love through the ages poetry Flashcards
Who so list to hunt
context and presentation
context:
-first English sonnet
-adapted from Petrarch who was known for writing a series of sonnets about unrequited love
presentation of love:
-love is unattainable (like in Petrarch’s original) the female object of desire is elusive; conceit used to to preserve secrecy - Love for Boleyn was forbidden
Sonnet 116
context and presentation
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Queen Elizabeth’s reign ‘one of the most glorious’
Focus on platonic love
presentation:
capitalism of love at the time links to renaissance morality plays where abstract ideals were personified to teach moral lessons
The Flea
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Metaphysical- conceit
Plague
Presentation:
His coy Mistress
context and presentation
context:
women’s chastity was praised
double standards
metaphysical, carpe diem
Presentation:
conflict between love and time in an ironic matter
The scrutiny
context and presentation
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Cavalier poet, time for seduction lyrics, carpe diem poems, and arguing in favour of sexual freedom
Presentation:
illustrious life as a soldier, love and courtier
A song (absent from thee)
Context and presentation
context:
restoration poetry
erotic language with religious ideas
Wilmott reckless but protected King Charles II
Presentation:
Song (Ae fond kiss)
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Romantic
Nancy, affair
Presentation:
Ingenuine poem due to his past
She walks in beauty
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context:
Byron, drinking, debts, womaniser
presentation of love:
women being pure increases their worth as a commodity
Remember
context and presentation
context:
-Time of mourning, Rosetti remained unmarried as suitors didn’t fit her religious standards (Anglican)
Father was sick
presentation of love:
feminist critics praise her powerful and independent poetic voice
The ruined maid
context and presentation
context:
-Victorian era, strict on sexual relations and it not being discussed so many were factually uninformed
-Moral panic of prostitution due to it lacking female control
-censored, Hardy opposed these constraints
presentation:
-Love as restricted
-ruined maid has better life but deviated
La belle dame sans merci
context and presentation
context:
medieval life, romance of chivalry, assumed to desire marriage as leads to motherhood rather than sexual or emotional means
presentation of love:
harmful as leads to oppression of women, stereotypes, controlled double standards
Non sum qualis
context and presentation
context:
women gained more rights in 19th century, cynara- Greek word for artichoke (middle section known as heart), sexualised
presentation of love:
Rebecca
context and presentation of love
context:
1930s
marriage bar (unemployed once married)
only identity= Mrs De winter (inferior status)
gothic, imprisonment of women, death
presentation of love:
bound by naivety (narrator through love for maxim and Maxim through idea that no one would find out about his actions)
love as destructive
narrator- overwhelming
maxim- laid back
who so list to hount
poet having an affair with ann boleyn
non sum qualis
no matter the distractions of sex and partying, thoughts of lost love ruin his fun
