Reading Quiz 5 Flashcards

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What is canonization?

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Formal admission into the calender of saints/the proccess in which the church elects a saint

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What are some things about John Donne?

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“Death be not proud,” “No man is an island”
Poet and Anglican Cleric, Dean of St. Paul’s in the city of London.

Widely regarded as a pre-eminent metaphysical poet

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Who wrote the canonization?

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John Donne

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What kind of poem is The Cannonization

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Metaphysical poem

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What is the canonization about?

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Our love is a paradox, he’s talking to the parent of the girl he loves. We’ll become the patron saints of love, to rewrite the rules of love
It’s a metaphysical poem

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Who wrote only a boche?

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Robert Service

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What kind of poem is only a boche?

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Accentual verse

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What is a pastoral poem?

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A poem that idealizes rural life and the country side.

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What does pastor mean in Latin

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Shepard

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Who is Christopher Kit Marlowe

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Most likely a spy for Elizabeth
He made plays like: Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta
Openly depicts homosexual relationships
Died at 29, stabbed (potentially assasination)

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What poem did Christopher Marlowe write?

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“The passionate Shepard to his love”

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What kind of poem is “the passionate Shepard to his lover”

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It’s a pastoral poem

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Who is Walter Raleigh?

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Explorer, soldier, poet.
Often wrote while imprisoned and in competition with hos contemporaries.

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Who wrote “the nymphs reply to the Shepard”?

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Walter Raleigh

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What kind of poem is “the nymphs reply to the Shepard”, and describe it briefly

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It’s also pastoral. It’s (nearly) a line to line refusal of “the passionate Shepard to his lover”

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Who wrote “the bait”?

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John Donne

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What is “the bait” about?

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It’s a comment on both Donnes and Marlowe poems, speaking on both sides.

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What is carpe diem?

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Urging someone to make most of the present without giving thought about the future.

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Who wrote “Nymph and Shepard”?

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Donald Hall

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What is “Nymph and Shepard” about?

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It’s actually about them having sex, how everyone’s stepping around it. It uses the concept of la petit morte, which is like post nut.

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Who is Daniel Ortberg

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Transgender, wrote fairytales as horror stories. Has satirical approach to literary tradition.

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What makes a metaphysical poem?

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Highly intellectuallized, use rather strange imagery, use frequent paradox and contain extremely complicated thought.