The Pastoral, Rest of the Sonnets, Poetic vocab Flashcards
pastoral poetry isn’t recognized by its …: no specific …, …, etc. defined by ..
form; rhyme scheme; syllables; content
fuedal pyramid destroyed by … –> … occurs and … arises in densely … regions
urbanization; Renaissance; art; populated
Pastoral poems started when 1st generation of Middle ages people moved to …, grew … and realized they …
cities; old; missed country
pastoral idealizes … as a place of … and …
rural life; grace; beauty
quickest way to identify pastoral: does it talk about … and … –> but really,, any poem in which … is the main topic
sheep; shepherds; nature
light …, simple …, simple … are present in pastoral, which is nearly … to sonnet
narratives; metaphors; form; antithetical
marlowe’s most famous work: …, ends with guy taking his …
dr. faustus; soul
(The Passionate Shepherd to His Love) speaker: …, writing to …
passionate shepherd; beloved
(The Passionate Shepherd to His Love) … poem
pastoral love
(The Passionate Shepherd to His Love) “Come live with me and be my love,/ And we will all the pleasures prove/ That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,/ Woods, or steepy mountain yields.”
He can offer her the … of the …, … of the …. Life won’t be …, but it’ll be …
beauty; valley; quiet; woods easy; beautiful
(The Passionate Shepherd to His Love) And I will take thee beds of roses/ And a thousand fragrant posies,/ A cap of flowers, and a kirtle/ Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle”
cap of flowers –> …
he wants to … her with the beauty of …, make her the … of his … world
crown; crown; nature; queen; natural
(The Passionate Shepherd to His Love) A gown made of the finest wool,/ Which from our pretty lambs we pull;/ Fair lined slippers for the cold,/ With buckles of the purest gold;”
buckles … things …
this is a …
hold; together; metaphor
(The Passionate Shepherd to His Love) “A belt of straw and ivy buds,/ WIth coral clasps and amber studs;/ And if these pleasures may thee move,/ Come live with me and be my love.”
belt composed of something …, together we are .. but the thing that will old us together, …, is …, …, and …
flimsy; weak; love; strong; precious; golden
(The Passionate Shepherd to His Love) The shepherd swains shall dance and sing/ For thy delight each May morning;/ If these delights thy mind may move,/ Then live with me and be my love.”
shepherd swains: …
they will have …
young shepherd boys; children
(The Passionate Shepherd to His Love) shepherds: …, don’t have much to offer …
herd sheep; ladies
(The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd) Sir Walter Raleigh was a
courtier
(The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd) persona poems: adopting different … but using “…”
characters; I
(The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd) assault against … in general, not just …
pastoral poetry; Marlowe
(The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd) nymph:
young woman
(The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd) Marlowe and Raleigh were …
friends
(The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd) “If all the world and love were young,/ And truth in every shepherd’s tongue,/ These pretty pleasures might me move/ To live with thee and be thy love.”
I’m not …, and I know shepherds …
naive; lie
(The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd) “Time drives the flocks from field to fold,/ When rivers rage and rocks grow cold,/ And Philomel becometh dumb;/ The rest complains of cares to come.”
The rocks will grow … and birds will … and everything you’re offering is …
Philomel: … -> sings all …
cold; stop singing; fleeting; nightingale; night long
(The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd) field and fold: shepherd terms–> during day sheep can … –> called …
at night sheep must be .. –> called ..
graze field; field; gathered; fold
(The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd) “The flowers do fade, and wanton fields/ To wayward winter reckoning yields./ A honey tongue, a heart of gall,/ Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall.”
flowers will …, fields will be …
honey tongue: a …
gall: … substance
die; empty; sweet talker; bitter
(The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd) “Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy bed of roses,/ Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies/ Soon break, soon wither, soon forgetten;/ In folly ripe, in season rotten.”
she doesn’t want the
flower crown
(The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd) “Thy belt of straw and ivy buds,/ Thy coral clasps and amber studs,/ All these in me no means can move/ TO come to thee and be thy love.;
she didn’t understand the …
belt metaphor
(The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd) “But could youth last and love still breed,/ Had joys no date nor age no need,/ Then these delights my mind might move/ TO live with thee and be thy love.’
