Song (absent from thee)
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- Created on: 17-05-18 21:40
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- A Song (Absent from thee) - John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester)
- Brought up his mother who was deeply religious and autocratic
- Heavy drinker and probably committed fornication
- wrote more frankly about sex than anyone in England before the 20th century
- written during the restoration
- known as being drunk and disorderly and caused many problems in the royal court
- poem includes a lot of satirical humour mainly of religion as Wilmot was an atheist - this was common of his poetry
- Andrew Marvell described him as the 'best English satirist'
- restoration song
- a quatrain of iambic tetrametre
- ABAB
- Cavalier poem
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