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53 Cards in this Set
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from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum
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Amelia Lanyer
contains "To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty" and "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" |
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"The Description of Cookham"
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Amelia Lanyer
country house poem (when the author compliments a wealthy patron or a friend through a description of his country house), which is a type of topographical (describes a landscape/place) poem contains pathetic fallacy (personification) & religious terms |
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"To Celia"
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Ben Johnson
English Renaissance a toast to Celia (wants her to look at him) "leave a kiss but in the cup" last line: "Not of itself, but thee." |
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"To Penshurst"
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Ben Johnson
English Renaissance country house poem (when the author compliments a wealthy patron or a friend through a description of his country house), which is a type of topographical (describes a landscape/place) poem first half describes nature, second half describes people |
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"To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us"
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Ben Johnson
English Renaissance name-drops a lot of people couplets, no verses |
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"On My First Son"
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Ben Johnson
couplets first line: "Farewell, my child..." last line: "...may never like too much." |
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"The Altar"
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George Herbert
from The Temple shaped like an altar religious poetry: devotional (personal worthiness/struggles), prophetic (based on revelation), or mystical (experience of the divine) |
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"Redemption"
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George Herbert
3 quatrains and a couplet ABABCDCDEFEF landlord/tenant analogy for finding God religious poetry: devotional (personal worthiness/struggles), prophetic (based on revelation), or mystical (experience of the divine) |
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"Easter"
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George Herbert
meant to be sung? lute? sing his praise? sestet (6 lines), lines 2 and 4 are short (under 4 words each) religious poetry: devotional (personal worthiness/struggles), prophetic (based on revelation), or mystical (experience of the divine) |
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"Easter Wings"
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George Herbert
from The Temple shaped like wings (sideways) religious poetry: devotional (personal worthiness/struggles), prophetic (based on revelation), or mystical (experience of the divine) uses typology to understand and represent corporeal conditions religious poetry: devotional (personal worthiness/struggles), prophetic (based on revelation), or mystical (experience of the divine) |
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"Affliction 1"
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George Herbert
sestets (lines 2 and 4 are somewhat shorter) first line: "When first thou..." last line: "I love Thee not." religious poetry: devotional (personal worthiness/struggles), prophetic (based on revelation), or mystical (experience of the divine) |
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"Prayer 1"
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George Herbert
3 quatrains, 1 couplet starts w/the word "Prayer" religious poetry: devotional (personal worthiness/struggles), prophetic (based on revelation), or mystical (experience of the divine) |
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"The Forerunner"
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George Herbert
sestets talks about harbringers (messengers/warning signs), sugarcane, and chalk religious poetry: devotional (personal worthiness/struggles), prophetic (based on revelation), or mystical (experience of the divine) |
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"The Pulley"
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George Herbert
quintets talks about strength ABABA starts w/"When God at first made man" ends w/the word "breast" religious poetry: devotional (personal worthiness/struggles), prophetic (based on revelation), or mystical (experience of the divine) |
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"The Collar"
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George Herbert
not separated into verses ends w/"calling, Child! / And I replied, My Lord." religious poetry: devotional (personal worthiness/struggles), prophetic (based on revelation), or mystical (experience of the divine) |
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"The Pilgrimage"
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George Herbert
sestets talks about a rock hill, being robbed, deceived, a chair religious poetry: devotional (personal worthiness/struggles), prophetic (based on revelation), or mystical (experience of the divine) |
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"Jordan 2"
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George Herbert
sestets ends w/"save expense" religious poetry: devotional (personal worthiness/struggles), prophetic (based on revelation), or mystical (experience of the divine) |
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"Jordan 1"
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George Herbert
quintets all questions religious poetry: devotional (personal worthiness/struggles), prophetic (based on revelation), or mystical (experience of the divine) |
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"The Windows"
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George Herbert
quintets talks about glass religious poetry: devotional (personal worthiness/struggles), prophetic (based on revelation), or mystical (experience of the divine) |
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"Denial"
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George Herbert
quintets lines 2 and 5 are short ABABC about hearing and tune religious poetry: devotional (personal worthiness/struggles), prophetic (based on revelation), or mystical (experience of the divine) |
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"Virtue"
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George Herbert
quatrains "And thou must die." is repeated over and over |
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"Man"
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George Herbert
sestets starts w/"My God" about man, symmetry, servants |
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"Love 3"
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George Herbert