If I would be … forever, I’d go with you, but i only have one …, and i won’ t …
young; life; waste it on you
(To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time) call to arms: reminder to … and see what you’re going to …
look around; miss
(To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time) virgins here simply means
inexperienced ones
(To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time) “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying;/ And this same flower that smiles today/ Tomorrow will be dying.”
refers to …
smiles today: refers to .., .., and … of flowers
this collectively means: in the routine, find what’s … at you and .. it, because … flies and it will …
“A man can’t enter the same room twice”
pressing flowers; vibrance; beauty; colors; smiling; gather; time; disappear
(To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time) “The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,/ The higher he’s a-getting,/ The sooner will his race be run,/ And nearer he’s to setting.”
metaphor: … is running a … against us that we will …
we … through life
sun; race; lose; rush
(To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time) “That age is best which is the first,/ When youth and blood are warmer;/ But being spent, the worse, and worst/ Times still succeed the former.”
you will have … to things when you’re .. that you won’t have when you’re …
access; younger; older
(To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time) “Then be not coy, but use your time,/ And, while ye may, go marry;/ For having lost but once your prime,/ You may forever tarry.”
coy: …, …, unwillingness to … in your own …
refers to … “…”
use your … and while you still can, be …, or else you may … it
tarry: …
cold; shyness; participate; life; passive; decisions; time; merry; regret; regret
(To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time) by
robert herrick
(To His Coy Mistress) by
andrew marvell
(To His Coy Mistress) “Had we but world enough, and time,/ This coyness, lady, were no crime”
if we did have all this … and …, coyness wouldn’t be …
coyness here means … away from … and marvell considers it to be …
world; time; criminal; shying; sex; criminal
sonnet 73, shakespeare:
boughs: …
twilight: moment right after .. and before it …
tree branch; sun sets; becomes dark
sonnet 116, shakespeare:
impediments: …
fixed: …
bark: …
wed: to blend … (welding term from which we get …)
minds: …, modified by true
obstacles; permanent; ships; 2 unlike metals; wedding; consciousness;
sonnet 130, shakespeare:
mistress: …
rare: …, …
belied: …
dun: describing a … of …-…, used almost exclusively to describe … of … at this time
damasked: to … into …
my love; scarce, wonderful; falsely brag about; color; grayish-brown; color of horses; weave; fabric;
whoso list to hunt, Wyatt whoso list: ... hind: ... alas: vain: ..., ..., ... travail: ... graven: ... noli me tangere: ... put him out of doubt: ...
whoever desires; female deer; unfortunately; useless; worthless; pointless; hard labor; engraved; touch me not; assure him
sonnet 30, spenser:
entreat: try to … somebody
augmented: change by …
mainfold: …
device: …
kind: …
convince; increasing; many times over; trick; nature
sonnet 75, spenser: strand: ... bathos (bathetic): laughing at someone's .../... pray: ... vaine: ... eke: ... devise: ... quod: ...
beach: pain/failure; prey; arrogant; also; plan; quoth/said
(The Passionate Shepherd to His Love)
“And we will sit upon the rocks,/ Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/ by shallow rivers, to whose falls/ Melodious birds sing madrigals”
we can sit on … by the … and listen tot he …
rocks; rivers; birds sing
Death be Not Proud, John Donne:
pictures: a … person can resemble a … person
poppy: …, ….
charms: .., …
sleeping; dead; opium; heroin; magic; hypnotism
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Christopher Marlowe: “
prove: …
madrigals: complicated … for several …
kirtle: …, …, …
swains: …
shepherds: …
experience; songs; voices; dress, gown, skirt; young boys; herd sheep
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd, Sir Walter Raleigh:
nymph: …
fold: the … where sheep are … in …
Philomel: the …
gall: a …
date: …
young woman; building; housed; winter; nightingale; bitter substance; end
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, Robert Herrick:
virgins: … ones
coy: …, …, …, …, unwillingness to … in your own …
tarry: …
inexperienced; cold, innaccessible, aloof, shyness, participate; life; regret
To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvell:
coyness here means … away from …
shying; sex
