{"id":141,"date":"2017-02-20T11:17:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T16:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=141"},"modified":"2017-02-20T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T16:17:56","slug":"141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/romancing-the-sonnet\/141\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I carried our discussion of space from class on Thursday, into our reading for today. In Canto three, Spenser places a lot of emphasis on Merlin&#8217;s home and the wall he intended on building. In a way he relies on his house and its location to convey characteristics about Merlin. I wonder what his purpose was, of relying so heavily upon description of space instead of direct characterization. It reminds me of how in Shakespeare&#8217;s sonnets there never was a direct speaker or adresses, placing the focus largely on the action and images created. As the Faeire Queene is, after all, a narrative used to describe virtues, maybe reliance on space is for the same function; so that they can be applied to everyone and importance can be placed on\u00a0the message through action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I carried our discussion of space from class on Thursday, into our reading for today. In Canto three, Spenser places a lot of emphasis on Merlin&#8217;s home and the wall he intended on building. In a way he relies on his house and its location to convey characteristics about Merlin. I wonder what his purpose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romancing-the-sonnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}