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Anthology Poems Flashcards

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What are cavalier poets?

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They believed death is inevitable, and therefore life should be spent enjoying every moment as time is precious.

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What are metaphysical poets?

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They often compared things in their poems, and referred to love, religion and spirituality.

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What does SPECCS stand for?

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Subject
Purpose
Emotion
Craftsmanship
Context
Summary

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What does SLIMS stand for?

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Structure
Language
Imagery
Movement
Sounds

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What is enumeration?

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It is another word for lists

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What are 2 quotes from: Who so list to hount?

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‘The vayne travaill hath weried me so sore’

‘…spend his tyme in vain’

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What are 2 quotes from: Sonnet 116

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‘Love alters not with his breefe houres and weekes’

‘It is an ever fixed marke’

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What are 2 quotes from: The Flea

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‘This flea is you and I’

‘This cannot be a sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead’

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What is one quote from: To His Coy Mistress

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‘Had we but world enough, and Time’

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What are 2 quotes from: The Scrutiny

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‘Had I not loved thee much and long’

‘A tedious 12 hours’ space?’

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What are 2 quotes from: A song (Absent from thee)

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‘Faithless to thee’

‘When wearied with a world of woe, to thy safe bossom I retire’

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What is one quote from: The Garden Of Love

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‘And ‘thou shalt not’ writ over the door’

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What are 2 quotes from: Song (Ae Fond Kiss)

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‘Ae fond kiss, and then we sever’

‘Ae farewell, Alas, forever!’

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What are 3 quotes from: She Walks in Beauty

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‘All that’s best of dark and bright’

‘One shade the more, one ray the less’

‘She walks in beauty, like the night’

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What are 2 quotes from: Remember

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‘Better by far you should forget and smile than… remember and be sad.’

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What are 2 quotes from: The Ruined Maid

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‘That’s how we dress when we’re ruined’

‘We never do work when we’re ruined’

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What are 3 quotes from: At an Inn

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‘O severing sea and land’

‘We seem not what we aching are’

‘Love lingered numb’

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What are 3 quotes from: La Belle Dane Sans Merci

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‘And there she lulled me asleep’

‘Thee hath in thrall’

‘And nothing else saw all day’

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What are 2 quotes from: Cynarae

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‘I have been faithfull to thee, Cynarae! in my fashion’ -> repeated quote

‘I was desolate and sick of an old passion’

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Who should you refer to in poetry?

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The speaker

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