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| abrupt gap in musical texture |
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| using an appropriate adjective to characterize a person or thing |
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| created skeltonical poems. 6 syllable lines could be groupos of 2 or more lines. wrote a poem about colyn cloute whom we would know nothing about if it werent for that poem. in this he talked about the corrupt society and churches (blasphemy!) |
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| entertainment after dinner |
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| refered to Queen Elizabeth- glorious one |
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| spiritualization of passion, imagery and secret love |
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| lyric poetry about courtly love, sonnets, 14 lines |
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| ballad and sonnet to england |
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| You are a blank slate and everything effects you so everything around you should be pure |
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| Short and funny looking but very polite and sensitive to manners. Person whose bad opinion should be avoided. Obsessed with translating the Iliad and the odyssey into couplets and inserting more of his reasoning. wrote the essay on man (1st epistol). Rape of the Lock. |
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| Whatever is, is right. God started everything and just left everything with natural laws as the guide |
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| use the apparatus of an epic but is written about trivial things - usually about dignity and getting offended. |
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| Epic poem about 2 people flirting and in the end the guy cuts off a lock of her hair. She is offended and hurt by his creepy actions because it destroyed her dignity. |
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| Troubled by religious conflict, 30 years war, plague, matched reformation. 1666 great fire of london - St. paul cathedral burns down, only one monument left standing - John Donne's. He was surrounded by fire many think because he had such a fire for Women and God equally. |
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| outside the physical world. Images in poetry that cannot be understood fully in emotions - must be understood in context and shows emotion through intellect. |
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| Metaphysical poet who became religious later in life. He imagined the understanding of spirit is begun in the pleasures of the flesh. |
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| A valediction forbidding mourning |
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| Thought that good men died painlessly and peacefully. Love is holy - holy mysteria. His love above changes, absence does not change it. missing the physical is not as important as missing the soul. The distance is expansion not breach. Two lovers are one, they move in unison. Connected=everything turns out right. |
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Phanopoeia - imagery
Logopoegia - Meaning
melopoeia - Sound (Accent and Tone) |
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| "Sucked on Country" Screwing - I was not important until I met you. When he looks at her, she is his whole world. The love must be equally shared or its over. DONNE |
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| The sun cuts into his time with his lover. yet lovers are outside of time therefore the sun cannot rule them. All this is important to him is in his bed (his lover) the bed and its contents are all that matters - compares the feeling to god. DONNE |
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| about seduction. The flea mixes the blood why can't he? Flea is the symbol of marriage - him, her and a baby. Kill the flea - if it doesn't matter we shouldn't get married anyways. DONNE |
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| Reminiscent of saints in roman catholic church. bracelet symbolizes the he is waiting for judgment day and lover will be able to find each other. If found by Catholics she is Mary he is Jesus . You cant explain love. DONNE |
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| Reminiscent of saints in roman catholic church. bracelet symbolizes the he is waiting for judgment day and lover will be able to find each other. If found by Catholics she is Mary he is Jesus . You cant explain love. DONNE |
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| 28th century. Wrote essays on important works that came before him. JOHNSON consolidated the argumentin THE LIVES OF THE POETS, where he noted (with reference to Cowley)that 'about the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race ofwriters that may be termed the metaphysical poets'. He went on todescribe the far-fetched nature of their comparisons as 'a kind of discordiaconcors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occultresemblances in things apparently unlike'. |
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| he is the world. There is a vegetable spirit, animal spirit, and angelic spirit (this one is lamenting sinful ways, need space to repent and cry over sins, lust made him even worse and he needs the fire of god. God's fire is pure and cleansing. |
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| Asking God why he made him imperfect and able to decay. wants god to save him |
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| another name for the metaphysical |
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| Sits beside god. great virtue is love. most sublime love is with god. |
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| death similar to sleeping, death could be a reward, death puts up with chances and murder -weal death does not really clam - you wake for eternal life. DONNE |
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| Riding westward. Nature influences what god has made. not able to face god because the crucifixion was so powerful and painful. (i need to read this) DONNE |
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| Metaphysician. Wrote The Collar - boring and nothing he wants. wants to change his life. God calls him back and keeps him devoted. Asks questions he already knows the answer to and gets that conclusion by the end. Very caught up with how wonderful god is. Sunday school type writer. Always joyful about it. |
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When I consider how my light is spent -
he goes blind so he is asking god why this has happened. His blindness must be not so bad if God let it happen. The best servants of god are those who just live without complaining. God doesn't need people to serve him- everyone is predestined. He runs from empiricism - just believe in god. discovery could lead him to thank sinful thoughts. Me Though I Saw. - can almost see his wife in his mind but then his mind goes blind again. she dies. |
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| jesus is meant to be the hero of this poem. "Heavenly muse telling him to write this" asks holy spirit to help him. "justify the ways of God to men". Satan wants to attempt again to battle God. He is worried God will vanquish him and his angels, unfailing opposition. Sizer of Satan decreases ofver time because he is deceiving and fiths guerilla warfare against god using humans. Satan understands he is doing the wost deed in history just to get back at God. Remorse for the vengeance he wants more than anything. Satan finds Adam and Eve too beautiful while they are sleeping to harm them - he loves them too so there is personal conflict and tragedy. Satan is beautiful because beauty tempts people to do bad things. Satan tells her that god wants her to eat the fruit and that he has eaten it and knows she wont die. Feeds her Ego. Sets up Dichotomy - (obedience and question) |
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| one of the first American poets. separates her writing from men's in prologue - especially Milton. wrote only about her experiences. |
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| 18th century. century of the revolution. arch cavalier. loyalist. Several girlfriends put in his poetry. |
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| Metaphysical poets origin |
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| DRYDEN was the first to apply the term to 17th-centurypoetry when, in 1693, he criticized Donne: 'He affects theMetaphysics... in his amorous verses, where nature only should reign;and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts.' He disapproved of Donne's stylistic excesses, particularly his extravagant conceits(or witty comparisons) and his tendency towards hyperbolicabstractions. JOHNSON consolidated the argumentin THE LIVES OF THE POETS, where he noted (with reference to Cowley)that 'about the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race ofwriters that may be termed the metaphysical poets'. He went on todescribe the far-fetched nature of their comparisons as 'a kind of discordiaconcors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occultresemblances in things apparently unlike'. Examples of thepractice Johnson condemned would include the extended comparison oflove with astrology (by Donne) and of the soul with a drop of dew (byMarvell). |
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| the metaphysical poets adopted a style that is energetic, uneven, and rigorous. (Johnson decried its roughness and violation of decorum, the deliberate mixture of different styles.) It has also been labeled the 'poetry of strong lines'. In his important essay, 'The Metaphysical Poets' (1921), which helped bring the poetry of Donne and his contemporaries back into favour, T. S. ELIOT argued that their work fuses reason with passion; it shows a unification of thought and feeling which later became separated into a 'dissociation of sensibility. Their work was characterized by inventiveness of metaphor. Their style was characterized by wit and metaphysical conceits--far-fetched or unusual similes or metaphors, such as in Andrew Marvell’s comparison of the soul with a drop of dew. Platonic concepts found in metaphysical poetry is the idea that the perfection of beauty in the beloved acted as a remembrance of perfect beauty in the eternal realm |
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