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metaphysical poetry
Meditation 17
Holy Sonnet 6
famous eloquent preacher, first married a 16 year old girl when he was 29, but later became dean of St. Paul's Cathedral |
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| characteristics of metaphysical poetry |
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drawing together dissimilar ideas
paradox
colloquial language (common speech)
meter is varied and irregular
irregular rhythms (reflecting mind pattern) |
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sermon
purpose of bells: wedding, funeral, alert, alarm, reminder of the time
Catholic Church, symbol of the body
Mankind, symbol of the book
Literal bell, symbol of prayer
Island, symbol of connectedness
Suffering, symbol of treasure |
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shows shift between romantic, youthful man, into a heave preacher (before he was ordained)
saying death isn't that bad because it's short and quick and you'll be without the pains of Earth (sickness, war, etc) |
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metaphysical poetry
Easter Wings
shows emblematic form - the ascetic of the poem also gives purpose |
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| a way of writing so they lines and how long they are are symbolic |
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metaphysical poetry
To His Coy Mistress
does have carpe diem, but unconventional structure
shows caesurae
subject: time and sex |
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| founder of cavalier poetry |
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time of war in England, lots of people were being sent to war to die
So these poems were about living in the present CARPE DIEM - and holding on to what you believe in because you don't know when you'll die |
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| four characteristics of cavalier poetry |
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verbal clarity
efficiency
perfection
carpe diem |
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cavalier poetryu
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Flower, sun, humans = all share morality
time is short; if you don't live now, you will spend your whole life waiting |
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cavalier poetry
To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars
explaining their love but also how he has a duty to go to war, and he really couldn't love her if he didn't have to go |
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puritan age
Paradise Lost |
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