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Poetry - Love Flashcards

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Whoso list to hunt - context/ summary / themes

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  • 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
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Whoso list to hunt - analysis in brief

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Petrarchan sonnet - octave (builds anticipation) - sestet (despondency - acceptance) - volta (weakened by entrancing verb)

  • repetition - alliterative phrasing - Latin (archaic diction) - hunting imagery
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Sonnet 116 - context / summary / themes

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  • Shakespearean sonnet - part of sonnets collection (fair youth)
  • endless profession of love - un-phased love.
  • unconditional love - idealism - devotion - objectification - transience
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Sonnet 116 - analysis in brief

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  • 4 lines - 3 quatrains - terminal volta
  • metaphor - used to evoke sense of love - superficial
    imagery relating to time
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The Flea - context / summary / themes

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  • metaphysical - carpe diem / memento mori
  • Ovid
  • desire / male gaze / sexual coercion / female lack of autonomy / female empowerment?
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The Flea - analysis in brief

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  • Arresting Language - questions / imperative
  • Startling simplicity / concise language
  • Conceits
  • Argumentation (syllogism / false logic)
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To his coy mistress - Context / summary / themes

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  • Cavalier poet - CW
  • some carpe diem thematic links
  • possession - time - futility - coercion
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To his coy mistress - analysis in brief

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  • Thesis / antithesis / synthesis
    what could be - reality - what we should do as a result
  • some examples of syllogism - long monologue
  • conceit
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The Scrutiny - context / summary / themes

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  • Cavalier poet - need for variety - infidelity - leaving a woman until his return
  • infidelity - consumption - desire
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The Scrutiny - analysis in brief

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  • rakish argument - comedic intent - soldier
  • supercilious speaker
  • trimeter = casual / playful
  • regular rhyme / meter
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Absent from thee - context / summary / themes

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  • post - interregnum / restoration - debauchery - removal of puritanical societal restrictions
  • satirist / hedonist
  • desire / hedonism / consumption / discontent
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Absent from Thee - analysis in brief

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  • 4 quatrains / alternating rhyme
  • romantic style adverse to content
  • chiasmus / florid language
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The Garden of Love - context / summary / themes

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  • 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
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The Garden of Love - analysis in brief

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  • ends in polysyndeton
  • tonal shift in second stanza
  • biblical reference - language = pace - quickens pace
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Song (Ae fond kiss) - context / summary / themes

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  • Scottish Bard
  • sombre but appreciative acceptance of lost love - forced separation - real relationship - Agnes
  • Enlightenment
  • Scots diction
  • separation - real genuine love - sincerity - acceptance
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Song (Ae fond kiss) - analysis in brief

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  • forbidden love - genuine
  • alliterative repetition
  • onomatopoeia
  • Epinome
  • anaphora
  • superlatives
    ending refrain
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She walks in beauty - Context/ summary / themes

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  • 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
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She Walks in Beauty - analysis in brief

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  • sublime - idyllic opening naturalistic imagery
  • beauty = perfect and balanced - pathetic fallacy - alliteration / sibilance / contrasting imagery
  • caesura
  • beauty = vast and unquantifiable
  • Gothic unconventionality
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Remember - context / summary / themes

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  • 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
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Remember - analysis in brief

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  • apophasis = deny to affirm
  • convergence of denial and acceptance - elegy
  • lost love - separation
    Pet sonnet - octave = denial / sestet = accept
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The Ruined maid / At an Inn - Context

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  • Victorian - plight or rural working class / women
  • explored in Tess of the D’Urbervilles
  • Victorian reserved nature / restrictions
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The Ruined Maid - analysis / themes

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  • 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.
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At an Inn - analysis / themes

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  • superficial judgement - removal of a façade
    setting / layers of euphemism / figurative expression
  • homophone
    rhetorical question
  • societal convention - façade - false pretence
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La Belle Dame Sans merci - context / summary / themes

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  • Romantic - written during his last days suffering under tuberculosis
  • kept separate from his soulmate - class
  • femme fatale - despondency - eroticism - transience - consumption - D/G baso.
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La Belle Dame Sans merci - analysis in brief

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  • sombreness / melancholy / depression
  • change in narrative voice / speaker
  • supernatural - sublime imagery
  • parallels
  • incompletion
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Nom Sum Qualis - context / summary / themes

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  • 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
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Nom Sum Qualis - analysis in brief

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  • Iambic Hexameter - Alexandrine - 12 syllables
  • archaic dictions - normally a French meter
  • interjections - refrain - almost conversational
  • repetition / hyperbole etc.

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