Herrick and Marvell Notes, Sonnet 30 & 75, Whoso List to Hunt, Death be Not Proud, On His Blindness Flashcards
(Herrick) Herrick was raised by a … mother, graduated from …, became a …, and produced a … just like …. did
widowed; Cambridge University; clergyman; single volume of poems; George Herbert
(Herrick) Herrick was born into the …, and Herbert was born into the …
prosperous merchant class; aristocracy
(Herrick) Herrick was an … to his uncle, who was a London … and …
apprentice; goldsmith; jeweler
(Herrick) Herrick didn’t enter the university until he was …, which was considered a late age at the time, and left when he was …
22; 29
(Herrick) After leaving university, for the first several years, he enjoyed himself in London as a member of … of …
Ben Jonson’s circle; young friends
(Herrick) the serious part of Herrick’s life did not begin until he was
38
(Herrick) At 38, he was called a parish in …, in …, far from London, in the “…” which Londoners habitually regarded as … and …
Dean Prior; Devonshire; West Country; wretched; barbaric
(Herrick) According to some of herrick’s poems, being in Dean Prior was an …., and according to others, it was ….
intolerable exile; heaven on earth
(Herrick) Herrick’s stay in Dean Prior came to an end in 1647 with the arrival of …, which deprived him of his … and substituted in his place a clergyman of a more … stripe
Parliamentary Army; parish; puritanical
(Herrick) When the … was restored about 13 years later, so was …, and he lived on at Dean Prior until he died at the age of …
King; Herrick; 83
(Herrick) While deprived of his parish and living in London, Herrick published a fat little book containing … poems, with the title …
1399; Hesperides, or the Works Both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick
(Herrick) Less than a fourth of the poems fit in the … category, and these are mainly witty verses on … and …; all the rest of the poems are definitely “…”
divine biblical characters; events; human
(Herrick) The word Hesperides in the title is borrowed from …; it is the collective name for the … who live in a … somewhere in the …, where they watch over a … that bears … The title implies that Herrick’s book is a …. full of …
classical mythology; sisters; garden; West; tree; golden apples; garden; precious things
(Herrick) Herrick was so steeped in Latin poetry that he frequently wrote his poems as if he were an …., imposing pagan …, …, and … on the English country people and his own household
ancient Roman; customs; creeds; rituals
(Herrick) He imitated the Latin …, especially …, when he addressed poems to … with such classical names as …, …, …, …, and … But regardless of how erotic he sounds, Herrick knew only … ladies; never a breath of scandal touched his own bachelor life
poets; Catullus; beautiful women; Julia; Corinna; Perilla; Anthea; Electra; imaginary
(Marvell) Marvel was the son of a … who sent him to …
clergyman; Cambridge University
(Marvell) Poet John Milton, who was not easily …, said that Marvell was “… in the … and …”
impressed; well read; Greek; Latin classics
(Marvell) He traveled for a time on the …
continent
(Marvell) there is no record of Marvell’s having been involved in the great … of the 1640’s
upheaval
(Marvell) Marvell seems to have survived the … without belonging to either the … or the … side
Civil War; Royal; Parliamentary side
(Marvell) Around 1650, Marvell became a tutor to …, an … and a daughter of …, who had served as … of the …
Mary Fairfax; heiress; Sir Thomas Fairfax; Lord General; Parliamentary armies
(Marvell) The Fairfaxes had several large estates, one of them at a place called …, and there Marvell wrote a remarkable long poem, “…”
Nun Appleton; Upon Appleton House
(Marvell) Marvell did not … his poems and wrote only for his friends’ and his own …
publish; entertainment
(Marvell) Marvell presumably wrote his best poems at the
Fairfax household
(Marvell) Marvell became tutor to a ward of …, the … and virtual … of England in the 1650’s
Oliver Cromwell; Lord Protector; dictator
(Marvell) In 1657, he became assistant to …, who needed help in carrying out his duties as …. because he was ..
John Milton; Latin Secretary to the Council of State; blind
(Marvell) When King Charles II was restored and the Commonwealth government dissolved in 1660, Marvell somehow had enough influence with the … to …
Royalists; save Milton’s life
(Marvell) Under …, Marvell became attentive in … and served until his death as … for his native city, …
Charles II; politics; Member of Parliament; Hull
(Marvell) At this point in his career he did begin to publish … against his … and … on issues of the day. But his lyric poems remained in manuscript until after his …, when his housekeeper, who called herself … and claimed to be his …, … to a …, who brought them out
verse satires; political opponents; prose pamphlets; death; Mary Marvell; wife; sold them; publisher
(Marvell) Marvell’s posthumous volume, called …, made little impression when it appeared in 1681. Styles in poetry had changed after 1660, so that Marvell’s witty, ingenious … must have seemed old-fashioned to readers who admired the …, … poems of John Dydren and other … writers
Miscellaneous Poems; metaphors; lucid; rational; Restoration
(Marvell) To many judicious critics, his poems seem to sum up much that is admirable in … Like Jonson, he is a master .., always in control of his materials.
