Poetry - Love Flashcards
Whoso list to hunt - context/ summary / themes
- affair with Anne Boleyn - possessed by Henry VIII
- court poet - Tudor / Renaissance
- futile pursuit of a deer (woman) that ends in tragedy - energy lost trying to reach the woman - wasted - unrequited
- Futility / unrequited love / male possession
Whoso list to hunt - analysis in brief
Petrarchan sonnet - octave (builds anticipation) - sestet (despondency - acceptance) - volta (weakened by entrancing verb)
- repetition - alliterative phrasing - Latin (archaic diction) - hunting imagery
Sonnet 116 - context / summary / themes
- Shakespearean sonnet - part of sonnets collection (fair youth)
- endless profession of love - un-phased love.
- unconditional love - idealism - devotion - objectification - transience
Sonnet 116 - analysis in brief
- 4 lines - 3 quatrains - terminal volta
- metaphor - used to evoke sense of love - superficial
imagery relating to time
The Flea - context / summary / themes
- metaphysical - carpe diem / memento mori
- Ovid
- desire / male gaze / sexual coercion / female lack of autonomy / female empowerment?
The Flea - analysis in brief
- Arresting Language - questions / imperative
- Startling simplicity / concise language
- Conceits
- Argumentation (syllogism / false logic)
To his coy mistress - Context / summary / themes
- Cavalier poet - CW
- some carpe diem thematic links
- possession - time - futility - coercion
To his coy mistress - analysis in brief
- Thesis / antithesis / synthesis
what could be - reality - what we should do as a result - some examples of syllogism - long monologue
- conceit
The Scrutiny - context / summary / themes
- Cavalier poet - need for variety - infidelity - leaving a woman until his return
- infidelity - consumption - desire
The Scrutiny - analysis in brief
- rakish argument - comedic intent - soldier
- supercilious speaker
- trimeter = casual / playful
- regular rhyme / meter
Absent from thee - context / summary / themes
- post - interregnum / restoration - debauchery - removal of puritanical societal restrictions
- satirist / hedonist
- desire / hedonism / consumption / discontent
Absent from Thee - analysis in brief
- 4 quatrains / alternating rhyme
- romantic style adverse to content
- chiasmus / florid language
The Garden of Love - context / summary / themes
- songs of experience
- Romantics / radicalism - FR (1789)
- sacrifice of play and innocence for adulthood
- imposition of oppressive church / society
- restrictions / conventions == just daisy tbh - forced conformity
The Garden of Love - analysis in brief
- ends in polysyndeton
- tonal shift in second stanza
- biblical reference - language = pace - quickens pace
Song (Ae fond kiss) - context / summary / themes
- Scottish Bard
- sombre but appreciative acceptance of lost love - forced separation - real relationship - Agnes
- Enlightenment
- Scots diction
- separation - real genuine love - sincerity - acceptance
Song (Ae fond kiss) - analysis in brief
- forbidden love - genuine
- alliterative repetition
- onomatopoeia
- Epinome
- anaphora
- superlatives
ending refrain
She walks in beauty - Context/ summary / themes
- Romantic - Byronic characters
- cousins husbands funeral - tragedy in her loss - appreciates her beauty in mourning
‘‘broken down into component parts’’?(A05) - Male gaze / objectification / adoration / inaction - baso just Gatsby
She Walks in Beauty - analysis in brief
- sublime - idyllic opening naturalistic imagery
- beauty = perfect and balanced - pathetic fallacy - alliteration / sibilance / contrasting imagery
- caesura
- beauty = vast and unquantifiable
- Gothic unconventionality
Remember - context / summary / themes
- Pre-Raphaelite - only woman in anthology
- PR = women portrayed as art for the sake of art - idealised imagery - romanticise rather than to understand
- Rosetti subverts female societal expectations
- separation - acceptance - idealism
Remember - analysis in brief
- apophasis = deny to affirm
- convergence of denial and acceptance - elegy
- lost love - separation
Pet sonnet - octave = denial / sestet = accept
The Ruined maid / At an Inn - Context
- Victorian - plight or rural working class / women
- explored in Tess of the D’Urbervilles
- Victorian reserved nature / restrictions
The Ruined Maid - analysis / themes
- colloquial dialect / diction
- speech / dialogue - between two female speakers
- overt portrayals of change / difference between the two speakers - contrasting imagery
- appearance / demeanour
- transactional nature of relationships - plight of poor women= myrtle baso.
At an Inn - analysis / themes
- superficial judgement - removal of a façade
setting / layers of euphemism / figurative expression - homophone
rhetorical question - societal convention - façade - false pretence
La Belle Dame Sans merci - context / summary / themes
- Romantic - written during his last days suffering under tuberculosis
- kept separate from his soulmate - class
- femme fatale - despondency - eroticism - transience - consumption - D/G baso.
La Belle Dame Sans merci - analysis in brief
- sombreness / melancholy / depression
- change in narrative voice / speaker
- supernatural - sublime imagery
- parallels
- incompletion
Nom Sum Qualis - context / summary / themes
- Decadent movement - alcoholism - drug addiction etc. - Paris circles
- based upon young desire for a girl - kept away from him - died alone - poor and unloved
- desire - unrequited love - expressed through hedonistic distractive measures
Nom Sum Qualis - analysis in brief
- Iambic Hexameter - Alexandrine - 12 syllables
- archaic dictions - normally a French meter
- interjections - refrain - almost conversational
- repetition / hyperbole etc.
