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
-hunting was a purely masculine activity - suiting of the period
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
-traditionally used as a wedding vow
The Flea context
John Donne
-born into a Catholic family
-metaphysical poet
-use of conceits and hyperbole
-conceit of a flea as a extended metaphor
To His Coy Mistress context
-Carpe Diem - seize the day
-metaphysical poetry
-syllogistic argument - if, but , therefore
-poem about the passage of time and transiency of youth
The Scrutiny context
- cavalier poetry
- lovelace was imprisoned for his political moves
- affected by english civil war
- wrote to amuse king
Absent from Thee context
The Garden of Love context
Ae Fond Kiss context
She Walks in Beauty context
Remember context
The Ruined Maid context
At an Inn context
La Belle Dame sans Merci context
Non sum qualis context
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’
Victorian poetry characteristics
morality, gender, sexuality
sensory language
conflict between religion and science
influenced by Romantics
religious skepticisim
Decandent poetry characteristics
extreme pleasure and luxury
self indulgence, skepticism and excess
reduction of former beliefs
Ennui (boredom)
creativity more important than logic
Fin De Siecle
crude humour
Modernism poetry characteristics
(late 19th early 20th century)
break away from romantic/victorian
criticism of modern world
dissapearance of faith
rapid industrialisation - new thinking e.g. Karl Marx, Freud
focus on self
use of free verse to represent decay of society
use of irony
Post-modernism poetry characteristics
(late 20th century)
unreliable narrator
play on meaning, order, irony, humour
free format - fargementation and line breaks
intertextuality
Contemporary poetry characteristics
identity, social justice, equality, environmentalism
commentary on technological development
respond to current events
challanges tarditional literature and cultural norms
focuses closely on rhyme, syllables and stresses
