Love Poetry: Summaries Flashcards
What are the Key ideas about love in Who so List to Hount?
Love is an external force. Unrequited love. Exhaustion, frustration as a result of love. Frustrated masculine lust, rules in conflict with desire, the chase, pursuit, power. Irresistible force of love, duality of love, unattainable love.
What poems do you find synecdoche in?
She Walks in Beauty - heart
The Scrutiny - hair
What is synecdoche?
Using one part of the body to represent the whole person.
What poems are seduction poems?
The Flea, To His Coy Mistress
What is the significance of the title of Nom Sun…?
References the face of queen Cynara by Horace - links to being changed through the affect of an external agent, symbolises an attachment to a former lover.
What is a lyric poem? What are some examples from the anthology?
A short musical verse that conveys powerful emotions.
She walks in beauty.
What does the Latin in Who So List to Hount translate to?
‘Touch me not’ - reference to Mary Magdalene, cultural significance, link between human beings and Jesus’ person must no longer be physical, but a bond of heart to heart.
If a poem was written in 1910 what literary movement would you expect it to reflect?
Modernist movement.
What images are dominant in At an Inn?
The fly
Warmth/Cold
Light
Distance/Pain
How many lines are there in a Sonnet?
14
Define Romanticism
Literary movement focused on the individual and beauty. Features - heightened emotion, strong natural imagery, influenced by politics of French Revolution.
Features of a ballad:
Quatrain form
Narrative poetry
Refrain/ choroid verses
Who wrote the poem which directly influenced Whoso List to Hount?
Petrarch - Sonnet 190
Which big events in the 17th Century contributed forwards the Metaphysical poets’ tendency to question social hierarchy/religion?
Exploration - Colonialism
The English Civil war
Name features of Cavalier poetry:
War, sexuality, debauchery, selfishness, male entitlement.
Which literary movement did Dowson belong to? Name the key features of this movement.
Decadents - Indulgence, amorality, provocation, ennui, French poetic form,
What is the difference between a Petrarchan sonnet and a Shakespearean sonnet?
Shakespearean sonnet send in a rhyming couplet, and Volta shifts. Quartrain form.
Petrarchan sonnet has Volta between 8/9 line. Includes Octet and Sestet.
What is a blazon?
A list of physical attributes, typical of courtly love.
What features of the Pre-Raphaelite movement can be seen in Remember?
Natural imagery, simplicity, devotion to detail, altered states of consciousness, personal messages rather than social ones.
Which techniques in Nom Sum best demonstrate the poems Decadent context?
Latin title - connection with Classical Literature, Alexandrian verse form.
Which text is the latest chronologically of the poems written for a male courtly audience?
Absent from thee
Which poems are written for a male courtly audience?
Whoso List to Hount
Absent from thee
The scrutiny
What are the features of Victorian realism?
Bleak, voices and dialects, reflecting real life, mundane imagery, double standards, typical gender roles.
Which text in the anthology is most influenced by the ideas of the French Revolution?
Garden of love - Romantic text
What is a conceit?
An extended metaphor, idea, or image.
Which poems in the anthology are thespian in their nature?
The flea, To His Coy Mistress - typical of the metaphysical context.
What is Sonnet 116 about?
Pure, confident expression of the power of love. Description of true love. Abstract poem. Rejection of the fickle mindset of the courtly lover.
What are the main techniques in Sonnet 116?
Celestial imagery - just as the galaxies are unquantifiable so too is love.
Repetition, constancy of Lang, Rhyming couplets - sense of balance and equality.
Images increase physically, grandiose scale- Reflects cumulative argument.
What does blood represent in The Flea?
Obvious metonymic symbol of life, before circulatory system was understood the soul/spirit was believed to move blood around the body, thus blood contains the spirit of its owner.
What is The flea symbolic of in Donne‘s poem?
It’s small insignificance contrasts with the taboo status of sex in society. Point made that sex shouldn’t be this. Also a tool for the humorous exploration of Ovid‘s Carpe Diem argument.
What did The Flea attempt to challenge?
Courtly Love and the idea that Love and sex are the same.
What number is repeated in the Flea?
Three - 3 stanzas, 9 lines.
Triad = number of the whole, contains beginning, middle, and end. 3 represents the speaker, the flea, and the lover.
What are the key images in To His Coy Mistress?
Natural images coupled with scientific images - Iconoclastic, metaphysical tropes.
What is the significance of the final couplet in To His Coy Mistress?
Represents an orgasmic ending, power lies within them winning an ongoing battle with time, use of plural adjectives shows speakers success, he has argued her into position.
