Sonnet 116 Flashcards
1
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Typicality
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- loss (elegies)
- unrequited love
- Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnet form
- nature, beauty, time, tempest
- older poems- focus on social conventions- wife’s position after death of husband, religious ref
- modern poems- lack faith in being reunited
2
Q
True love presented
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What it is..
- guiding when lost
- have obstacles/ issues
- doesn’t fade with time
- unshakable
- become less attractive and stay
- doesn’t change over time
3
Q
Typicality of true love
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- powerful- strong connection
- idealistic- has religious influences (marriage vows)
- soulmates
4
Q
Interpretation of poem
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Written as a general on what love is- unconditional
5
Q
link to gatsby
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- this poem love doesnt change over time but in gatsby love does change and cannot be the same as it was- love does end.
- gatsby clock, 116 nature- constant
6
Q
‘lov’s not Times foole, though rosie lips and cheeks within his bending sickles’
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- personification of time
- love doesnt change overtime even when grow with age and dont look the same
- sickles= curved cutting tool- grim repaer, love cannot prevent death it endures till last
link to clock and gatsbys persistence to go back to past
7
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‘it is an ever fixed marke that lookes on tempests and is never shaken’
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- sf of nature
- sf of spreadfast
- fixed, unshakable
8
Q
‘it is the star to every wandring barke’
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- guding when lost
- stars represent heaven/god
- destiny/fate
- metaphors
gatsby- green light
9
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‘If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved’
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- willingness to stake repuation and knowledge as a writer
- if can be proved wrong no man has ever loved-> dont know what love is. love is eternal.
- reinforces certantity and finality
