Poetry

Question 0

To Althea, from prison

Richard Lovelace

Answer 0

If I have freedom in my love
And in my soul am free
Angels alone that soar above
Enjoy such liberty

Question 1

The rape of the lock- pope

Answer 1

Trophies of his former loves
Swells her breast with conquests yet to come
Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast when husbands or when lap dogs breathe their last

Question 2

Millers Tales 1386

Answer 2

‘yonge wyf to rage and pleye’

Question 3

Petrach 1304

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'heartened those in whom all hope had died'
'burn for you'
her smile' shot the dart'
'I left you'
'scattered on the wind'

Question 4

The clod and the pebble - Blake ROMANTICISM

Answer 4

Love seeketh not itself to please
Builds a heaven in hells despair
So sung the little clod of clay
Trodden with the castles feet

But a pebble of the brook warbled
Love seeketh only self to please
To bind another to its delight
Builds a hell in heavens despite

Question 5

Amoretti

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‘cunning’ ‘net of gold’

men = ‘frail eyes’

Question 6

When we two parted - lord Byron

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The dew of the morning
Sunk chill on my brow
It felt like a warnings of
What I feel now.

They know not that I knew thee

Question 7

The passionate shepherd - Marlowe

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‘I will make thee a bed of roses’

‘The shepherds swans shall dance and sing for your delight each morning’

Question 8

The Nymph’s reply to the Shephard - Raleigh

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‘If all the world and love were young?And truth in every shepherds’ tounge’
‘flowers do fade
‘Had joys no date nor age no need’

Question 9

Donne 1572-1631 THE FLEA

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‘This flea is you and i and tbus
Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is’

‘In this flea our two bloods mingled be
Thou know’st this cannot be said
A sin or crime or loss of maidenhead.’

‘purpled they nail in blood of innocence’

Question 10

The Flea - structure

Answer 10

Rhyme - couplets, childish, patronise. make argument flow.

Question 11

Donne - Valediction forbidden mourning

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‘Twere the profanation of our joys
To tell the laity of our love’

Love so much refined, that ourselves know not what it is’

‘Dull, sublunary lovers love, whose soul is sense’

Question 12

Valediction - techniques

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Rhyme - ACBD inevitable, together even when separated.

internal rhyme - ‘Wilt thou be to me who must’ have to be together.

Question 13

The scrutiny 1618-1657

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‘fond impossibility’ ‘tedious twelve hours space’
‘ I must search the black and the fair,
Like skilful mineralists that sound
For pleasure in unploughed up ground’

Question 14

Marvel - To his coy mistress

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‘An age to every part
And the last age should show your heart’

‘Times winged chariot hurrying near’

Deserts of vast eternity’
‘Then worms shall try
That long preserved virginity’

‘Quaint honour turned to dust
And into ashes all my lust’

‘every pore with instant fires’

‘our time devour’

Question 15

To his coy mistress structure

Answer 15

Rhyme, especially across stanzas make time appear to be hurrying.
inconsistent stanza size, no time to be net or ordered.

Question 16

Marvell - the definition of love

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‘fate does iron wedges drive’

‘Love’s whole world on us doth wheel’

‘so truly parallel, though infinite, can never meet.’

‘conjunction of the mind
And in opposition to the stars’

Magnanimous despair alone
Could show me so divine a thing’

Question 17

The definition of Love- structure and form

Answer 17

ACBD rhyme scheme reinforces divide
Personfication of love and fate- supernatural
Religious- love is other wordly
Patterned stanza - unity even if barred, reinforce last line.

Question 18

Wild Oats, Larkin, 1964

Answer 18

‘In seven years after that
Wrote over four hundred letters’

‘A bosomy English rose
And her friend in specs i could talk to’

‘parting, after about five rehearsals’

’ i was too selfish, withdrawn, easily bored to love’

colloquial lang - non idealistic. No rhyme.

Question 19

The voice - hardy VICTORIAN

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Woman how much missed, how you call to me, call to me
‘Air blue gown’

You being ever dissolved to wan witlessness

Thus I faltering forward
Leaves around me falling
Wind oozing thin through the thorn from norward
And the woman calling

Question 20

Remember - Christina Rossetti - 1862

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Better by far you should forget and smile
Than remember and be sad

When you can no more hold me by the hand
Or I half turn to go yet turning stay

Question 21

Annual Mirabilis - Larkin

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Up to then there'd only been 
A sort of bargaining
A wrangle for the ring
A shame that started at sixteen
And spread to everything

Life became
A brilliant breaking of the bank
A quite unlovable game

Question 22

Warming her pearls - Carol Anne Duffy

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My slow heat entering each pearl. Slack on my neck. Her rope.

Question 23

Tales from Ovid: Echo and Narcissus

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She followed him like a starving wolf

But love was fixed in her body
Like barbed arrow. There it festered

Her bones they say, turned
into stone, sinking
Her voice roamed off by itself
Unseen in the forest unseen

Snatch their last words

Question 24

Kipling 1915

Answer 24

If any question why we died

Tell them because our fathers died

Question 25

Richard Lovelace - to Lucasta. going to the warres

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I could not love thee dear so much

love’d I not honour more

Question 26

Petrach 1300s

Answer 26

Sonnets
Inspired by Platonic Love
Courtly love - originating from troubadour poetry- idealising physical passion
Petrarchan conceit- pain and pleasure juxtapose ‘sick health’ Romeo

Question 27

Chaucer 1343-1400

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One of the first works written in English

Reflect social upheaval of the period and change- Black Death and rise of the merchants

Question 28

Donne 1512-1631

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Metaphysical poet-
Conceits to subvert expectations to make a point - ingenuity more than justness. Inspired by Petrarchan metaphor
Appreciate wit

Question 29

Lovelace 1617-1657

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Cavalier poet - Carpe Diem, sensual love, platonic love.
very devoted to the King
Social, religious and political turmoil as civil war

Question 30

Pope 1688-1744

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Controversial satires, made mundane grandiose as reaction against consumerism of society, satirise high society
Rejection of deism and political leaders weakened
Augustan period- imitate roman classics. Augustus gave stability after ceasar, attempt to do the same for art after puritans

Question 31

Blake 1757-1827

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Context: loss of enlightenment after French Revolution

Romanticism- imagination more important than reality
Yearn for idealised simple past
Loosening of the rules
Pastoral poetry

Question 32

Rossetti 1830-1894

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Victorian- strict moral codes, especially for mourning

Poetry growing less detached

Question 33

Thomas Hardy - 1840-1928

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Rise of modernism
Fatalist- juxtapose downtrodden man with beauty of nature
1912- estranged wife dies

Question 34

Philip Larkin 1922-85

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Context- breakdown of culture and class
- swinging sixties
Poetry- reaction against dreaminess of Victorian era
Imagists- boil lang down to its essence
Annus Mirabilus ‘year if miracles’ 1974
Mimetic of Beat Generation of 1950s, criticise capitalism, discuss taboos, jazz critic

Question 35

Carol Anne Duffy 1987

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Roman Catholic family
In a relationship with Jackie Kay
1987 - Aids crisis 1 die every day.

Question 36

Ted Hughes

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Married to Sylvia Plath
Tales from Ovid 1997
Animals as savage and beautiful key theme across his work.

Question 37

Spenser

Answer 37

Inspired by Petrach