Horace 30

Question 1

the insistent blows of roistering youths seldom rattle your seldom rattle your shutters your sleep is unbroken the door that moved its hinges

Answer 1

refference to the locked out lover poems; Horace tells Lydia she needn’t think men will come knocking now she too is old

Question 2

insistent blows

Answer 2

gloating tone

Question 3

seldom

Answer 3

rarely

Question 4

moved… once

Answer 4

used to do it but not now!

Question 5

so smoothly once now clings to its jamb. Now you hear less and less: “Lydia, do you sleep while I expire for you the whole night long?”

Answer 5

wont be hearing those sweet nothings very much these days

Question 6

Now you here less and less: “Lydia, do you sleep while I expire for you the whole night long?”

Answer 6

Mockery of Lydia

Question 7

lonely crone

Answer 7

negative term to her being old

Question 8

fornicators’ disdain

Answer 8

She is the one out looking for sex

Question 9

moonless nights

Answer 9

dark/ hidden/ seedy

Question 10

bacchante

Answer 10

worshipers of Bacchus

Question 11

when the scorching love and lust that more usually madden mares shall range about your liver

Answer 11

heat of passion- no self control showing that she still wants to be loved

Question 12

your shall deplore

Answer 12

hate

Question 13

that pleasant young men take greater delight in myrtle’s pale- and ivy’s dark green

Answer 13

young men want younger women

Question 14

myrtle’s

Answer 14

Venus’ plant

Question 15

ivy’s dark-green

Answer 15

want fresh young women

Question 16

madden mares

Answer 16

Comparison of Lydia to mares shows lack of control/ lustful-pejorative/ negative

Question 17

consign dead leaves to Eurus winter’s companion

Answer 17

Nature imagery used- dead leaves- dried/ shrivelled up. Winter is also when things die- she is in the winter of her life