sestets conversation w/love starts w/"Love bade me welcome" ends w/"So I did sit and eat." |
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Lycidas
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John Milton
pastoral elegy that memorializes a loved one |
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L'Allegro
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John Milton
pastoral poem couplets of iambic tetrameter mirth; active, cheerful life; spring day |
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Il Penseroso
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John Milton
couplets of iambic tetrameter melancholy |
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Holy Sonnets
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John Donne
religious Petrarchan sonnets (2 quatrains and a sestet) |
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"The Flea"
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John Donne
about a flea metaphysical conceit |
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"The Good-Morrow"
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John Donne
"I wonder...those can die." |
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"Song"
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John Donne
star "And find / what mind" "And swear / No where" "Yet she / will be" |
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"The Canonization"
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John Donne
"let me love" repeats love 9 line stanzas |
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"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
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John Donne
quatrains, iambic tetrameter metaphysical conceit about a compass |
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"The Ecstasy"
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John Donne
quatrains, iambic tetrameter pregnant, offspring, souls negotiating, sees picture of kids in her eyes |
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"The Relic"
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John Donne
11 line verses grave, love, Mary Magdalen, unity in that they're both genderless |
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"Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward."
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John Donne
couplets, no verses sphere, East, zenith, O Saviour |
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"A Hymn to Christ"
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John Donne
septets ships, sea |
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"Hymn to God, My God, In My Sickness"
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John Donne
quintets lines 2 and 5 rhyme |
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Paradise Lost
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John Milton
enjambment addresses question of free will in his theodicy tragic soliloquy (sad/bad ends are inevitable), pastoral (natural world = a retreat from civilized life), domestic farce (house = microcosm of teh world), difficulties begin at home, allegory (understanding requires interpretation), romance, country house, epic simile |
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King Lear
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William Shakespeare
blank verse tragedy: play or other literary work of a serious or sorrowful character, w/a fatal or disastrous conclusion |
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Twelfth Night
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William Shakespeare
blank verse comedy: form of literature in which happy conclusions are common and represented parody: style and theme are satirized by being applied to appropriate or unlikely subjects (poor imitations) |
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Sonnets
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William Shakespeare
Shakespearean sonnet: 3 quatrains and a couplet (epigram/resolution) Dark Lady is unconventionally ugly; loves a young man |
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The Faerie Queene
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Edmund Spenser
lyric, Spenserian stanza: 8 iambic pentameter lines and 1 Alexandrine (12 syllables, iambic), epic (heroic, historical, Biblical), romance (chivalric, dragon-slaying, marriage plot, Arthurian) each book talks about a moral virtue praise of Queen E Una = pure religion, Duessa = papal authority (arrogant & corrupt w/fancy clothes), Redcross = Christ, Archimago = anti-Christ/Pope, Abessa = monasticism (Catholic) |
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The Defense of Poesy
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Sir Philip Sidney
essay non-poetical defense of poetry Renaissance Humanism: revival of classical learning (Greek), focused on civic performance and scholar-politicians, merged w/theology |
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Astrophil and Stella
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Sir Philip Sidney
sonnets Shakespearean (3 quatrains and a couplet epigram) love |
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"The Coronet"
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Andrew Marvell
about a crown, religious, guilt and pain, weave a garland to replace the crown of thorns (sin) that nature has to wear |
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"Bermudas"
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Andrew Marvell
framed poem, couplets about the Bermudas |
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"A Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body"
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Andrew Marvell
couplets soul and body speak to each other |
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"The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn"
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Andrew Marvell
couplets fawn = purity |
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"To His Coy Mistress"
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Andrew Marvell
couplets trying to seduce some chick into giving him her virginity, says they should do it because time is limited |
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"The Mower Against Gardens"
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Andrew Marvell
pastoral, couplets nature is innocent, human inventions invade country life, seduce/allure |
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"The Garden"
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Andrew Marvell
octets with couplets of 8 syllables nature, paradise |
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"Upon Appleton House"
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Andrew Marvell
octets w/couplets stuff is numbered country house poem to Lord Fairfax (has verses, unlike Penshurt and Cookham) lots of capitalization |
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"Inviting a Friend to Supper"
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Ben Jonson
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