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Undergraduate 2
04/29/2009

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Twelfith night
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Shakespeare-- theme appearances can be deceived,disguis
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The flea 
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Donne*

conceit

very good argument for the time 

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The sun rising 
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Donne* 

aubade, apostrophe 

love has no time

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A valediction forbidding mourning 
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Donne 

conciet

love can change and be stretched  

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Sonnet 10 
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Donne

death be not proud 

when you die you go to your afterlife

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Meditation 17 
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Donne 

theme when one person dies it effects all of us, we all effect each other

"no man is an island..."

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The altar 
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Herbert *

it is the center but stands for the heart

 

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Easter wings 
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Herbert*

tribulation is treasure 

in the shape of wings 

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The pulley 
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Herbert 

conciet

life,religion,faith

allusion to pandoras box

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Love 
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Herbert 

convo with god

god speaks a lot in the end 

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To his coy mistress 
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Marvell 

he is saying sleep with me or you will die and the worms will get you...

we have to move faster than the sun 

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The definition of love 
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Marvell

completeness of the world is love

depressing

he says "love is parallel"

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Song to Celiea
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Ben Jonson *

"take the kiss from her cup"

she is so beautiful but she turns him down and he doesn't stop pursing her.

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The the memory of my beloved the author mr will shakespeare and what he hath left us 
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Ben Jonson 

heroic couplets, iambic pentameter

the love of will shake

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delight in disorder 
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Herrick 

sprezzatura

he likes her because she is not perfect

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to the virgins to make much of time 
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Herrick 

 

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song 
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Suckling *

distraught and aggressive

why do you look so awful she didnt like you when you looked good

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out upon it 
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Suckling 

 a mockery

a superficial love

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to lucasta going to wars 
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Lovelace 

paradox leaving for war because i love you

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to althea from prison
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Lovelace 

being free, loyalty

"stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars..."

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on shakespeare 
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Milton *

 

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how soon hath time 
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Milton

allusion to biblical "master"

life is flying by so fast but its going to happen so don't worry about it

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When i consider how my light is spent 
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Milton 

he is blind

connection to the angels waiting for jesus 

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paradise lost 
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Milton* 

 he is goin to justify the ways of god to man

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the pilgrims progress 
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Bunyan*

allegorical

the most published book other than the bible

loyalty to old traditions

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Rambler no. 5 
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Samuel Johnson *

essay

fear of ones self 

live in the moment

"very few men know how to take a walk"

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A dictionary of the english language 
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Samuel johnson *

first dictionary

40,000

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The lady's dressing room 
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Swift

theme women have thigns to hide humans are gross

hyperbole

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in response to the lady's dressing room 
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Lady montague 

he couldnt get up with the prostitute so he got mad 

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A modest proposal 
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Swift 

a satire

to help notice something is wrong but in a funny way

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The rape of the lock 
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Pope*

satire on a true story

mock epic

heroic couplet

trivial beauty has immense power

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Ode on a disatant prospect of eden college 
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Gray

horation ode 

depressive

100 lines 10 stz. 10 lines each

1-5 kids happy

6-10 they are going to be miserable

"i am a man a sufficient excuse for being unhappy"

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Elegy written in a country churchyard 
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Gray 

theme given full potential you can do good

"full many a flower is born to blush unseen"

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My cat jeoffry
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