Love Through The Ages Anthology Flashcards
Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde - quotes
‘Who so list to hount’ - the woman he is chasing is still available, extended metaphor, dominant, powerful
‘may I by no meanes my weried mynde/Drawe from the Deere’ - suggests he is still enchanted by her and is under a spell, long and drawn out, almost dreamy
‘graven with Diamondes’ - metaphor, precious, rare, lasts forever, possession-like a collar, wealth
Sonnet 116 - quotes
‘marriage of true mindes/Admit impediments’ - evokes the institution of marriage, enjambment suggests that true love should have no impediments, love is not bound to anything
‘Love’s not Time’s fool’ - time has been personified, possession, love doesn’t change or perform for anyone
‘I never writ, nor no man ever loved’ - first person pronoun-individual possession, strength of his convictions, rhyming couplet brings the sonnet together
The Flea - quotes
‘cloistered in these living walls of jet’ - black = night, darkness/evil, devotion to God
‘It sucked me first and now sucks thee’ - intertwined
‘A sin nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead’ - religious imagery, virginity
To His Coy Mistress - quotes
‘Had we but World enough, and Time’ - capitalised, placing emphasis, mortality of love
‘Desarts of vast eternity’ - bare, barren, repeated references to time
‘Times winged Chariot hurrying near’ - angels, freedom, heaven
The Scrutiny - quotes
‘A tedious twelve hours space?’ - one night stand, time references
‘spoils of meaner Beauties crowned’ - sleeping around
‘rob thee of a new embrace’ - changes everything, distance remains, women & sex for pleasure
A Song (Absent from thee) - quotes
‘To wish all Day, all Night to Mourn’ - capitalised, end of the day - endings
‘The Torments it deserves to try’ - sexual pleasure through pain, biblical, capitalised - emphasis
‘Dear from thine Arms then let me flie’ - freedom
The Garden of Love - quotes
‘saw what I had never seen’ - new perception of the same thing, Garden of Eden
‘binding with briars my joys and desires’ - ritual in opposition to nature, pleasure as evil
Song (Ae fond kiss) - quotes
‘Deep in heart-wrung tears I’ll pledge thee’ - romantic tropes, powerful emotion
‘Fortune grieves him’
‘star of hope she leaves him’ - realisation that it is not reality
She Walks in Beauty - quotes
‘mellowed to that tender light’ - gentle, mature, reality is temporal
‘serenely sweet express’ - sibilance, soft, fleeting
Remember - quotes
‘Gone far away into the silent land’ - journey, death, natural
‘darkness and corruption leave’ - negatively bleeding in, movement from romance to realism
‘if you should forget me for a while’ - accepting
The Ruined Maid - quotes
‘whence such fair garments, such prosperi-ty’ - focus on appearance, mirrors women’s expectations of the time
‘hag ridden dream’ - can’t escape stereotypes, ideas of witchcraft
At an Inn - quotes
‘Veiled smiles bespoke their thought’ - cannot hide away, sibilance - contrasts previous line
‘severing sea and land’ - romantic appeal to the forces of nature
La Belle Dame sans Merci - quotes
‘Alone and palely loitering’ - semantic field of loneliness and death
‘haggard and woe-begone’ - melancholy, cusp of seasons
‘no birds sing’ - lost harmony of nature, circular narrative
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae - quotes
‘sick of an old passion’ - lovesick, unfaithful, repeated later on
‘her bought red mouth’ - prostitution, pretending to be someone else
Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde
Despairing and vicious pursuit
Failed ‘hunt’ of a woman
Unrequited love
Sonnet 116
True love as an enduring, unbending commitment between two people
The Flea
Metaphysical seduction
Using grotesque imagery to persuade a woman to stay with him
To His Coy Mistress
Carpe diem - persuading the woman that time is short and she should partake in sexual acts as he is
The Scrutiny
Speaker is rejecting the lady he has spent the night with
Wants to be with other women - unfaithfulness
A Song (Absent from thee)
Subverts the conventions of traditional love poetry - serial unfaithfulness
The Garden of Love
Religion should have a focus on love, freedom and not rules
Song (Ae fond kiss)
The parting of two lovers
Speaker is upset about their departure
She Walks in Beauty
Speaker tries to capture a woman’s beauty as she walks by
Remember
Bidding farewell to the lover, urging them not to fall into despair
The Ruined Maid
Reunion of two former neighbours in different circumstances
Mistress vs farm woman
At an Inn
Inconsistent love
Speaker and friend are mistaken for lovers
Become lovers but cannot be together
La Belle Dame sans Merci
A knight encounters a beautiful elf woman who abandons him and leaves him void of love
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae
Musing over inability to forget his former lover
Unruly and excessive, trying to drown out Cynara
Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde - context
RENAISSANCE
Sonnet form - introduced to England by Wyatt
King was Henry VII
Diplomat for the king in France and Italy
Sonnet is a conceit which hides feelings
Sonnet 116 - context
ELIZABETHAN/RENAISSANCE
Feudal system started to erode
Shakespearean sonnet is divided into 4 parts
The Flea - context
JACOBEAN
Acts as a disguise to discuss sex
Had 12 kids and his wife died during childbirth
Donne was a Catholic man who married in secret
To His Coy Mistress - context
COMMONWEALTH/CAVALIER
Was an MP during the English civil war
Alive during the plague
Cromwell sympathiser
The Scrutiny - context
CAROLINE
Father died when he was 9
In the king’s court at 13
Royalist during the civil war
Imprisoned as a pro-loyalist
A Song (Absent from thee) - context
RESTORATION
Had an affair with a teenage actress
Wilmot’s work was censored censored in the Victorian era
Love, sex, personal, freedom
The Garden of Love - context
AUGUSTAN (ENLIGHTENMENT)
Key figure in romanticism
Altered states
Industrialisation vs altered past
Song (Ae fond kiss) - context
AUGUSTAN (ENLIGHTENMENT)
First love died from typhoid
Romantic pioneer
Sent to a slave plantation
She Walks in Beauty - context
ROMANTIC II/GOTHIC
Fought in Greece
Died of a fever
Numerous affairs with men and women
‘Mad bad and dangerous to know’
Remember - context
VICTORIAN/REALISM
Moved to more realistic literature
Volunteered working with prostitutes
The Ruined Maid & At an Inn - context
PRE-RAPHAELITES
Married twice
Influenced by romanticism
Critical of Victorian realism
La Belle Dame sans Merci - context
ROMANTIC II/GOTHIC
Trained as a doctor
Struggling poet
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae - context
Transition between romanticism and modernism
Fell in love with an 11 year old
Became an alcoholic
