Poetry A04 and 5 Flashcards
What other poems about unattainable love did Wyatt write?
‘And wilt thou Leave me Thus,’ the speaker begs a woman to stay with him- ‘say nay, say nay.’
‘They flee from me,’ - male speaker reflecting on how women use him for sexual gratification.
Which Shakespearean sonnet slates women for being inconsistent?
‘SOnnet 20.’
Written to ‘the fair youth.’
‘But not acquainted with shifting change as is false women’s fashion.’
How does John Donne present love as timeless?
‘The sun is rising.’
‘love, all alike, no season knows nor clime.’
What other Shakespeare works use travel and exploration?
‘The Tempest,’ opens with a ship caught in a storm.
‘Twelfth night,’ opens with Viola being shipwrecked due to a storm.
What has Samual Johnson said about metaphysical poets?
they were proud of their ‘self-conscious cleverness’
What is the attitude towards love in Andrew Marvell’s ‘The definition of Love?’
Love is an unfulfilled longing.
The idea that fate keeps two true lovers apart, he uses the conceit of ‘distant poles,’ to reflect how the lovers can never be physically satisfied.
What is Epicurean philosophy?
Pleasure is the greatest good.
It was furthered my the school of Hedonism.
How were puritans viewed in restoration literature?
They were lampooned?
How does Donne begin ‘The Canonisation?’
‘For god’s sake hold your tongue and let me love.’
What is one of the most poignant restoration works that challenges relgion and society?
‘Paradise Lost’ by John Milton.
What did Rochester’s contemporaries say of him?
Pepys described him as an ‘so idle a rogue’
Andrew Larman:; ‘the wickedest man in England.’
Who were the ‘Merry gang?’
A group of men in Chalres’ court who were notorious for their escapades, including lewd pantomimes of buggery, genital exposure and violence. They were only saved from arrest due to royal intervention.
John Wilmot was the leader of this gang
What did Wilmot say of his sex life?
He called it ‘natural appetite’
How did Rochester slam the king a few years prior to his final banishment from court?
He mocked the king, producing ‘A satire on Charles II.’
In it he said of Charles, ‘The easiest King and best-bred man in alive,’ was someone who was occupied with ‘starving his people,’ and ‘hazarding the crown,’ in pursuit of his carnal desires.
Who are some famous cavalier poets?
Richard Lovelace
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Thomas Carew
Robert Herrick
In his poem, ‘My Dear Mistress has a Heart,’ what does Wilmot say of his muse?
'My dear mistress has a heart soft as those kind looks she gave me, When with love's resistless art, And her eyes, she did enslave me; But her constancy's so weak, She's so wild and apt to wonder, That my jealous heart should break should we live one day asunder'
What does Blake say in his poem ‘Visions?’
‘Till she who burns with youth, and knows no fixed lot, is bound in spells of law to one she loathes? And must she drag the chain of life in weary lust?’
What is Blake’s partner poem to the Garden?
‘The echoing Green’
What did ‘The Champion’ say of Keats in 1818?
‘When he writes of passion it seems to have possessed him.’
In Who so list what is it called when the speaker battle with what he should do and what he wants?
Freud- Power of desire
what aspect of the Bible does the Garden of Love echo?
The Song of Solomon: cherishes sexuality, the female speaker invites the male to the garden to try her fruits, metaphor for sexual love
what aspects are there to Ballads?
- Implement language
- Stories
- Ballad stanzas (ABAB of ABCB
- Repetition
- Dialogue
How does Hardy criticise the Victorian attitudes in Tess of the D’Urbevilles?
Tess is seduced/raped, though Hardy makes it unclear which, and faces life in a state deemed by society to be ruined. It is controversial as he subtitled it ‘a pure woman faithfully presented.’
By calling her ‘Pure,’ a pregnant, unmarried woman, Hardy calls into question, society’s definition of the word.
In Hardy’s novel ‘Far from the Madding crowd,’ What does Bathsheba say about society?
‘It is difficult for a woman to her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.’
What did Wilde say of Dowson?
he is ‘a symbol of tragedy- all that love is.’
‘For he knew what love was.’
what is one of the key quotes from the decadence movement?
‘Art for Art’s sake.’
What is ‘The new Woman?’
Decadence idea,, threatening old traditional values, women were given more freedom, educated and uninterested in children and marriage.
Sexual freedom increased during this era, and sexual desire become more common in books, such as Jude the Obscure.
Its Hayday was in the 1890s
What were the two key figures of the Decadence movement?
The dandy and the new woman
What did Byron himself say of love?
‘I cannot exist without some object of love.’
What did Byron call Keats’ poetry?
‘A sort of mental masturbation.’
Which poems use moonlight to frame a romantic setting?
‘So we’ll go no more a roving,’ and ‘She walks in Beauty,’ By Lord Byron.
What drama is chastity mocked in?
James Shirley’s 1632 ‘Hyde Park,’ the waiting-woman’s chastity is mocked and dubbed useless in court.
What is a rose a symbol of?
Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
What does Duke Orsino say in the opening of Twelfth night?
‘If music be the food of love, play on’
Dowson’s poem begs for ‘madder music.’
