Monday, February 1, 2016

In what sense is Petrarch insincere in Sonnet 18 (sonnet inside)?a. Through professing his desire to be alone, he really craves the attention of...

If those four are your options, I would have to go with
C.  It is the only one that makes sense.


To me, what the
poem is saying is basically "you are so wonderful and beautful that I can't even manage
to write a poem about or talk about you -- you're just too good for
words."


If that's what he's talking about in this poem,
then only C really makes sense.  He's not really trying to get attention for himself so
it's not A.  He never claims his love is a secret so it's not B.  He doesn't praise
himself in the last lines so it's not D.


C kind of makes
sense because he does flatter her even though he can't actually describe
her.

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