The Scrutiny Flashcards
Who wrote this poem
Richard Lovelace
What style attitude does the prom present about love
Carpe diem
What type of poem is Lovelace and explain
• Cavalier poet
• Wrote for King Charles I
• poetry is filled of wit, obsession with love and beauty, support of monarch over parliament
What is the rhyme scheme of the poem
ABABB
What metre is the poem written in
Iambic tetrameter and trimeter
What words reflect the title of the poem
Interrogation, mocking, ironic, dismissive and relatable
Give significance to the poem being written in dramatic monologue, regular form
Reflects cavaliers rebellious attitudes as they opposed the dominant puritanical spirit of the time
What device is used in the following sentences and what is its significance
‘I vowed’, ‘I am forsworn’, ‘I swore to thee’
- Personal pronouns
- Selfishness of his desires is reflected in the abundance of personal pronouns
How is duality reflected in his respectful use of lady and disrespectful treatment
- Mockingly and ironic because her virtue would have been compromised by their sexual engagement
What does the lack of commitment in the speaker make him?
A cavalier because it has synonyms of disdainful and supercilious
What is the function of apostrophe and rhetorical question in this poem and ‘his coy mistress’
- In this poem, it does not allow the absentee woman to respond
- In his coy mistress, the speaker uses it to persuade the absentee woman to sleep with him
What is the function of ‘lady’ and ‘already’ in line 3
- Both are whiny assonance
- ‘Lady’ highlights their distant relationship
- Suggests his impatience with her complaint and establishes the dismissive tone in which he will treat her
What is the significance of the rhyme scheme
- Insinuates regularity and control, mirrors the control the speaker has over the lady he addresses due to the imbalance of affection
- The rhyming couplet at the end sounds trite and hackneyed reflecting the speakers incinserity.
What is the function of the used in this poem
- Maintains playful, bouncy and song-like tone
- Short pace gives the poem a comical tone and mirrors the poems carpe diem philosophy
Which other poem employs iambic tetrameter
to his coy mistress
What lines switch from tetrameter to trimeter and what does this signify
- The first two lines
- Matches the speakers unworthiness
What figure of speech is used in the following sentence and why?
“ Like skilful mineralists that sound/ For treasure in unploughed-up ground”
• Simile
• Compares himself to geologist looking up for valuable minerals
• Prestige of geologists occupation conflicts the sordidness of the speakers plans
• “Unploughed-up grounds” reflects misogyny and patriarchal views. Also shows he has lost his respect for her since she is no longer a virgin
• Similar to WHOSO LIST TO HUNT which uses extended metaphor. Both speakers are engaging with women as a competitive pursuit
What stanza contains lots of plosives and what is the effect
• Forceful insistence
• Creates the idea of passion
• Now that he’s hit a good argument, he’s enjoying himself and is content to stay to explain it
What themes are found in this poem
• Infidelity
• Lust and sexual desire
• Virginity and Purity
• Faithfulness
What quotations in this poem is mirrored in the great Gatsby
“Sound for treasure”
“Gleaming like silver” Chapter 8
“Like skilful mineralists”
“Lived like a young rajah, collecting jewels, chiefly rubies” Chapter 4
What are the similarities and differences between this poem and A song (Absent from thee)
Similarities
• Convince women that infidelity will serve them
• use apostrophe- a silent women is addressed
• Unable to contain their desires
Differences
• In absent from thee, the speaker is more self-deprecating whereas the speaker in this poem puts down the woman he addresses
• In absent from thee, the speaker is speaking to a woman he is very familiar with
• Wilmots poem is heavy and remorseful, Lovelace poem is light and comedic
• Satirist vs cavalier
What are the differences and similarities between this poem and remember
Similarities
• Both speakers address silent other
• Structured rhyming couplets maintain control
Differences
• Rosetti’s speaker is selfless whereas Lovelace speaker is selfish
• Rosetti’s poem does not focus on sexual tension but tender reflection on their relationship
