The Sonnet
The Sonnet
The Sonnet
COMPREHENSION
1) What are the rhyme schemes of the two
sonnets?
2) The sonnets are composed of a series of
contradictions called ‘binary oppositions’.
Underline the examples in Wyatt’s sonnet.
3) Is Wyatt’s sonnet simply a translation of
Petrarch’s, or is it something more?
4) Which of the sonnets do you think best
expresses the poet’s sense of hopelessness?