Sonnets 130 & 116, Wyatt, Howard & Spenser notes Flashcards
(Sonnet 130/154) occurs … in Sonnet series and will be about …
late; dark woman
(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 …
1609; end; career; theater; burnt down; Stratford; wife; mistress; London
(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 …
insult; my love; bright; shining; hope; warm; inviting
(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 …
enticing; bright; sensuality; red; white
(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
color; grayish-brown; horses
(Sonnet 130/154) the first 4 lines highlight this woman’s …, albeit in a … way
problem/question: maybe that he can’t … his …
blackness; mean; understand; attraction
(Sonnet 130/154) “if hairs be …, black … grow on her head”
wires; wires
(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 ….
weave into fabric; civil wars; wars of the roses; ruling houses; Lancaster; red; York; white; royalty; clothes; roses; houses
(Sonnet 130/154) “I have seen roses damasked…”
shakes is saying that there is nothing
royal about her
(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 …
delightful perfume; breath stinks
(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 …
nice thing; tone; turn insult
(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 …
goddess; hover; ground
(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: ….
scarce; 1; wonderful; rare; beautiful women; lie; rival poet; falsely grab at
(Sonnet 116/154) somewhat … in the series, not sure who it is about (maybe …)
early; young man
(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 …., ….
consciousness; true; conventional; 2 unlike metals; welding; inner thoughts; raw thoughts
(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 …
obstacles; purposely; enjambment; grammar; purposeful; lines; independent; sentence
(Sonnet 116/154) “Which alters when it alteration finds”
Shakes is saying love does not … when it finds …
change; changes
(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 ….
worst; out of the relationship
(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:
permanent; spot; storm
(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 …
ship; celestial navigation; North Star; Polaris; measurement; distance; star; the star; love; measurement; ever-fixed mark; direction
(Sonnet 116/154) “Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks”
Time capitalized–>
personification
Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard were … of … and imitated …, mainly ..
Italians; Henry VIII; poetry; Italian
(Sonnet 116/154) good lit is
universal
Wyatt traveled abroad as an … for King Henry
ambassador
Henry … Wyatt twice on charges that were likely …, but Wyatt regained his …
imprisoned; false; favor
Surrey was a … and a descendant of … Henry executed him when he was … years old
soldier; kings; 30
Wyatt and Surrey helped change the nature of English poetry, which until then was still …. in matter, manner, subject, and form
medieval
Wyatt brought the … to England from Italy and wrote some that were adaptations of ….
love sonnet; Italian sonnets
Surrey also wrote … and used … for the first time in English
sonnets; blank verse
blank verse: … iambic …
unrhymed; pentameter
blank verse now seems the most … of all English meters
natural
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
1557; Richard Tottel; Songs and Sonnets; Tottel’s Miscellany; changed words
Spenser: “the ….”
poet’s poet
Spenser served as the … to the … who was favored by …
personal secretary; earl of Leicester; Queen Elizabeth
(Sonnet 130/154) as we go down the sonnet, we go down her … –> form is taking the form of …
body; her body
In Leicester’s household, Spenser became acquainted with several poets, including …
Sir Philip Sidney
Spenser dedicated his first book …. to Sidney
The Shepherds’ Calendar
… is the date when the great age of Elizabethan literature began
1579
english troops had invaded and conquered …, and the irish resented people like … who was given an Irish … and a vast estate in Kilcolman
Ireland; Spenser; castle
… 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 …
Sir Walter Raleigh; The Ocean to Cynthia; The Faerie Queene
Raleigh persuaded Spenser to accompany him to London in … and in the following year Books …. of …. were published
1589; I-III; The Fairie Queene
The Queen, notoriously stingy, rewarded Spenser with a large pension of … annually, and Spenser was generally recognized as the …. of the day
50 pounds; leading poet
Spenser published two more volumes in … and then returned to Ireland
1591
Spenser’s sonnet sequence … and marriage hymn … have often been read autobiographically as records of his intense … to his wife
Amoretti; Epithalamion; devotion
Books …-… of The Faerie Queene were published in 1596 along with philosophical poems called …. and another marriage song called …
IV-VI; Four Hymns; Prothalamion
Spenser died in … and was buried in part of Westminster Abbey now called …
1599; Poet’s Corner
These three men have long been regarded as England’s greatest nondramatic poets:
Chaucer; Spenser; Milton
In its unfinished state, The Fairie Queene runs about … lines and is characteristic of
33,00; The Renaissance
Spenser’s language is a hybrid of … and … English. Ben Jonson called it
Chaucerian; Elizabethan; no language
(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
caesura; enjambment; people; love; expiration date; eternal; farming; mow down weed; circles; time; mows; love
(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 …
time; love; edge of doom; stay there
(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 …
prove it; written; loved
(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: …
within speaker; growing old; one’s life; infancy; adolescence; early adulthood; middle age; old age
(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: …, …, …
season; autumn; winter; november; implicitly; hair; youthfulness; senses
