Types Of Poetry Flashcards
What poems in the anthology are metaphysical poems?
To his coy mistress and the flea
When was the metaphysical poetry movement?
17th Century, baroque.
Contextually, it started due to religious upheaval with the puritans and catholics, questions of state and power, the civil war
There was also lots of exploration and mapping out at this time, exoticism
Scientific discoveries, creating paradoxes and deeper questions about death and love
What is metaphysical poetry?
Metaphysics means beyond physics. It is a branch of philosophy dealing with the relationship between mind and the physical world
It tackles the transcendental and supernatural and is about questions and wider ideas such as love and death
Key concepts of metaphysical poetry?
Conflict and contrast of transcendent and transient
Allows for meditation and ideas to come naturally
Life and death, souls living on
Unnaturalness. Argumentative with strange responses to push an idea
Forever things (love) vs limited
Key characteristics of metaphysical poetry?
Metaphysical conceit e.g God is a window. Making a big thing as little and visa versa. Inventive, unusual metaphors, analogies and similes. Hyperbolic and surprising
Inventive or unusual comparisons. Paradoxes and contrasts
Often witty, obscure and learning is the main objective
Presented as an argument - either to the reader and / or the character
Colloquial (everyday) language. More understandable
Liberal on structure. Non constrained
What are the two types of sonnets?
Italien/ Petrarchan sonnet: 8 lines (octave) then 6 lines (sestet). Volta on line 9
Shakespearean sonnet: 3 quatrains then rhyming couplet
What is a lyric poem
A poem that expresses deep emotion. Explaining rather than a story happening
