English Final Flashcards
The Rover
Aphra Behn
The Dream of the Rood
Unknown
Christ’s cross
Hero and his Thanes
The General Prologue
Geoffery Chaucer
Narrator introducing cast
The Miller’s Tale
Geoffery Chaucer
Nicholas - Gets the girl but gets burned
Alison - Flirty wife (of carpenter) Loves Nicholas
Absolon - In love with Alison; gets scorned
Carpenter - Fool
Whoso list to hunt
Thomas Wyatt
She cannot be mind so you are wasting your time
Amoretti 1
Sonnet by Edmund Spenser
This book is to please her “seeke her to please alone, / Whom if ye please, I care for other none.”
Amoretti 75
Sonnet by Edmund Spenser
“One day I wrote her name upon the strand”
You shall live by fame - Art transcends time
“Our love shall live and later life renew”
Astrophil and Stella 1
Sonnet by Sir Philip Sidney
The more I study, the worse I obtain
“Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, / that the dear She might take some pleasure of my pain”
“Fool,” said my Muse to me, “look in thy heart and write”
Astrophil and Stella 2
Sonnet by Sir Philip Sidney
Denies love at first sight
“I call it praise to suffer tyranny”
Astrophil and Stella 72
Sonnet by Sir Philip Sidney
Venus - Goddess of Love
Dian - Goddess of Chastisy
“Desire, though thou my old companion art”
Astrophil and Stella 108
Sonnet by Sir Philip Sidney
Lead melts into “boiling breast” (furnace)
“That in my woes for thee thou art my joy, / And in my joys for thee my only annoy”
Sonnet 1
William Shakespeare
“From fairest creatures we desire increase”
Procreation - People will die, and you’ll make it worse by not procreating
Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
Art is long, life is short
“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee”
Sonnet 55
William Shakespeare
“Not marble nor the gilded monuments / Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme”
Art transcends time
Sonnet 73
William Shakespeare
Metaphor - Getting on in life
Aging Autumn, addresses length of day, shortening time frame
Make the most of the time we have
“This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love more strong, / To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.”
Sonnet 130
William Shakespeare
“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”
Undercutting Petrarchan conventions
The Sun Rising
John Donne
“Busy old fool, unruly sun”
Aggressive tone
Lady is readily available - Lovers are together and unashamed
Love is timeless, we are not going to pay attention to you
Why do you think you’re so important?
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne
Bidding Farewell “As virtuous men pass mildly away”
Speaker has to go on a voyage and leave the reader behind
Our love is more refined than “Dull sublunary lovers’ love”
We can handle separation because we are better than “earthly lovers”
Metaphysical conceit - Compasses
Holy Sonnet 1
John Donne
“Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?”
“Thy grace may wing me to prevent his art, / And thou like adamant draw mine iron heart.”
Holy Sonnet 10
John Donne
Paradox - “Death, thou shalt die”
Holy Sonnet 14
John Donne Commanding God "Batter my heart, three-personed God" Hammer into shape (blacksmith) Pride is the misuse of reason "Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me"
Meditation 17
John Donne
Devotion
“Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill as that he knows not it tolls for him”
If people understand the bell, something that affects each of us, we will be closer to God
Use of metaphysical conceit to demonstrate human connectedness - “No man is an island”
On My First Daughter
Ben Jonson
“Here lies, to each her parents’ ruth, / Mary, the daughter of their youth; / Yet all heaven’s gifts being heaven’s due, / It makes the father less to rue”
(Died at 6 Months)
On My First Son
Ben Jonson
“Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy”
(Died at 7 Years)
Paradise Lost Book 1
John Milton Satan and Devils lie vanquished in the fiery lake Beëlzebub complains Satan gives speech They build a meeting hall (council)
Paradise Lost Book 2
John Milton
In Hell’s council planning course of action
Satan goes on a journey - meets Sin + Death
Paradise Lost Book 4
John Milton
Paradise (Satan enters)
Paradise Lost Book 9
John Milton
THE FALL
An Essay On Criticism
Alexander Pope
Is it worse to lack skill in writing/judging poetry? (Judging)
You need to know your limits
Human Nature - Holds nature to a very high standard
“Nature” includes the ancients (Homer in particular)
Rules come from classical antiquity
Look beyond yourself
Develop Proper perspective
PRIDE
Broaden perspective
Do not condemn the whole for a part
Decorum - Language muse match subject
You’ll never find perfection, don’t be too extreme
Gulliver’s Travels (Part 1)
Jonathan Swift
Liliputians are creatures of Pride
Political acrobatics - Walking the tightrope
Satirizing political activity “leaping + creeping”
Political difference in fashion statement
Gulliver has a ridiculous concern for propriety
Court –> Ridiculous intrigue (satire)
