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Catullus Poem 3 Notes Flashcards

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1
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What type of poem is this?

A

A lament

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2
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What is the metre of the poem?

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Hendecasyllabics

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3
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Who does Catullus invoke in the opening?

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Plural goddesses of love

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4
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Who are the plural goddesses of love?

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Aphrodite Uranios amd Aphrodite Pandemos each with attendant Cupid

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5
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Which word suggests a mock solemnity? Why?

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‘Venustiorum’
Could mean ‘men of Venus’ or ‘men of charm’ but placed for emphasis at end of second line after we thought it would just be a ‘gods and men’ phrase

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6
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What is repeated on lines 3-4?

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‘Passer… meae puellae’

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7
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What is the effect of the repetition on lines 3-4?

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Fittingly incantatory dirge-like effect

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8
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Which phrases does Catullus use that are often used to describe a human lover?

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‘Deliciae’ often meant ‘mistress’, ‘dearer than eyes’, ‘honey sweet’

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9
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Which word is used for ‘mistress’ in line 7?

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Ipsa

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What does ‘ipsa’ suggest about the love?

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Filial- links to ‘not as a mob loves a girlfriend but as a father loves his sons and sons in law’

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11
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Give examples that suggest the sounds and movements of the bird

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‘Modo huc modo illuc’ repetition and chiasmus?

‘Pipiabat’ is onomatopoeic of chirping

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12
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What is the effect of ‘now’?

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Brings back to present after cheerful reminiscence of past

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13
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What other features of lines 11-12 can be seen?

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Sound effects ‘it per iter’, long adjective ‘tenebricosum’ and topos of ‘unde negant redire quemquam’

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14
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What is the effect of lines 11-12?

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Sound parodistic and is sincere expression of poet’s love which allows him to share her grief and have un-Roman sentimentality without embarrassment

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What is significant about the verb ‘it’?

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Unfortunate. Do not expect image of bird hopping down path to death

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16
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Who does the ‘you’ address?

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Orcus

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17
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Where is repetition in line 14?

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‘Male… malae’ and ‘tenebrae… tenebricosum’

18
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Which word is repeated on lines 14-15?

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‘Bella… bellum’

19
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What concludes lines 14-15?

A

Parallel verbs

20
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What created a hiatus in the middle of line 16?

A

M sounds

21
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What is finally revealed at the end?

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It is not the death of the sparrow or its suffering that causes grief but the grief of his girlfriend

22
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What diminutives are used in the last line?

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‘Turgiduli… ocelli’

23
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What sound is prominent in the last line?

A

L sounds

24
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What is the contrast at the end of the poem?

A

His sentimentality over the bird is genuine and insincere. He is moved with grief but not for the bird

25
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What is polyptoton?

A

Words that share the same stem or root

26
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What is the effect of repetition?

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Emphasis and focus

27
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What is the effect of getting the Gods and goddesses to mourn?

A

Mocks Lesbia

28
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Which word on line 8 is emphatic?

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‘Sese’ ‘to move itself’

29
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What is the effect of ‘it per iter’?

A

Hubrius representation

30
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What does Orcus represent?

A

The underworld itself

31
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What person is the poem in?

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Second

32
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Why might Catullus have chosen ‘bella’ instead of ‘pulcher’?

A

War and her love is a battle

Repeats ‘ll’ and ‘a’ sound throughout

33
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What does consonence and repetition of ‘m’ sounds show?

A

Feeling of sombreness

34
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Why does Catullus claim sparrow is his when it is not?

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Loss is his and hers

Love stolen from him

35
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What does the second ‘nunc’ do?

A

Reinforces the last one

36
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Give two diminutives

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‘Miselle’ and ‘ocelli’

37
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‘Ipsam tam’ has what technique?

A

Internal rhyme and soft sounds

38
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Which two words are split?

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‘Tam’ and ‘quam’

39
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What is a dirge?

A

Funeral song

40
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How do we feel about the bird hopping to the underworld?

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Amused

41
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What is the transferred epithet?

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How she feels about the sparrow is how he feels about her

42
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Where is there polyptoton?

A

‘Male’ ‘malae’
‘Tenebricosum’ ‘tenebrae’
‘Bella’ ‘bellum’
‘Illa’ ‘illius’

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