poetry anthology Flashcards
Whoso list to hunt context
Sir Thomas Wyatt
-speculations about an affair with Anne Boleyn
-Petrarchan sonnet
-theme of unattainable love
-deer used to represent purity through goddess Diana
Whoso list to hunt key quotes
‘Whoso list to hount’ - hunting as part of the aristocracy - linked to Diana (goddess of hunting)
‘in a net I seek to hold the wind’ - refers to something impossible, unattainable
‘graven with Diamonds in letters plain’ - marriage to King Henry VIII - diamond engraving showing material possession
‘Noli me tangere for Cesar’s I am’ - ownership of the king - vaidation of his claim on her innocence
Sonnet 116 context
-Shakespeare
-Traditional Shakespearean sonnet
-rhyming couplets and 14 lines
Sonnet 116 key quotes
‘marriage of true minds’ - ideal love is honest - truthfulness and impediments are kept separately
‘love is not love which alters when it alteration finds’ - doesn’t change when comes across difficulties - love as a constant
‘ever fixed marke’ - relating to lighthouse + nautical imagery which guides them to shore - sailors navigated by North Star
The Flea context
John Donne
-born into a Catholic family
-metaphysical poet
-use of conceits and hyperbole
The Flea key quotes
‘our two bloods mingled be’ - what people used to happen during sexual activities , loss of innocence - convincing the woman
**‘three sins killing in three’ **- extended metaphor of flea as part of the marriage - religious imagery
‘purpled thy nail in blood of innocence’ - shaming the woman after rejection - religious imagery of crucifixion and virginity offered up
To His Coy Mistress context
Carpe Diem - seize the day
mix of cavalier and metaphysical poetry
syllogistic argument - if, but , therefore
To His Coy Mistress key quotes
Medieval poetry characteristics
figurative language
the idea of the knight and the unattainable woman (courtly love)
love is chaste but passionate
courting a woman - man has to pass many obstacles to ‘gain’ woman
traditional views
Renaissance poetry characterisitics
(16-17th century)
political tensions and religious rifts between Catholics and Protestants
return to classical nature
embraced the epic
restoration of monarchy by King Charles II
What is an elegy?
poem of grief/remembrance first introduced in the Renaissance era
Metaphysical poetry characteristics
coined by Samuel Johnson
use of conciets and metaphors
love,religion and morality
Carpe Diem attitude
usually form of argument
emphasis of spoken quality
Cavalier poetry characterisitics
(15th century)
celebratory, joy in simple things
gloryfying the King and supporting Charles I classical or allegorical references
promote the crown or amuse the court
romantic, cordering erotic
examply of Richard Lovelace
Romantic poetry characteristics
(late 18th century)
Romantic literature e.g Blake,Shelley, Byron dealt with emotional sensibility
poets influenced by rebellion
expolration of unconscious mind
explores submissive, and child-like point of view
return and romanticism of nature (The Sublime)
Industrial Revolution
Pre-Raphelite poetry characteristics
sex and sensuality
art for the sake of art
ballards, lyric poetry and dramatic monologues
founded by Dante Rossetti
explored modern social problems
John Ruskin - ‘go back to nature’
