FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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turn
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conceit
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paradox
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Detailed explanation-1: -In poetry, the volta, or turn, is a rhetorical shift or dramatic change in thought and/or emotion. Turns are seen in all types of written poetry.
Detailed explanation-2: -What is a Rhetorical Shift in a Poem? In poetry, this rhetorical shift or mood change is called the volta (which is Italian for turn) and indicates a change in emotion or thought. Traditionally, the volta is associated with the sonnet form, but it can occur in any poem.
Detailed explanation-3: -Italian word for “turn.” In a sonnet, the volta is the turn of thought or argument: in Petrarchan or Italian sonnets it occurs between the octave and the sestet, and in Shakespearean or English before the final couplet.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sometimes specific words, such as “but, ” “yet” or “and yet, ” will indicate a shift in a poem. For example, the couplet in Shakespeare’s sonnet, “My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun, ” begins with the transition words, “And yet, ” implying the beginning of the turn.
Detailed explanation-5: -Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.