Renaissance lyric poetry; craftsman
(Marvell) His poems have the …, …, and … associated with the “…”
precision; urbanity; lightness of touch; sons of Ben
(Marvell) Many of Marvell’s poems are also, under their graceful surfaces, … and …, like Donne’s and Herbert’s. No wonder that Marvell is sometimes called the “…” of all the … in English
deep; thoughtful; most major; minor poets
(Whoso List to Hunt) Whoso List means
whoever desires
(Whoso List to Hunt) poem with man telling us that he’s … on his …, because he’s attempting the …
giving up; dreams; impossible
(Whoso List to Hunt) “Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,/ But as for me, alas, I may no more.”
hind: …
alas: …
Question: What happened that’s stopping him from … when he knows where …”
female deer; unfortunately; hunting; the deer is
(Whoso List to Hunt) “The vain travail hath wearied me so sore/ I am of them that farthest cometh behind.”
vain: .., …, …
travail: …
He’s not a ..
useless; pointless; worthless; hard labor; good hunter
(Whoso List to Hunt) “Yet may I, by no means, my wearied mind/ Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore,”
1st line: he is so tired he can’t …;
2nd line: … becoming obvious; he can’t stop thinking about the …, he knows … it is and what it would …
think; enjambment; deer; where; take
(Whoso List to Hunt) “Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore,/ Since in a … I seek to hold the ….”
1st line: he is … after the deer and he …;
2nd line: he is reaching for …
net; wind; running; faints; nothing
(Whoso List to Hunt) “Whoso list her hunt, I put him out of doubt,/ As well as I, may spend his time in vain.”
her: he is not talking about a …, he is talking about a …
I put him out of doubt means to …, …
1st line is the …
2nd line: just like me, you’re going to spend your time in …
deer; woman; reassure; compel; turn; vain
(Whoso List to Hunt) “And graven with diamonds in letters plain/ There is written, her fair neck round about,”
graven: …
1st line talking about very …
engraved; expensive jewelry
(Whoso List to Hunt) “Noli me tangere, for Caesar’s I am,/ And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.”
Noli me tangere means … not, because I ….
for these lines, the … is speaking
touch me; belong to Caesar; deer
(Whoso List to Hunt) though it’s impossible for everyone, i’m still the … at it
worst
(Whoso List to Hunt) Ancient Rome, Caesar had … and branded them with “….”
cattle; Noli me tangere
(Whoso List to Hunt) Wyatt’s Caesar figure: ….
Wyatt was madly in love with …
Both charges for Wyatt through which he was imprisoned was that Wyatt and Anne were …
Henry VIII; Anne Boleyn; having an affair
(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) Amoretti means
little love
(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) this sonnet is all about …: an apparent …
paradoxes; contradiction
(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) “My love is like to ice, and I to fire:/ How comes it then that this her cold so great”
ice: …, fire: …
they’re … and it’s … for them to be near each other
she is … cold
beloved; speaker; opposites; dangerous; ice
(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) “Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,/ But harder grows the more I her entreat”
entreat: try to … somebody
convince
(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) Question: How is it that I can’t …? Fire melts ice, why can’t I melt her? My fire seems to make her ice … the more I try to convince her to be with me
melt her; harder
(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) “Or how comes it that my exceeding heat/ Is not allayed by her heart-frozen cold,”
the colder she is, the … my …
higher; flames burn
(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) “But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,/ And feel my flames augmented manifold?”
augmented: change by ..
manifold: …
increasing; many times over
(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) “What more miraculous thing may be told,/ That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice,”
is there any greater miracle than this that fire should … and ice can …?
harden ice; light fires
(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) “ANd ice, which is congealed with senseless cold,/ Should kindle fire by wonderful device?”
senseless implies that it is senseless that she does not … –> when you get really cold, you lose your …
device: …
love him; senses; trick
(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) “Such is the power of love in gentle mind,/ That it can alter all the course of kind.”
