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How do these three poems use the conventions and limitations of the sonnet form to explore the relationship each is discussing?
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How do these three poems use the conventions and limitations of the sonnet form to explore the relationship each is discussing? 'If thou must love me, let it be for nought/Except for love's sake only'. What was 'love's sake,' and how was it to be expressed? Conventionally it was through the idealised and equally limiting form of the Petrarchan sonnet. Its tight knit structure of metre, rhyme and lineation however left the space for expression severely restricted. The relationships in the three sonnets stated, nethertheless use this structure, only to undermine it in particular ways, tying its 'blue thread' of convention into a complicated knot. This knot when unwound, shows how each of the sonnets confronts the limitations of the conventional sonnet form, using them either to tell their lover how they feel, or to explore an illicit affair, or even the breakdown of a marriage. Traditionally the sonnet is...
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