The Scrutiny

Question 1

Who wrote this poem

Answer 1

Richard Lovelace

Question 2

What style attitude does the prom present about love

Answer 2

Carpe diem

Question 3

What type of poem is Lovelace and explain

Answer 3

• Cavalier poet
• Wrote for King Charles I
• poetry is filled of wit, obsession with love and beauty, support of monarch over parliament

Question 4

What is the rhyme scheme of the poem

Answer 4

ABABB

Question 5

What metre is the poem written in

Answer 5

Iambic tetrameter and trimeter

Question 6

What words reflect the title of the poem

Answer 6

Interrogation, mocking, ironic, dismissive and relatable

Question 7

Give significance to the poem being written in dramatic monologue, regular form

Answer 7

Reflects cavaliers rebellious attitudes as they opposed the dominant puritanical spirit of the time

Question 8

What device is used in the following sentences and what is its significance
‘I vowed’, ‘I am forsworn’, ‘I swore to thee’

Answer 8

• Personal pronouns
• Selfishness of his desires is reflected in the abundance of personal pronouns

Question 9

How is duality reflected in his respectful use of lady and disrespectful treatment

Answer 9

• Mockingly and ironic because her virtue would have been compromised by their sexual engagement

Question 10

What does the lack of commitment in the speaker make him?

Answer 10

A cavalier because it has synonyms of disdainful and supercilious

Question 11

What is the function of apostrophe and rhetorical question in this poem and ‘his coy mistress’

Answer 11

• 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

Question 12

What is the function of ‘lady’ and ‘already’ in line 3

Answer 12

• 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

Question 13

What is the significance of the rhyme scheme

Answer 13

• 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.

Question 14

What is the function of the used in this poem

Answer 14

• Maintains playful, bouncy and song-like tone
• Short pace gives the poem a comical tone and mirrors the poems carpe diem philosophy

Question 15

Which other poem employs iambic tetrameter

Answer 15

to his coy mistress

Question 16

What lines switch from tetrameter to trimeter and what does this signify

Answer 16

• The first two lines
• Matches the speakers unworthiness

Question 17

What figure of speech is used in the following sentence and why?
“ Like skilful mineralists that sound/ For treasure in unploughed-up ground”

Answer 17

• 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

Question 18

What stanza contains lots of plosives and what is the effect

Answer 18

• 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

Question 19

What themes are found in this poem

Answer 19

• Infidelity
• Lust and sexual desire
• Virginity and Purity
• Faithfulness

Question 20

What quotations in this poem is mirrored in the great Gatsby

Answer 20

“Sound for treasure”
“Gleaming like silver” Chapter 8

“Like skilful mineralists”
“Lived like a young rajah, collecting jewels, chiefly rubies” Chapter 4

Question 21

What are the similarities and differences between this poem and A song (Absent from thee)

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What are the differences and similarities between this poem and remember

Answer 22

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