Amor MI Sprona in Un Tempo Ed Affrena
The poem explores the speaker's emotional turmoil, torn between love and reason. The speaker describes being overwhelmed by passion, which has taken control of their senses, making them forget reason and virtue. They acknowledge that this all-consuming love is a form of madness, yet they are helpless to resist its power.
By Francesco Petrarca · First published 1343 · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Romanticism, Philosophical Poetry · 193 words
First lines
HE HEARS THE VOICE OF REASON, BUT CANNOT OBEY.
Love in one instant spurs me and restrains, Assures and frightens, freezes me and burns, Smiles now and scowls, now summons me and spurns, In hope now holds me, plunges now in pains: Now high, now low, my weary heart he hurls, Until fond passion loses quite the path, And highest pleasure seems to stir but wrath -- My harass'd mind on such strange errors feeds! A friendly thought there points the proper track, Not of such grief as from the full eye breaks, To go where soon it hopes to be at ease, But, as if greater power thence turn'd it back, Despite itself, another way it takes, And to its own slow death and mine agrees.
MACGREGOR.
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Francesco Petrarca
- Date: 1343 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Romanticism, Philosophical Poetry, Sonnet, Meditative Poetry
- Length: 193 words
- Structure: 1 section, 3 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Standard (8th-9th Grade)
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Genres
- Lyric Poetry — The work is characterized by personal expression of emotions and thoughts, typical of lyric poetry.
- Romanticism — Themes of love, passion, and emotional conflict align with the principles of Romanticism.
- Philosophical Poetry — The exploration of reason versus passion reflects philosophical inquiries into human experience.
- Sonnet — The structure and style suggest it may be part of a sonnet sequence, common in Petrarch's works.
Tags
Italian Literature · Renaissance Poetry · Love Poems · Sonnet Collection · Classical Literature · Medieval Poetry · Romanticism · Courtly Love · Lyrical Poetry · 14th Century Literature · Florentine Poetry · Petrarchan Sonnets
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