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The Miller's Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer - WOMEN |
A woman is there "for any good lord to lay in his bed, or for any good yeoman to wed" |
Medieval, poem |
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The Art of Love, Andreas Cappelanus - physical manifestations of love |
"Every lover turns pale in the presence of his beloved." |
Medieval, Prose |
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The Art of Courtly Love, Cappelanus - JEALOUSY |
"he who is jealous cannot love" "true jealousy always increases the effects of love" |
Medieval Prose |
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Sir Phillip Sydney, My True Love Hath my Heart |
"My True-Love Hath my Heart and I have his,/ a just exchange, one for the other given" |
Renaissance poem |
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Shakespeare, Sonnet 130 |
"My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" "I think my love as rare, as any she belied with false compare" |
Renaissance poem Rejection of Petrarchan form and Courtly Love |
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Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress |
"My vegetable love should grow" |
Metaphysical poem Physical love, phallic imagery Unusual for metaphysical as just about sex, not a transcendent extended metaphor etc |
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John Donne, To His Mistress Going to Bed - 3 |
"As souls unbodied, bodies uncloth'd must be" |
Metaphysical poem Transcendental spiritual aspect Typical if metaphysical Religious (souls) typical of Donne |
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A Valediction Forbidding Mourning - Donne |
"dull, sublunary lovers' love" |
Metaphysical poem Subverts metaphysical view of spiritual love 'sublunary' Cynical attitude fits with title of poem |
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Donne, To His Mistress Going to Bed 1 |
"Hairy diadem" "full nakedness!" "what needst thou have more covering than a man" |
Metaphysical poem Women, sex, physical love |
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Donne, To His Mistress Going to Bed 2 |
"As liberally as to a midwife shew thyself" |
Metaphysical poem Sexual physical attraction Simile |
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The Good-morrow, Donne |
"I wonder, by my troth, what Thou and I did, til we loved?" "were we not wean'd til then?" |
Metaphysical poem Attitude to love - were children until they loved |
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Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing |
"I'd rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he love me" - Beatrice |
Renaissance, drama Spoken by a female character, unusual as women had no autonomy etc therefore this could be proto-feminist Negative attitude to love |
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Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream 1 |
"Like a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition" "two seeming bodies, but with one heart" |
Renaissance, drama Platonic as two sisters Natural imagery Equality, relates to my true love Hath my Heart |
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Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream 2 |
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind" |
Deep and true love, not superficial Ignores aesthetics |
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Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew |
"I will be master of mine own. She is my goods, my chattels" |
Renaissance drama Typical male view of women as wives, not love but possession |
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Richard Lovelace, The Scrutiny |
"with spoils of meaner beauties crowned, I laden will return to thee" |
Cavalier poem Libertine attitude to sex displayed Physical love not spiritual love No commitment |
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Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene |
"that greatest Glorious Queene of Faerie land" |
Cavalier poetry Reminiscent of medieval era Places women on pedestal Love is physical attributes, women are fairies magical mysterious etc Courtly Love |
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Aphra Behn, The Rover 1 |
"I don't intend every he that likes me shall have me, only he that I like" |
Restoration drama Written by a women presents a female perspective accurately Female autonomy, proto-feminism Judicious attitude towards love Subverts conventions |
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Aphra Behn, The Rover 2 |
"marriage is as certain a bane to love as lending money to friendship" |
Restoration play Negative attitude to love spoken by a male Negative marriage |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde |
"No woman is a genius, women are a decorative sex" |
Victoria play Misogyny Attitudes towards women |
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Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights |
"existence after losing her would be hell" |
Victorian Prose Hyperbole Destructive desire Negative attitude to love |
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Great Expectations, Dickens |
"I'll tell you what real love is, blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission" |
Negative attitude towards love |
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Austen, Sense and Sensibility |
"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love" |
Regency Prose Negative attitude to love High expectations, naive |
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Pride and Prejudice |
In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed.you must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. |
Proposals Enduring love |
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Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera |
I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love |
Postmodern Prose Enduring true love Fidelity, monogamy |
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Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights |
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. |
Victorian Prose Spiritual Transcendental connection |
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Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain |
I wish I knew how to quit you |
Postmodern Prose Negative, love addiction |
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Sonnet 116 poetry |
Let me nit to the marriage of true minds / admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds It [love] is the star to every wandering bark |
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Donne, the sun rising |
She's all states, and all Princes I ; / nothing else is |
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Donne, To His Mistress Going to Bed 4 |
O my America! My new-found-land |
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Picture of Dorian Gray - marriage |
The charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties |
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The yellow wallpaper, Charlotte Gilman |
The worst thing I can do is think about my condition |
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Tolstoy, Anna Karenina |
Impure love is not love for me He saw her, like the sun, without even looking |
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Cat on a hot tin roof, Williams |
Living with someone you love can be lonelier - than living entirely alone! If the one that y'love doesnt love you |
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Captain corelli's mandolin, Louis de bernieres |
When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness |
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Dangerous liaisons, de Laclos [epistolary] |
I began to realise that beauty was the least of your qualities. I became fascinated by your goodness. |
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Valentine, Carol Ann Duffy |
Not a Red rose or a satin heart / I give you an onion |
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What is the key difference between modernist and post-modern? |
Modernist changed lit STRUCTURALLY, whereas post modern changed the things it EXAMINED. Social and cultural revolution. |
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