Poetry

Question 0

Sonnet 116 - Shakespeare 1609- ever fixed mark

Answer 0

Let me not to the marriage of true admit impediments

Love is not love which alters where alteration finds

Question 1

Chaucer quotes

Answer 1

1) The carpenter wedded a new wif which that he loved more than his lif
2) that bad man sholde wedden his similitude
3) Absolon from ‘jolly’ to ‘woe begone’

Question 2

John donne - the anniversary

Answer 2

Death were no divorce

17th century- metaphysical

Question 3

John donne - the flea

Answer 3

“Our marriage bed and temple”

The flea is a symbol for pre marital sex the flea becomes “” and then the lover kills it

Question 4

Metaphysical poets

Answer 4

17th century
Sex and seduction
‘Sieze the day’ poems
Charles I, revolutionary as they had previously been deprived by Puritanism

Question 5

Elizabeth Barrett browning

Answer 5

How do I love thee let me count the ways

And if god choses I shall love the better after death

Question 6

Anne broad street - 1650- American puritan

Answer 6

My love is such that rivers cannot quench

Question 7

Phillip larkin an arundels tomb-

Answer 7

What will survive of us is love

Question 8

Elizabeth Jennings - one flesh

Answer 8

Lying apart each in a separate bed
Strangely apart yet strangely close together

Whose fire from which I came has now grown cold

Question 9

Pygmalions bride - carol ann duffy

Answer 9

At the climax I screamed my head off - all an act

- having to give in to make desires to regain control

Question 10

The crack - Vicki feaver

Answer 10

It didn’t happen over night, gradual breakdown of relationship
You didn’t tell me - accusation, lack of communication

Question 11

Song by Christina rosetti

Answer 11

Sing no sad songs for me- altruism setting her lover free- sonnet form

Question 12

Phillip larkin this be the verse

Answer 12

They fuck you up your mum and dad
They may not mean to but they do
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra just for you