![]() Like many of his sonnets, Sonnet CXXIV describes Petrarch’s unrequited love for Laura (the daughter of a Provençal nobleman). Her tears were crystal–and her breath was flame. Her teeth were pearls–the rose’s softest glowĭwelt on that mouth, whence woke to speech grief’s sighs Wherein Love nestled, thence his dart to aim: Her brows with ebon arch’d–bright stars her eyes, ![]() ![]() Her locks were gold, her cheeks were breathing snow, Her plaintive, soft laments my ear so bless’d,ĭid thus the threatening clouds in smiles array. Her air such graceful sadness did display, In living charms, no genius could portray: HE RECALLS HER AS HE SAW HER WHEN IN TEARS. ![]() The song also bears a striking similarity to Petrarch’s Sonnet CXXIV from Rime Sparse, which I will examine first before returning to ‘Hotel Heart’: Featured on the American TV reality show ‘Dance Moms’, Sharon Kenny’s song ‘Hotel Heart’ (2011) is influenced by the Petrarchan blazon to stunning effect. Writing in 14th Century Italy, Francesco Petrarca’s or Petrarch’s sonnets not only influenced 16th Century English sonnet sequences but endure today in unlikely places. ![]()
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