PY - R - W2 - Elegies

Question 1

0Ooften

Answer 1

Graduated Capitals

Question 2

lemman

Answer 2

Lover, Sweetheart

Question 3

'’Most’’ + ‘‘lost’’= (What style)

Answer 3

Eye rhyme

Question 4

Your maiden head

Answer 4

Virginity

Question 5

Pillar of lights

Answer 5

guides

Question 6

September Song (auth + date)

Answer 6

• Geoffrey Hill
• 1968

Question 7

Geoffrey Hill (poem)

Answer 7

September Song (1968)

Question 8

punctus elevatus

Answer 8

are(dth)’‘Swa

Question 9

are(dth)’‘Swa

Answer 9

punctus elevatus

Question 10

Poems of

• mourning
• lament
• epitaph (grave-stone)

Answer 10

Elegies

Question 11

poems of commemoration & meditation

Answer 11

Elegies

Question 12

Where are they (theme) + e.g.

Answer 12

Ubi Sunt
e.g. Wanderer

Question 13

Implicit reference to another poem or story, or to a person or event.

Answer 13

Allusion

Question 14

Allusion

Answer 14

• Association (type of)
• Literal form of symbolic reference

Lat. ad + ludere, ‘to play beside’

Question 15

I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be.

Answer 15

Allusion

Question 16

KENNING

Answer 16

Old Norse kenna, to know, to perceive

• compound term which pairs a base-word with a referent by way of defining something by what it is not.
• hildenædran, or ‘battle-snakes’, for arrows and beadleomu, or ‘battle flame’, for a sword which flashes in a fight.

Question 17

hildenædran, or ‘battle-snakes’, for arrows and beadleomu, or ‘battle flame’,
for a sword which flashes in a fight. (symbolic)

Answer 17

Kennings

Question 18

Riddles in miniatures

Answer 18

Kenning

(what is binding of water?)

Question 19

Maxim

Answer 19

Gk. axiOma ‘what is thought fitting’

• hort, pithy statement expressing a general truth or rule of conduct.
• frequently in the Iliad
• mental guardians of good conduct

Question 20

Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good (symbol)

Answer 20

MAXIM