146 Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth Flashcards
1
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Summarise:
1 quatrain
2 quatrain
3 quatrain
Couplet
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- Soul as having to contend with rebelious body, setting up binary of outer lavishness with inner poverty
- Pointing out how not on earth for very long, so better off investing in soul
- Tells soul to do the opposite, fast body to sustain soul
- Will thereby feed on death - death feeds on the lavishness of the bodily. Therefore opposite means feeding on death, gaining eternal life
2
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Pounts of interest?
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Addressing soul, questioning and then instructing. Internal debate. Human as sight of body versus soul battle for salvation
3
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Analyse quatrain 1 sonnet 146
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- Opening trochee
- Distress? Out of joint?
- ‘rebel powers’
- Internal battle for salvation
- ‘Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,
Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?’
* Setting up conflict between internal spirituality and external bodily * 'painting' - surface, artificial, no depth, not really worth much
4
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Analyse quatrain 2 of sonnet 128
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- ‘so short a lease’
- Transcience, also body as container (house), not substance, continues conceit
- ‘fading mansion’
- More futility - death makes futile, lost cause
- Mixes bodily decay and corporeality with grand imagery of mansion, ‘worms’ as ‘inheritors’ - lose fortune and squander legacy
5
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Analyse quatrain 3 sonnet 146
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- Then soul, live thou upon thy servant’s loss
And let that pine to aggravate thy store;
* Cyclical - now outward pines for benefit of inward - inversion
- Concentrate instead on the internal, sell rubbish to buy divine periods
- ‘Within be fed, without be rich no more.’
- Metaphorical cultivating and enriching of soul
- Inversion of Catholic outwardness, Protestant ‘riches’ are internal and essentially different
6
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Analyse couplet
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A bit too hopeful? Convincing? Fits theme I guess
7
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Why poem cool?
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Because really about internal world??
