General context Flashcards
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Poems written in the Elizabethan era:
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The passionate shepherd
Sonnet 73
Sonnet 130
The flea
2
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Poems written in the Jacobean era:
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There is a garden in her face
3
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Poems written in the caroline era: Charles I
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To my dear and loving husband
To virgins to make much of time
The collar
4
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Poems written in the Georgian era:
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George I- A satirical elegy... George III- London The schoolboy composed upon Westminster bridge Ozymandias She walks in beauty England in 1819
5
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Poems written in the victorian era:
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My last duchess
God’s grandeur
Remembrance
The darling thrush
6
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Poems written in the Edwardian era:
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Leisure
To a child dancing in the wind
7
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Elizabethan/ Jacobean era:
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- Patriarchal society
- Hierarchical society
- Carpe diem poems were in vogue- “Seize the day”
- Metaphysical poems were popular
- Love poems were influenced by or reacting to Petrarchan poems
- pastoral poems were common
- Christian attitudes/ God-fearing
No sex before marriage- sinful behavior
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The romantic movement/ Georgian era (late 1700’s/ early 1800’s)
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- Nature is more powerful than man
- Happiness/ contentment comes from being in harmony with nature
- Critical of the industrial revolution
- Criticised people in authority: Kings, Go, teachers, etc
- Sympathised with the poor, underdogs in society
- Responded in an emotional rather than rational way to people, places, etc: heart overhead
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Victorian/ Edwardian era
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- People becoming more materialistic
- Excessive mourning period
- Science and technology are on the rise
- Man losing touch with nature
- Religion becoming less influential- Darwin’s theory of evolution
- Patriarchal society- women submissive and the property of their husbands
- Industrial revolution still occurring
