Sonnets 130 & 116, Wyatt, Howard & Spenser notes

Question 1

(Sonnet 130/154) occurs … in Sonnet series and will be about …

Answer 1

late; dark woman

Question 2

(Sonnet 130/154) all sonnets published in …., which is the … of Shakespeare’s … At this time Shakespeare’s … … and he had to return to … where … was –> He was leaving … in …

Answer 2

1609; end; career; theater; burnt down; Stratford; wife; mistress; London

Question 3

(Sonnet 130/154) “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”
this is an …
my mistress just means … in this era
he’s saying her eyes are not …, …, or filled with …, … or …

Answer 3

insult; my love; bright; shining; hope; warm; inviting

Question 4

(Sonnet 130/154) “Coral is far more red, than her lips red”
her lips are not … or ….
2 colors denoting female … at this time: … and …

Answer 4

enticing; bright; sensuality; red; white

Question 5

(Sonnet 130/154) “If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun”
dun: describing a … of …-…, used almost exclusively to describe color of … during this time

Answer 5

color; grayish-brown; horses

Question 6

(Sonnet 130/154) the first 4 lines highlight this woman’s …, albeit in a … way
problem/question: maybe that he can’t … his …

Answer 6

blackness; mean; understand; attraction

Question 7

(Sonnet 130/154) “if hairs be …, black … grow on her head”

Answer 7

wires; wires

Question 8

(Sonnet 130/154) “I have seen roses damasked, red and white,/ But no such roses see I in her cheeks”
damasked: to ….
between 1455-1487: english … –> …., fought between 2 …: … (… roses), … (… rose)
Shakes is saying: I have seen …. wearing … with …. of the ….

Answer 8

weave into fabric; civil wars; wars of the roses; ruling houses; Lancaster; red; York; white; royalty; clothes; roses; houses

Question 9

(Sonnet 130/154) “I have seen roses damasked…”

shakes is saying that there is nothing

Answer 9

royal about her

Question 10

(Sonnet 130/154) “And in some perfumes is there more delight/ Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.”
1st line: just talking about ….
2nd line: saying that her …

Answer 10

delightful perfume; breath stinks

Question 11

(Sonnet 130/154) “I love to hear her speak, yet well I know”
this is the first … that Shakes says, distinct shift in … this is the …
“That music hath a far more pleasing sound”
this is not a huge …

Answer 11

nice thing; tone; turn insult

Question 12

(Sonnet 130/154) “I grant I never saw a goddess go,/ My mistress, when she walks, treads on ground”
Shakes is saying that she is not a …
Goddesses as described in mythology … above the …

Answer 12

goddess; hover; ground

Question 13

(Sonnet 130/154) “And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,/ As any she belied with false compare”
rare: …, only … of her but also means …
Shakes is saying that his love is just as … as those … poets … about–> is this poem just about the dark woman or is it about the … as well?
belied: ….

Answer 13

scarce; 1; wonderful; rare; beautiful women; lie; rival poet; falsely grab at

Question 14

(Sonnet 116/154) somewhat … in the series, not sure who it is about (maybe …)

Answer 14

early; young man

Question 15

(Sonnet 116/154) “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”
marriage of true minds refers to …., modified by “…”
marriage not used in … sense
wed: to blend …. (… term from which we get wedding)
marriage of true minds: sharing …., ….

Answer 15

consciousness; true; conventional; 2 unlike metals; welding; inner thoughts; raw thoughts

Question 16

(Sonnet 116/154) “Admit impediments. Love is not love”
Shakes is saying that he doesn’t want to tell the partners the … that are bound to occur, but he will.
period dividing the line …: … –> … doesn’t require it, … breaking of …, we must consider the clause … of the …

Answer 16

obstacles; purposely; enjambment; grammar; purposeful; lines; independent; sentence

Question 17

(Sonnet 116/154) “Which alters when it alteration finds”

Shakes is saying love does not … when it finds …

Answer 17

change; changes

Question 18

(Sonnet 116/154) “Or bends with the remover to remove”
people in relationships who look for the … in each other:
remover is whatever is making people get ….

Answer 18

worst; out of the relationship

Question 19

(Sonnet 116/154) “O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark/ That looks on tempests and is never shaken”
ever-fixed mark: …, saying that love is something that stays in the same …
tempests:

Answer 19

permanent; spot; storm

Question 20

(Sonnet 116/154) “It is the star to every wondering bark,/ Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.”
bark: …
1st line refers to … and the star refers to the … –> …
2nd line is one about …: Shakes is saying that pilots know how to calculate their … from the … but cannot calculate the value of …. –> value of … defies …
The North star is an …–> love is sometimes our only …

Answer 20

ship; celestial navigation; North Star; Polaris; measurement; distance; star; the star; love; measurement; ever-fixed mark; direction

Question 21

(Sonnet 116/154) “Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks”
Time capitalized–>

Answer 21

personification

Question 22

Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard were … of … and imitated …, mainly ..

