poetry renaissance context

Question 1

What genre is The Passionate Shepard To His Love?

Answer 1

Pastoral

Question 2

What was Marlowe tried for?

Answer 2

Blasphemy

Question 3

What political turmoil was going on during Marlowe’s lifetime?

Answer 3

Queen Elizabeth vs Spanish Armada

Question 4

What was Marlowe’s sexuality?

Answer 4

Openly homoerotic

Question 5

What was Marlowe’s suspected job?

Answer 5

Spy

Question 6

How was Marlowe’s behaviour categorised?

Answer 6

Violent and disruptive

Question 7

Who were the speaker and subject of Sonnet 73?

Answer 7

Ageing male poet and a fair young man

Question 8

What were concerns about Elizabeth during Shakespeare’s life?

Answer 8

She was ageing without an heir

Question 9

What does Sonnet 73 explore in relation to Queen Elizabeth?

Answer 9

The present rather than Heaven or Hell

Question 10

What type of poem is Sonnet 130?

Answer 10

Blazon

Question 11

What was funny at the time of Sonnet 130?

Answer 11

To poke fun at holes in tradition

Question 12

How old were Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway when they married?

Answer 12

18 and 26

Question 13

What was Thomas Campion classed as and why?

Answer 13

True Renaissance Man (courtier, poet, physician, musician)

Question 14

What were Campion’s poems usually set to?

Answer 14

Music

Question 15

What was Campion’s role in King James 1 court?

Answer 15

Composing masques

Question 16

Who was the image of ideal Renaissance beauty?

Answer 16

Queen Elizabeth (white skin, red lips, red hair)

Question 17

What was there male anxiety about during Campion’s life?

Answer 17

Female desires, they were considered lustful and faithless

Question 18

What did market traders yell when fruit was ready to be sold during Campion’s life?

Answer 18

Cherry Ripe

Question 19

What was Campion’s violent lexis reflective of?

Answer 19

Queen Elizabeth’s ungendering

Question 20

What does John Donne use the Flea as?

Answer 20

A conceit for sex

Question 21

What do the speaker, the mistress and the flea represent in the Flea?

Answer 21

The Holy Trinity

Question 22

What were poets competing about during Donne’s era?

Answer 22

Who could write the most elaborate/beautiful expressions

Question 23

What type of poet was John Donne and what did this mean?

Answer 23

Metaphysical - highly witty and self-conscious

Question 24

What did Donne argue was unimportant when at the time it was a source of anxiety?

Answer 24

Virginity

Question 25

Who did Donne secretly marry and what was the aftermath?

Answer 25

Ann Moor
Was imprisoned

Question 26

What was George Herbert’s job?

Answer 26

Humble, country priest

Question 27

What was Herbert born as?

Answer 27

A nobleman and a scholar

Question 28

What type of poet was Herbert?

Answer 28

Metaphysical

Question 29

How did metaphysical poets often explore their relationship with God?

Answer 29

Like love poems

Question 30

What did Herbert witness happening in Britain?

Answer 30

Moving from the golden age into unsettled era of change

Question 31

Who was Anne Bradstreet?

Answer 31

a Puritan = radical Protestant sector persecuted in England

Question 32

What was Bradstreet the first to do?

Answer 32

First woman in colonial America to write/publish a book of poems

Question 33

How did Bradstreet contrast other religious poets?

Answer 33

Described love as pure and redemptive while others say it is sinful or unholy

Question 34

How does Bradstreet contrast a typical Petrarchan?

Answer 34

Talks about marriage meaning they’re already committed
Husband doesn’t respond

Question 35

What was religious life like for Bradstreet?

Answer 35

Controlled by males
Women were exiled if they challenged

Question 36

How did Bradstreet come across in her works and why?

Answer 36

Humble to avoid being seen as an overly ambitious female writer

Question 37

What allusion does Bradstreet include?

Answer 37

Song of Solomon ~ “many waters cannot quench”