Poetry methods and context Flashcards
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Who so list key methods (6)
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- Fricative alliteration - sense of panting/ exhaustion
- Metrical play (creates heavy sound)
- Extended metaphor
- Bitter tone of Petrarchan sonnet
- Assonance - despair
- semantic field of pain and despair
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Who so list CONTEXT
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- Speculated that poem is about Anne Boleyn and that Wyatt was infatuated with her
- can be read as an allegory in which the speaker represents Wyatt, the hind Anne Boleyn
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Sonnet 116 methods (5)
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- syntax- image of pairs
- Hyperbolic, idealistic and emphatic
- Strong, perfect rhymes (confident argument)
- fatalistic tone
- personifies love
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The Flea methods (3)
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- Metaphysical poetry, use of metaphysical conceit
- Regular, consistent rhyme scheme
- Persuasive/ hyperbolic language (use rhetorical question)
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The Flea Context
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Imagery of a flea was a popular romantic subject
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To His Coy Mistress (5)
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- Carpe diem + Metaphysical poet
- lexical field of death
- sense of urgency and gustatory imagery
- reminds of morality to seduce
- Blazon poetry
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To His Coy Mistress Context
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Lived through English Civil War, constant reminder of his morality
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The Scrutiny (4)
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- Dramatic monologue - self-centred
- Iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter- lively pace, casual and playful
- Assonance- impatience
- Deeply self-serving, witty argument for promiscuity
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Scrutiny context
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Cavalier poet- often playful, highly intelligent and refined, Shows off poet’s wit
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A Song (Absent from thee) (4)
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- Satirical, plays on typical conventions of love poetry
- Standard form of Restoration Song, Iambic tetrameter
- Alliteration and Assonance- slow pace and emphasis
- Melodramatic image of infidelity
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Absent form Thee context
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- Restoration poets, debauched and hedonistic era
- Wilmot- scandalous poet and libertine
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The Garden of Love methods (4)
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- Allegory- comments on society
- Biblical allusion to Garden of Eden
- Consonance binding ‘t’- negativity and foreboding
- Polysyndeton - intensifies sound, more authoritative
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William Blake context
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Romantic poet- dissatisfied artists challenging the corruption of the church
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Song (Ae fond Kiss) methods (4)
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- Anaphora
- Parallelism
- Antithesis
- Feminine rhyme- dying off, appropriate for goodbye
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Song (Ae fond kiss) context
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Sentiment poetry- to his lover Nancy who left to the West Indies
