Question: Write a two page essay, use textual citations from the poem. Analyze the following sonnet by Petrarch
here is the poem :
O you who hear within these scattered verses
the sound of sighs with which I fed my heart
in my first errand youthful days when I
in part was not the man I am today;
for all the ways in which I weep and speak
between vain hopes, between vain suffering,
in anyone who knows love through trials,
in them, may I find pity and forgiveness.
For now I see, since I've become the talk
for long a time of people all around
(it often makes me full of shame),
that from my vanities comes fruit of shame
and my repentance and the clearest knowledge
that worldly joy is a quick passing dream.