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What is Petrarch comparing in Sonnet III? Provide evidentiary support using 2-3 specific phrases
from the sonnet to show how Petrarch extended the central metaphor throughout the poem. Your
response should be a paragraph of 5-8 sentences.

Sonnet III that is from the poet Petrarch refers to the first time Petrarch sees Laura in church on a
blessed day in 1327 and gives us to see an extended metaphor. Consequently, as an extended
metaphor, in Sonnet III, Petrarch compares falling in love to being trapped and then struck by an arrow.
Indeed, in the first lines of the poem and particularly in lines 4, 5 and 6, Petrarch refers to falling in
love and states that “I fell a captive, Lady, to the sway of your swift eyes: that seemed no time to stay
the strokes of Love”. In the second part of the poem, from line 9, he compares falling in love to being
trapped and struck by an arrow. For example, in lines 9 and 10, about being trapped and struck by an
arrow, he states that “Love caught me naked to his shaft, his sheaf, The entrance for his ambush…”.
Then, in lines 13 and 14, Petrarch states that “so to strike me stricken so, yet from you fully armed
conceal his bow”.

We can conclude we have text evidence for this extended metaphor as the comparison of falling in
love and being trapped and then struck by an arrow is throughout the poem. This Petrarch comparison
answers to the meaning of extended metaphor as Petrarch comparison is at length and in various ways
throughout many lines and a sizeable portion of his poem.