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| To His Coy Mistress: Andrew Marvell |
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Carpe diem
trying to persuade a woman to have sex with him
although she is acting coy
convince her that time is running out and they must seize the day |
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| To Virgins, to Make Much of Time: Robert Herrick |
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Carpe diem
Warns the young to live while you can and when they age to not wait around
At the end of youth one must find a spouse in order to keep the natural flow of things |
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| Meditation 17: John Donne |
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All mankind is of one author and is one volume
You are not an island, every time you do something you affect everyone
“when the bell rings do not ask for who, it is for you (everyone)” |
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A 3 person God – Trinity
The breath= spirit
Knock= God
Shine= Jesus
Admitting to being a sinner and begging God to free him from his “prison” that is his sin |
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Death is not as dreadful as most perceive it to be
Condescending feel for Death
Paradox: seeming contradiction (death dies) (biblical reference to the verse saying that the last enemy to die shall be death) |
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| A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning: John Donne |
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most people's relationships are built on purely sensual things
if they are not together at all times, the relationship breaks down.
the love between him and his wife is different –
a "love of the mind" rather than a "love of the body".
This love can endure even though sometimes the lovers cannot be close to each other at all times
Compares their love to a old man dying (conceits)
screams and tears that "ordinary" lovers display when they must part is shown to be simply an act, with no real emotion in it
compares the love to the “mortal earth” (hurricanes and natural disasters)
Conceits used:
• Donne and wife > celestial bodies > the points of a compass.
• The wedding ring > the path of a planet > the alchemical symbol for gold > the path traced out by a compass
• The emotions of the common people > earthquakes and tempests |
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Term
| Sonnet 130: Shakespeare |
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Shakespearian
“Anti-Petrarchan Sonnet”
The one we drew the pictures for |
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Shakespearian
Compares his love to a summer day
She is better because time effects nature
The summer is too short and too hot and there are cloudy days
Stanzas
• 1. Comparing her to a summer day
• 2. Summer day = Not good
• 3. She is better
• Couplet: as long as she is his and the poem is still read (last forever), she will be beautiful |
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| The Nymph’s Reply To the Shepherd: Sir Walter Ralegh |
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Very practical
Said that she would move in if he could give her the world (alludes to gold and riches that he obviously cannot/does not offer her)
Realism
She see’s nature for what it truly is |
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| The Passionate Shepherd to His Love: Christopher Marlowe |
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Pastoral poem- portrays or evokes rural life, usually in an idealized way
Rural life
“Carpe Diem”
Wants her to come live with him in the country |
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| Sonnet 75: Edmund Spenser |
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Shakespearian
He is very prideful in his attempt to write the woman’s name in the sand
Trying to make her immortal
She is going to die and she tells him that his attempts are in vain (realist)
He ends up eternalizing her in the poem
• Actual vs. mythical world |
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| Whoso List to Hunt?: Sir Thomas Wyatt |
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Petrachan
Problem: the narrator cannot continue to look for a female because it is like catching the wind in a net
Solution: you do not touch someone who belongs to the king
Thought to be about Anne Boleyn, with whom Wyatt had a relationship before the King became interested in her.
• Hynde- deer |
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