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| What kind of people invented the sonnet? |
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| Sonnets are courtly, romantic love with what characteristics? |
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-lady is worshippped from afar
-speaker afraid of her anger, rivals for her love
-forbidden relationship
-lover seeks lady's "pity" - sleep w/ her |
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| Who was the most famous Italian poet? |
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| Who did Petrarch write sonnets about? |
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| After Laura dies, who does Petrarch focus on? |
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| extended metaphor that rules whole sonnet |
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| Who introduced the sonnet to England and how? |
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| Thomas Wyatt, translated Petarch's sonnets |
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| What did the sonnet form test? |
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| All sonnets have what form? |
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| 14 lines w/ iambic pentameter |
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| What is the form of the Petrarchan (Italian) sonnet? |
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| 8 lines (octet) / 6 lines (seset) |
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| What is the form of the Shakesperean (English) sonnet? |
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| 3 quatrains followed by rhyming couplet |
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| a catalogu,list of lady's virtues |
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| What did poets need for $/publishing poems? |
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| What were Edmund Spenser's romantic sonnets called? |
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| Who did Edmund Spenser write his sonnets about? |
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| What poem did Edmund Spenser write about marriage? |
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| What is an eternizing conceit? |
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| In Donne's "Song", why ISN'T the speaker leaving? |
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| tired of woman or finding new lover |
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| Why IS man in "Song" leave? |
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| fake death since one day they will be parted |
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| Song: what does he compare himself to and how is he better than this thing? |
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| sun; more motivation, reliable to come back for her |
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| What is "feeble man's power" in Song? |
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| men dwell on bad and can't prolong the good times |
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| Song: what does the woman do that hurts speaker's soul and kills him (not literally)? |
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| she is kind for being sympathetic and upset but unkind because her crying is hurting him |
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| Song: what does woman crying do to man's life? |
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| Song: what does speaker tell woman not to think of? |
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| sickness or bad for him or else that destiny could come true |
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| Song: what does speaker tell her to imagine? |
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| that they are sleeping and always together |
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| What is metaphysical poetry? |
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| treats subjects in intellectual way |
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| What are characteristics of metaphysical poetry? |
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-wit
-mind @ work (sudden changes in thought)
-rough beat/meter
-metaphysical conceit
-unpoetical: ideas from science, astronomy
-satire
-arguments w/ reasoned defense
-links emotions w/ intellect (psychological)
-incongruous treatment (God = profane, physical way) |
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| What is metaphysical conceit? |
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| startling, unusual analogy |
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| The compass in Donne's Valediction Forbidding Mourning is an example of what? |
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| Sonnet 18: What does Shakespeare compare the young man to, and why is this a compliment? |
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| a summer's day, he is beautiful |
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| Sonnet 18: How is the summer's day upset? |
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| says man is better than summer's day |
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| Sonnet 18: How is the man better than a summer's day? |
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-summer is too short/temporary
-too hot and windy |
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| Sonnet 18: What does the "eye of heaven" stand for? |
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| Sonnet 18: What does "gold complexion dimmed" mean? |
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| Sonnet 18: How else is nature undercut? |
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| gets worse but man will never fade |
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| Sonnet 18: What are Shakespeare's 3 promises to the man? |
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-always beautiful
-never going to die
-never fade |
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Sonnet 18: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee. = ? |
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| Sonnet 18: What does "this" refer to that lives? |
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| Sonnet 18: what is the key word? |
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| Sonnet 29: What does the man by himself? |
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| cry, pray nonsense to God, picks out his flaws, curses his fate |
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| Sonnet 29: What does the man wish for? |
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| wants more $, friends, perception, "featured like him"- better appearances |
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| Sonnet 29: What is the result of man's wishing? |
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| Sonnet 29: What is the volta? |
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| Sonnet 29: What "haply" happens when speaker thinks of lover? |
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| becomes happy and forgets envy of others |
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| Sonnet 29: What is the key word? |
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| Sonnet 29: What does "like to the lark" mean? |
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| like a bird singing; his spirit rising |
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