This is the power of love, by it’s nature an essential …
paradox
(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) Spenser’s frequent topic: …, but broke his own format when he met the woman who became his wife and wrote about her in a series called … which starts with …, to …, …, and then to …
unrequited love; Amoretti; unrequited love; courtship; marriage; children
(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) love sonnet about paradoxes poses an initial question: How is love a …?
couples fight, it deprives you of reason, contradictory desires –> 100% … and 100% …
paradox; selfish; selfess
(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) Tom Stoppard wrote play with extended metaphor with love as …: 2 things that can lean on each other, must 1st make yourself …, than make an …–> you will be leaned on most heavily
house of cards; vulnerable; agreement
(sonnet 75) Spenser in … phase here
courtship
(sonnet 75) “One day I wrote her name upon the strand,/ But came the waves and washed it away:”
strand: …
bathos (bathetic): laughing at …
beach; someone’s pain/failure
(sonnet 75) “Again I wrote it with a second hand,/ But came the tide, and made my paines his pray.”
pray: …n
it was washed away a second time.
huge metaphor: as a writer, he’s doing something … trying to make something that will …
prey; unnatural; last
(sonnet 75) “Vaine man,” said she, “that doest in vain assay,/ A mortal thing so to immortalize,”
vaine: …
what a … thing you’re trying to do, you’re trying to immortalize a mortal thing–> my …, too, is mortal
arrogant; useless; name
(sonnet 75) “For I myself shall like to this decay,/ And eke my name be wiped out likewise.’”
we will be … someday, stop trying to make something … out of something …
doesn’t come easy to lady to accept that love
washed away; permanent; fleeting
(sonnet 75) “‘No so,’ quod I, ‘let baser things devise/ To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:”
he says she’s …, less important people, but not her, will die
wrong
(sonnet 75) “My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,/ And in the heavens write your glorious name.”
you’re wrong because I’m a very good poet, and I will write a poem about you and people will now your name for years after; believed that poems were composed in … as well as on paper–> she would die neither a … or … death
heaven; literal; spiritual
(sonnet 75) “Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,/ Our love shall live, and later life renew.”
let the world …, we will be in … forever
die; love
(Death Be Not Proud) not an … title
Donne’s sermons and poetry blended
Donne wrote the …, which sound like …., and the …, which are … poems that also sound like ….
original; holy sonnets; sermons; meditations; prose; sermons
(Death Be Not Proud) this is actually
Holy Sonnet #10
(Death Be Not Proud) Donne was a … poet: try to find ultimate reality behind … –> he used everyday things to get people to … these
metaphysical; biggest questions; understand
(Death Be Not Proud) tone: …/…., as if he’s addressing a …
this poem is addressed to …
argumentative; indignant; bully; death
(Death Be Not Proud) Q: How did the dead not …, how will Donne escape …, why does he … death?
die; death; pity
(Death Be Not Proud) “Death be not proud, though some have called thee/ Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,”
no reason for you to be
arrogant
(Death Be Not Proud) “For those whom thou think’s thou dost overthrow/ Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me;”
for those you think you killed, you …
you won’t …
poor death makes it seem as if he … death
didn’t; kill me; pities
(Death Be Not Proud) “From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,/ Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,”
sleep doesn’t … me, and death is merely a …
scare; long nap
(Death Be Not Proud) “And soonest our best men with thee do go,/ Rest of their bones, and soul’s delivery.”
our best men … a …
all you do is deliver me from my …,w hich only brings me …
deserve; nap; body; problems
(Death Be Not Proud) “Though art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,/ And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell”
calls death …, …, says he bends to the … of humans
death’s friends: …, .., and …
slave; servant; will; poison; war; sickness
(Death Be Not Proud) “And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,/ And better than thy stroke; why swellest thou then?”
you are not that powerful, I can just get …, which is more … than you will ever be
heroin; enjoyable
(Death Be Not Proud) “One short sleep past, we wake eternally,/ And death shall be no more, Death thou shalt die.”
you aren’t even …, I will wake to …, where there is no death
Death, you shall …
real; eternal life; die
(On His Blindness) Milton’s best and most famous work: … which he wrote “to explain the ways of … to …”
paradise lost; god; man
(On His Blindness) Milton uses … as source text for Paradise Lost, and he writes about …
Genesis; man’s fall
(On His Blindness) There is no clear … in Paradise Lost
Satan’s question: why would you make me, knowing I will become what I am —> God gives Satan …, as an act of …
protagonist; Hell; love
(On His Blindness) Milton was …
He would wake up early, compose lines in his …, and recite them to his daugher later, and she’d …
blind; head; write them down
