a homeless person
to feel sorrow for someone else
to be conceited
a deep regret over one's actions
to be guilty of or sorry for
happiness
the manner in which
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The Question and Answer section for Petrarch: Sonnets is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Patrarch compares falling in love to being captured.
It was on that day when the sun’s ray was darkened in pity for its Maker that I was captured, and did not defend myself, because your lovely eyes had bound me, Lady.
He compares the eyes to...
To Petrarch's narrator, language can be used not only to express emotion but to awaken it in others. Consider Sonnet #101 ("Ways apt and new to sing of love I'd find), the narrator asserts in the first two lines that if he expressed love in just...
