Poetry A04 and 5

Question 1

What other poems about unattainable love did Wyatt write?

Answer 1

‘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.

Question 2

Which Shakespearean sonnet slates women for being inconsistent?

Answer 2

‘SOnnet 20.’
Written to ‘the fair youth.’
‘But not acquainted with shifting change as is false women’s fashion.’

Question 3

How does John Donne present love as timeless?

Answer 3

‘The sun is rising.’

‘love, all alike, no season knows nor clime.’

Question 4

What other Shakespeare works use travel and exploration?

Answer 4

‘The Tempest,’ opens with a ship caught in a storm.

‘Twelfth night,’ opens with Viola being shipwrecked due to a storm.

Question 5

What has Samual Johnson said about metaphysical poets?

Answer 5

they were proud of their ‘self-conscious cleverness’

Question 6

What is the attitude towards love in Andrew Marvell’s ‘The definition of Love?’

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

What is Epicurean philosophy?

Answer 7

Pleasure is the greatest good.

It was furthered my the school of Hedonism.

Question 8

How were puritans viewed in restoration literature?

Answer 8

They were lampooned?

Question 9

How does Donne begin ‘The Canonisation?’

Answer 9

‘For god’s sake hold your tongue and let me love.’

Question 10

What is one of the most poignant restoration works that challenges relgion and society?

Answer 10

‘Paradise Lost’ by John Milton.

Question 11

What did Rochester’s contemporaries say of him?

Answer 11

Pepys described him as an ‘so idle a rogue’

Andrew Larman:; ‘the wickedest man in England.’

Question 12

Who were the ‘Merry gang?’

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What did Wilmot say of his sex life?

Answer 13

He called it ‘natural appetite’

Question 14

How did Rochester slam the king a few years prior to his final banishment from court?

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

Who are some famous cavalier poets?

Answer 15

Richard Lovelace
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Thomas Carew
Robert Herrick

Question 16

In his poem, ‘My Dear Mistress has a Heart,’ what does Wilmot say of his muse?

Answer 16

'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'

Question 17

What does Blake say in his poem ‘Visions?’

Answer 17

‘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?’

Question 18

What is Blake’s partner poem to the Garden?

Answer 18

‘The echoing Green’

Question 19

What did ‘The Champion’ say of Keats in 1818?

Answer 19

‘When he writes of passion it seems to have possessed him.’

Question 20

In Who so list what is it called when the speaker battle with what he should do and what he wants?

Answer 20

Freud- Power of desire

Question 21

what aspect of the Bible does the Garden of Love echo?

Answer 21

The Song of Solomon: cherishes sexuality, the female speaker invites the male to the garden to try her fruits, metaphor for sexual love

Question 22

what aspects are there to Ballads?

Answer 22

• Implement language
• Stories
• Ballad stanzas (ABAB of ABCB
• Repetition
• Dialogue

Question 23

How does Hardy criticise the Victorian attitudes in Tess of the D’Urbevilles?

Answer 23

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.

Question 24

In Hardy’s novel ‘Far from the Madding crowd,’ What does Bathsheba say about society?

Answer 24

‘It is difficult for a woman to her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.’

Question 25

What did Wilde say of Dowson?

Answer 25

he is ‘a symbol of tragedy- all that love is.’

‘For he knew what love was.’

Question 26

what is one of the key quotes from the decadence movement?

Answer 26

‘Art for Art’s sake.’

Question 27

What is ‘The new Woman?’

Answer 27

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

Question 28

What were the two key figures of the Decadence movement?

Answer 28

The dandy and the new woman

Question 29

What did Byron himself say of love?

Answer 29

‘I cannot exist without some object of love.’

Question 30

What did Byron call Keats’ poetry?

Answer 30

‘A sort of mental masturbation.’

Question 31

Which poems use moonlight to frame a romantic setting?

Answer 31

‘So we’ll go no more a roving,’ and ‘She walks in Beauty,’ By Lord Byron.

Question 32

What drama is chastity mocked in?

Answer 32

James Shirley’s 1632 ‘Hyde Park,’ the waiting-woman’s chastity is mocked and dubbed useless in court.

Question 33

What is a rose a symbol of?

Answer 33

Aphrodite, Goddess of Love

Question 34

What does Duke Orsino say in the opening of Twelfth night?

Answer 34

‘If music be the food of love, play on’

Dowson’s poem begs for ‘madder music.’