poetry AO4 Flashcards
1
Q
Who so list to hunt
A
- Diana, goddess of hunting and virginity, was often depicted with a deer.
- Wyatt was one of the first writers of the English sonnet.
- based on a Petrarchan sonnet. the speaker is not hunting but the deer is wearing a sign as well.
- Petrarchan sonnets are about unrequited love.
- courtly love.
2
Q
Sonnet 116
A
- uses the English sonnet form with the turn or Volta in the final couplet.
3
Q
The flea
A
- metaphysical poetry - uses unexpected metaphors to link unlikely concepts such as the flea as a symbol of marriage.
- the woman has a real physical presence, sometimes in bed rather than remote and chaste like Petrarchan poetry.
4
Q
To his coy mistress
A
- Carpe Diem poetry - preoccupied with the passage of time and the unpredictability of death.
5
Q
The scrutiny
A
- Cavalier poets - distrust the over-earnest and intense.
abandon the notion of Christian chivalry. - poems were written chiefly for entertainment in court, focused on the idea of Carpe Diem and the pleasures of the moment.
6
Q
A song absent from thee
A
- more focused on sexual matters.
- considered to be quite pornographic at the time.
- today it is considered to be satirical.
7
Q
The garden of love
A
- from Blake’s collection ‘songs of innocence and experience’.
- the virtues of innocence are often portrayed through children.
- through experience many joys and freedoms are lost.
- from the experience section where the corruption of innocence is explored.
- pastoral literature - portrays agricultural life positively, free of corruption.
8
Q
Ae fond kiss
A
- sentimentalism was an important trend in Literature in the middle and later decades of the 18th century.
- sentimentalism presents feeling over thinking, passion over reason, and personal instincts of pity, tenderness and benevolence over social duties.
- it asserted that over-shown feeling was not a weakness but rather showed one to be a moral person.
9
Q
She walks in beauty
A
- subverts traditional ideas about beauty.
- female is idolised, a common trait across literature.
10
Q
La belle dame sans merci
A
- Ballads were a medieval genre revived by the Romantics.
- a form of narrative poem. Keats alters the the form by shortening the fourth line to create an abrupt and ominous ending to each quatrain.
- medieval setting - expected to be chivalric but is actually a parody of courtly romantic conventions.
- femme fatale figure
- gothic imagery
11
Q
Remember
A
- part of the pre-raphaelite brotherhood.
- strongly religious themes reflect her devotion to the High Anglican Church.
12
Q
The ruined maid
A
- a satire on the idea of a ‘fallen woman’.
- Hardy’s novels such as Tess of the D’Urbervilles was considered scandalous because he appears to sympathise with Tess who had sex outside of wed-lock.
- presents the stark reality of life for Dorset farm workers which was often romanticised in literature.
13
Q
At an inn
A
- Jude the Obscure was another novel considered to be scandalous because the characters have a sexual relationship outside of marriage.
- many of Hardy’s poems deal with themes of disappointment in love and life and the perversity of fate.
14
Q
Non som qualis
A
Decadent movement - elaborate, stylised language to discuss taboo and often unsavoury topics, such as death, depression, and deviant sexualities.
- texts were concerned with a sense of loss and dissatisfaction.
- fin de siècle - a period of degeneration but also hope. the feelings are often listless and dissatisfied caused by a lack of occupation or excitement, and a widespread belief that civilisation leads to decadence.
