THE ENGLISH SONNET FORM IN THE XVI th -XVII th CENTURIES (CANONS AND MODIFICATIONS)Summary. The first part of the work is devoted to the language peculiarities of the sonnets, in England of the XVI -XVII centuries. Vocabulary, orthography, pronunciation and grammar were analyzed in detail. Much attention is given to the comparison of the EME forms with the modern ones. The second part of the work is devoted to the architectonic models of English sonnets of the XVI th -XVII th centuries, which were developed by Wyatt, Surrey and Spenser. The peculiarities of rhyming and the main metric -rhythmic configurations of lines are considered thoroughly. The ways of adapting the Petrarchist models of verse to the peculiarities of the English language were also singled out and described.The system of images of the English sonnets is in the focus of the third part of the chapter. The traditional images of Petrarch and his followers are compared to those modified by famous English sonneteers, including Shakespeare. The influence of Neoplatonism and Protestantism on the work of E. Spenser is analysed in detail.
The description of the portrait of a literary character plays an important role in creating the overall image of the character. The urgency of the study is due to the anthropocentric direction of linguistic studies since reflection and interpretation of the existing world and descriptions of portraits play an important role in this. In this sense, it is necessary to analyze the use of linguistic units in the description of portraits of characters from English fiction and poetry in the sixteenth-nineteenth centuries and to know the influence of past trends in the present. During the study several general scientific methods were used: analogy, generalization, observation, comparison, experiment, analysis, and the historical method. The study analyzed portrait descriptions in English poetry and prose from the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries and found that writers used a variety of symbols to capture the author's intentions in characters. Often, the authors used somatic vocabulary to represent the appearance of the characters, the less used lexical units of the general characteristics of the portrayal of the characters and the least to represent the appearance of the characters used the kinetic vocabulary.
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