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- Love Through the Ages Poetry
- Whoso list to hunt
- Iambic pentameter, petrarchan sonnet, Octane and Sestet as well as a volta
- Courting Anne Boleyn? Caesura- 'fainting' Sybellence- 'so sore' Conflicting emotions, change in poem at point of realisation
- Tudor Era, Henry 8th on the throne 'Caesar', lover portrayed as the hunter and the lady as a 'deer'- play on words common at the time.
- Courtly love, forbidden, unattainable, idealised
- The Flea
- Metaphysical Conceit- extended metaphor
- 3 stanzas, AABBCCDDD rhyme
- 'Sucked me first', 'maidenhood'- virginity, he wishes to have sex with her- she however squashes the insect
- Physical love
- A song (Absent from thee)
- Restoration rake- libertine, live fast die young
- similar to the scrutiny although less arrogant
- wants to live out fantasies, then "to thy safe bosom I retire"
- To his coy mistress
- Metaphysical- witty argument- Carpe Diem
- Hedonism and sexual ******- physical love
- exaggeration, metaphors "worms shall try that long preserv'd virginity"
- The Scrutiny
- Cavalier poet- the time of charles II- civil war, royalist
- physical desires, arrogant, high up in society
- wishes to 'play the field' infidelity, "skillful mineralists"
- Sonnet 116
- Iambic Pentameter, Sonnet. ABAB rhyme scheme. Rhyming couplet at the end.
- didactic language- teaching the reader a lesson about what true love is.
- Elizabethan Era
- idealised, unconditional, spiritual, romantic, infinite, pure
- The Garden of Love
- romantic movement
- 'thou shalt not'- old testament. Religious- against religion and strict rule.
- ABAB rhyme, internal rhyme
- the ideal set against the reality of love, the restriction of free love
- Song (Ae fond kiss)
- AABB Quatrains, suits the song form, Scottish accent- personal poem
- mutual love and respect, platonic love affair, no bitterness, romantic ideas
- emotive onomatopoeic, repetition 'farewell'- pain of parting with Nancy
- She walks in beauty
- dellusioned by love- idealised love, unobtainable
- Romantic poet- Lord Byron- captivated by her beauty
- 3 stanzas, regular rhyme scheme. Enjambment- cannot pause for breath
- Antithesis- 'shade' 'ray' 'more' 'less'- opposites, personal emotion
- Remember
- Rhyme Scheme ABBAABBACDDECE- iambic pentameter and sonnet. 5 iambs per line. Petrarchan sonnet.
- mourning and remembrane, romantic love.
- Rossetti- religious, precocious family. Self sacrificial or commanding?
- The Ruined Maid
- Hardy. Class differences, Realist social satire. Victorian.
- jealousy- distinct accents- impoverished country dialect vs formal eloquence. The maid is unapologetic, sarcastic.
- Rhyme scheme resisted by the ruin maid (second speaker)- consists of dialogue.
- Country bumpkin and formal lady both set up to fail in society. 'Melia' a prostitute? Superficiality.
- At an Inn
- Victorian 1900s- social class, religion, strong moral codes- sexual acts saved for marriage
- inn keepers think they are a married couple. bitterness that nothing happened between them- a facade
- caesura and alliteration stopping- pessimism, personification of love, focus on the then and now
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- Ballard, repetition, cyclical, tells a story
- Seduced by an elf, femme fetale- temptress, speaker in danger, under influence of drug/ seduction
- pathetic fallacy, volter- 'she' (the elf) now in control 'wild wild eyes'
- false, dangerous love
- Non sum Qualis eram bornae sub regno cynarare
- title from Horace Ode, Dowson fell in love with 11 year old girl, decadent movement
- Repetition of 'Cynara'- obsessed with her, desperation, 12 syllable beginning each stanza- Alexandrine, carry story line
- with prostitute but faithful to old lover- 'red' of prostitute, 'lilies' (purity innocence of children)
- corrupt love, abusing love- getting over loss by indulging more in decadence
- Whoso list to hunt
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