influences of poetry Flashcards
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plato
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- two souls finding each other - more sexual in focus (ARISOPHANES’ CREATION MYTH)
- diotima’s ladder - lust at bottom of rung, spiritual noble moral appreciation of beauty at top
- charioteer analogy - two horses represent two types of love, one physical desire, other noble goodness of love
- EARTHLY BEAUTY VS PERFECT BEAUTY, THE PLATONIC LOVER WORSHIPS BEAUTY OF OBJECT OF THEIR AFFECTION IN ORDER TO WORSHIP THEIR SOUL
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bible
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- song of songs - desire
- marriage is a union, one flesh
- OLD TESTAMENT - Adam and Eve and temptation
- sexual AND SPIRITUAL love
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ovid
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- pygmalion and galatea - the perfect woman
- narcissus and ECHO - self love, destruction due to passion
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courtly love and petrarch
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- troubadors - french poets who explored courtly love
- love at first sight
- SICKNESS IN LOVE WHERE LOVER SUFFERS PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY, ALSO ITS OWN REMEDY
- secrecy
- extremarial/ premarital passion, FREELY CHOSEN, OPPOSED TO ARRANGED MARRIAGE
- object of desire being an unattainable woman
- RELIGIOUS ADORATION
- character of the jealous husband
- LOVE IS PERSONIFIED, ALWAYS FEMININE
petrarch - italian poet
- known for his conzoniere:
- woman named laura - real or fiction?
- unattainable woman
- smitten with her
- never consummated OR RECIPROCATED
- caritas –> divine love
- cupiditas –> love being for one’s self, selfish
explores range of emotions
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renaissance, Elizabethan
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- renaissance means rebirth
- literature diversified to include classics and lit from the continent
- Henry howard, earl of SURREY –> love as battlefield, english/shakespearean sonnet, BLANK VERSE
- SIR THOMAS wyatt (petrarchan sonnet, LOVE IS PAINFUL AND CHALLENGING BUT REWARDING)
- Spencer’s the faerie queen –> monarchy, loyalty, VALOUR AND CHIVALRY
- shakespearean sonnet explores themes of love, infidelity, jealousy, beauty, TIME
