of errance, and of inattainable desire that quite adroitly support his claims of inspiration from his Deffence. In the tercets of the last sonnet, it may have been remarked that the poet, for whatever reason, employed the more formal register of Vous rather than the typical familial Tu as he does elsewhere in addressing his dearly beloved.
Let us first examine Sonnet LI: Lors me diras, voyant ma peine telle: Addressing his dame Olive as O toy to begin this poem, he presents the two figures, as we can anticipate, to explain their connection to his feelings for her. Not only are both figures giants, but both myths deal with fire which, no doubt has resonance when dealing with passionate desire, the theme of the Petrarchian lyric. The other contemplative sonnet would first appear the following year in the elongated edition of Moving on to the tercets, where there is a couplet marotique, he one again issues an imperative in verse 9: Citing Petrarchian Icy Fire, he concludes this first tercet with a cataloguing of his interminable pains: Then, in the final concluding tercet, which is introduced by the transition Lors, the poet explains the cruelty of his dame, who is coldly rational in her rejection of him, as he projects her response [Tu] me diras… to his comparison rather than his pain: CXIII One of the most beautiful, melodious sonnets of the French tradition, this poem is also one of the most Neoplatonic in its philosophy and its employment of the Petrarchian thematics.
At a surface level, this poem clearly addresses the ephemeral nature of human life; however, analyzed in more depth, its opening verse introduces a unique take of mortality. A higher, more elevated sphere is possible for the soul, but how does one access it? To continue to express the preferable locus of the soul over that of the body, Du Bellay sets up a conclusion to the problem established in the two syllogistic quatrain premises.
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In a beautiful, anaphoric couplet marotique that responds to the questions after the 8: This is also supported by Psalm After the Flood, however, lives were much shorter. However, the enjambment in the final verse brings the two together in a neat conclusion: Rather than seek immediate gratification, the soul has the potential to transcend this mortal sphere, whose beauty should not, despite the limitations and pains of mortality, go to waste.
Finally, to draw on one last example and showcase another key feature of the Bellayan sonnet and to provide and excellent segue into our discussion of Ronsard, let us quickly examine the sonnet analyzed by Kennedy, Sonnet LX: Fameux harpeur et prince de noz odes, Laisse ton Loir haultain de ta victoire, Et vien sonner au ravage de Loire De tes chansons les plus nouvelles modes. Porte pour moy parmy le ciel des Gaulles Le sainct honneur des nymphes Angevines, Trop pesant faix pour mes foibles epaules.
Marot, Saint-Gelais, Peletier or even Du Bellay may have introduced the Petrarchian form to France; however, it is Ronsard who built his poetic glory on the verse form and truly embellished the French language, creating a uniquely French genre in the Amours. Still, it could be argued that this act was more one of self-aggrandizement as he hoped to secure his position as the great writer of the epic, as Homer is to Greece, Virgil to Rome, Ariosto to Italy, etc. Of course, Ronsard never got beyond the fourth of the ten anticipated books of this epic.
His ambitions were not concerned with the embellishment of France or the French language, but of becoming the great French poet, the Prince of Poets. This reputation was not founded without a bit of opportunism on the part of Ronsard. To conceive of Ronsard without the Petrarchian myth of innamoramento was impossible, and as stated by Gendre in the article mentioned above: She was all virtue.
In his recent text on the publication of poetic recueils in the midth-century France, Daniel Maira explains that, with Cassandre, Ronsard took all the necessary steps to displacing Petrarch and becoming the next great sonneteer: Becoming Petrarch through the Amours was not as simple as it may seem, especially when one considers the differences in personalities from the eternally fickle, fluctuating and inconstant Ronsard to his faithful Italian forebear.
Here is another place where the i in Petrarchian becomes so important. Petrarch was more respectful than to mention the corporeality of his divine Laura, to discuss her in sensual terms. Dante, likewise, would never dream of reducing the divine Beatrice to a carnal form. Thus, one thing that separates the Ronsardian Amours from the Petrarchian canzoniere is this added sensuality. Joukovsky continues, first addressing the Odes: Cette fougue est plus vive dans le premier recueil, les Amours de Cassandre.
Joukovsky 13 , 27 this contention would be a starting point for the Anti-Petrarquisme of Or, as Denizot concludes: Rousseau , due to his aristocratic, heroic and chevaleresque leanings as a poet, 28 the theme of conquest is also germane to and prevalent in the Ronsardian poetics. This noble conquest required likewise a noble register and a demonstration of the great humanist value of erudition. Fluctuating between genres, moods, lovers, etc.