Answer 22

Italians; Henry VIII; poetry; Italian

Question 23

(Sonnet 116/154) good lit is

Answer 23

universal

Question 24

Wyatt traveled abroad as an … for King Henry

Answer 24

ambassador

Question 25

Henry … Wyatt twice on charges that were likely …, but Wyatt regained his …

Answer 25

imprisoned; false; favor

Question 26

Surrey was a … and a descendant of … Henry executed him when he was … years old

Answer 26

soldier; kings; 30

Question 27

Wyatt and Surrey helped change the nature of English poetry, which until then was still …. in matter, manner, subject, and form

Answer 27

medieval

Question 28

Wyatt brought the … to England from Italy and wrote some that were adaptations of ….

Answer 28

love sonnet; Italian sonnets

Question 29

Surrey also wrote … and used … for the first time in English

Answer 29

sonnets; blank verse

Question 30

blank verse: … iambic …

Answer 30

unrhymed; pentameter

Question 31

blank verse now seems the most … of all English meters

Answer 31

natural

Question 32

Surrey and Wyatt’s poems were first published in … by …. in an anthology called …., which is now called …
The book had a bad reputation though because Tottel … so that they seemed smoother

Answer 32

1557; Richard Tottel; Songs and Sonnets; Tottel’s Miscellany; changed words

Question 33

Spenser: “the ….”

Answer 33

poet’s poet

Question 34

Spenser served as the … to the … who was favored by …

Answer 34

personal secretary; earl of Leicester; Queen Elizabeth

Question 35

(Sonnet 130/154) as we go down the sonnet, we go down her … –> form is taking the form of …

Answer 35

body; her body

Question 36

In Leicester’s household, Spenser became acquainted with several poets, including …

Answer 36

Sir Philip Sidney

Question 37

Spenser dedicated his first book …. to Sidney

Answer 37

The Shepherds’ Calendar

Question 38

… is the date when the great age of Elizabethan literature began

Answer 38

1579

Question 39

english troops had invaded and conquered …, and the irish resented people like … who was given an Irish … and a vast estate in Kilcolman

Answer 39

Ireland; Spenser; castle

Question 40

… was the proprietor of an even vaster estate and when he was in Ireland, they met and discussed their works in progress: his … and Spenser’s …

Answer 40

Sir Walter Raleigh; The Ocean to Cynthia; The Faerie Queene

Question 41

Raleigh persuaded Spenser to accompany him to London in … and in the following year Books …. of …. were published

Answer 41

1589; I-III; The Fairie Queene

Question 42

The Queen, notoriously stingy, rewarded Spenser with a large pension of … annually, and Spenser was generally recognized as the …. of the day

Answer 42

50 pounds; leading poet

Question 43

Spenser published two more volumes in … and then returned to Ireland

Answer 43

1591

Question 44

Spenser’s sonnet sequence … and marriage hymn … have often been read autobiographically as records of his intense … to his wife

Answer 44

Amoretti; Epithalamion; devotion

Question 45

Books …-… of The Faerie Queene were published in 1596 along with philosophical poems called …. and another marriage song called …

Answer 45

IV-VI; Four Hymns; Prothalamion

Question 46

Spenser died in … and was buried in part of Westminster Abbey now called …

Answer 46

1599; Poet’s Corner

Question 47

These three men have long been regarded as England’s greatest nondramatic poets:

Answer 47

Chaucer; Spenser; Milton

Question 48

In its unfinished state, The Fairie Queene runs about … lines and is characteristic of

Answer 48

33,00; The Renaissance

Question 49

Spenser’s language is a hybrid of … and … English. Ben Jonson called it

Answer 49

Chaucerian; Elizabethan; no language

Question 50

(Sonnet 116/154) “Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks/ Within his bending sickle’s compass come”
both … and … used here
… are time’s fool, not … which has no … and is …
sickle: … tool to …
both sickle and compass create perfect …, as does … –> … in circles, … is never a part of the circle

Answer 50

caesura; enjambment; people; love; expiration date; eternal; farming; mow down weed; circles; time; mows; love

Question 51

(Sonnet 116/154) “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,/ But bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
… has no effect on … (1st line)
2nd line: love will see … and it it is real it will …

Answer 51

time; love; edge of doom; stay there

Question 52

(Sonnet 116/154) “If this be error and upon me proved,/ I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”
If I am wrong about this and you can …, then I have never … and no man has ever …

Answer 52

prove it; written; loved

Question 53

(Sonnet 73/154) “That time of year thou mayst in me behold/ When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang”
time of year occurring … –> he’s …, extended metaphor with calendar year as … –> spring: …, summer: … and …, autumn: …, winter: …

Answer 53

within speaker; growing old; one’s life; infancy; adolescence; early adulthood; middle age; old age

Question 54

(Sonnet 73/154) “That time of year […] hang”
looking at someone and determining their …
he’s at … going to … which is around the month of … this is all … stated
yellow leaves: …, …, …

Answer 54

season; autumn; winter; november; implicitly; hair; youthfulness; senses