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1
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what is the age of discovery

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European countries explored, colonized, and conquered regions across the world

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what is a microcosm

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thought of as a miniature universe or a world in itself.

donne was obsessed with the idea especially depicting the human body as a mini universe

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what are the 7 sleepers (good morrow)

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7 sleepers are a catholic thing
children were persecuted for their faith so 7 children slept for 200 years to survuve

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what is hyperbole a sign of in donnes love poetry

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emukates petrarchan sonnet

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who was his wife

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anne moore

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what is note worthy about anne moores dad

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disaproved of their marriage

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what is cannonization said to be about

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his marriage to annew

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what is sweetest love i do not go written for

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for anne when he was leaving to travel

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what was significant about travel at this time

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incredibly dangerous

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what is a dramatic monologue

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deep feelings in direct form

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what is a common elizabtheian belief about angels

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they goverened a sphere - sphere imagery could be him calling his lover an angel

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what is alchemy

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trying to turn metal into gold - or an elixer to grant eternal life

serious scientific endeavor at this time

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what is ptolemaic astronomy

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the earth is centre of the unoverse and everything revolves around it

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what is a polysndetic list

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a list with a conjuction between each word

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what is “mark” from the flea an example of

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register of litigation - shows his background in law

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“sucked” pun

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s would be a long letter making ths s look like an f

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what did elizabetheans believe about sex

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the mingling of blood

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what was significant about the flea conciet

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desirable conciet to elizabthean poets - they were everywhere at the time a ubiquitous part of life

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whats an easy context point

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give backstory to religious imagery e.g. original sin, the cross etc

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what is the role of the vestal virgins

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keep the flame of rome alight with thier virginity

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what is violets associated with

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fidelity

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what was believed about sweat

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had preservative qualities to prevent bodies from decaying

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what is ecstacy

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a state of religous rapture following the soulds departure from the body allowing contemplation of the divine

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what did elizabetheans believe about sight

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sight was achieved by beams of light sent from eye to object

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what would concoction denote (the ecstasy)

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a substance that has been purified by heat - the observer in the poem is purified by the heat of their love

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what was common imagery to represent sex

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battle imagery

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what is interesting about donnes education

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went to oxford at 12 years old but never recieved a degree because he was catholic

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what was happening with science at the time

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a shift towards scientific endeavour and a human search for knowledge

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what could be said about donnes change of denomination

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he never really recovered in spiritual terms from his betrayal of what he must unconsciously have considered the “true religion”

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30
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what is his explicit love poetry inspired by

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his casual sex life with multiple women

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how did ovid inspire donne

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ovids collection of poems called ‘amores’ influenced donnes poems - roman immorality and sexual freedom translated to elizabethan london

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what is significant about use of death in donnes poetry

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all his songs and sonnets have some reference to death - the elizabethan era was obsessed with death

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33
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what did donne do alot in 1596

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went on several unsuccessful harrowing military expeditions

34
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what kind of poem was ‘elegy to his mistress going to bed’

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a funny satirecal poem to impress his friends - a joke

35
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what is a common metaphysical theme

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geography

36
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what did donne himself say about his desire to learn

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had “an immoderate desire of human learning”

37
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what does the quote ‘gems which you women use are like atlantas balls’ from elegy to his mistress going to bed link to

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ovids teaching of the foolishness of those attracted by bling

38
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what is the idea of penance

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washing sins away

39
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what promise did god make after the flood

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he will never flood the earth again but next time purge the world through fire

40
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what is a typical blend of themes for metaphysical poets

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religion and discovery

41
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what does psalm 69 talk about

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“My devotion to your Temple burns in me like a fire; the insults which are hurled at you fall on me. … Zeal for your house consumes me”
suffering for faith

42
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what is a very catholic idea of body and soul

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that they are completely separate

43
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what did elizabethians obsess over

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death

44
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what was average life expectancy of an elizabthean

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39.7

45
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what is christian ideas about death

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you can kill someones body but their spirit lives on and cant be killed

46
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why were catholics being purged

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spain was englands enemy and catholics were suspected of being in league with spain - would have guilt

47
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what was recently made allowed through protestantism

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divorce

48
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how did anne mooore die

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childbirth

49
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what is calvinism (christian belief)

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redemption predetermined

50
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what is a common belief about sin and birth

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people are born sinfull

51
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what is the idea of the original sin

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a sin that isnt ours that we carry (adam and eve in the garden)

52
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what is a common metaphyisical question

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does god exist

53
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what do the three fates do

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spin the thread of your life and cut it when its done

54
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when was donne ordained

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1615

55
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when did he become dean and of where

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st paul 1621

56
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when did anne die

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1617

57
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what did donne express regret over

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the adventures of his youth and how they were so openly chronicled

58
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what did elizabetheans believe about guardian angles

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everyone has a guardian angel that has no body and no sex

59
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what is the law of god in 1 corinthians 7

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good for man not to touch a woman

60
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who was mary magdaline

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a prostitute cleaned jesus’ feet with her hair - first to see him after the resurrection

61
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what needed to happen for a relic to be confirmed a relic

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a miracle confirmed by holy figure

62
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what is a relic

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a body part or belonging of a saint

63
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what did the nine articles of church of england reject

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relic worship

64
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where did jesus go when finding out about his death

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garden of gethsemane - connotations of self doubt and criticism

65
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what is a common pair of themes of petrarchan poetry

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urequited love contrasted with the beauty of nature

66
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what is true paradise often a synonym for

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garden of eden

67
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what did elizabetheans believe about spiders

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everything they ate turned to poison

68
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what is manna

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bread like food that was given to isrealites

69
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who lived in twicknam garden

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lucy, countess of bedford

70
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who was lucy countess of bedford

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donnes patroness (she was married)

71
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what is transubstantiation

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catholic belief that the bread and wine in eucharist literally turns to the body and blood of christ

72
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where did donne get his info on angels from

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thomas aquinas

73
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what did thomas aquianas teach about angels

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creatures composed of pure spirit - had to form bodies out of air to interact with the world

74
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what idea on love does he get from plato

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idea of their love existing even before they met

75
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what did elizabetheans believe about brain threads

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the brain sent threads through the body to control it (like nervous system)

76
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what did donnes theological education mean

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he knew more about judaism, islam and atheism than most

77
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what did donne say about his own religion

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he said he is christian and dares not call his religion by some newer name

78
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what did the protestant church believe at the time about predestination

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everyone was predestined to heaven or hell regardless of their actions (vs catholicism where sacraments and repentance can lead to salvation)

79
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when did the first person circumnavigate the globe

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1580

80
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how did st lucy die

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she was killed as a part of the dicleatianic persecution of christians

81
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what is st lucy associated with

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vision, light (there was a myth that she had her eyes gouged out as torture to make her confess her christianity)

82
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what poem was believed to be written in 1617

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a nocturnal upon st lucys day
(around the time donnes patroness lucy became seriously ill, the year donnes daughter lucy died, near when anne more died)

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