Metaphysical Poetry Part Deux

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John Donne nigga! Lemme know something about him.

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He was a metaphysical poet. He often employed the use of 'metaphorical conceits,' or elaborately sustained metaphors that were sometimes grotequse, othertimes funny, and constantly witty. He wrote The Flea, The Song,

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Go and catch a falling star,

Get with child a mandrake root,

Tell me where all past years are,

Or who cleft the Devil's foot,

Teach me to hear mermaids singing,

Or to keep off envy's stinging,

And find

What wind

Serves to advance an honest mind.If thou be'st born to strange sights,

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Song

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Marke but this flea, and marke in this,
How little that which thou deny'st me is;
Me it suck'd first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled bee;
Confesse it, this cannot be said
A sinne, or shame, or losse of maidenhead,

Yet this enjoyes before it wooe,
And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two,
And this, alas, is more than wee would doe.



Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,
When we almost, nay more than maryed are.
This flea is you and I, and this
Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is;
Though parents grudge, and you, w'are met,
And cloysterd in these living walls of Jet.

Though use make thee apt to kill me,
Let not to this, selfe murder added bee,
And sacrilege, three sinnes in killing three.

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The Flea

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Andrew Marvell

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This man was extremely well written, especially considering that he wrote less than Donne and his other contemporaries.

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To His Coy Mistress Description

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Written like a long metaphor. This was among the most famous of the ''carpe diem'' poems of his time.

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Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day;
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood;
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

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To His Coy Mistress

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Native Tradition.

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Plain language, straight to the point. Googe, Wyatt and Raleigh were considered native.

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Native Tradition details

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- Less studied than Petrarchan poetry

- They are usually about something centrally important to humans (friendship, money, etc)

- Ration, logical.

- It's purpose to to instruct rather than entertain.

- There is usually some kind of cause/effect relationship.

- The language is brief, to the point, straightforward.

-Very plain meter

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Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,
But as for me, hélas, I may no more.
The vain travail hath wearied me so sore,
I am of them that farthest cometh behind.
Yet may I by no means my wearied mind
Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore
Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore,
Sithens in a net I seek to hold the wind.
Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt,
As well as I may spend his time in vain.
And graven with diamonds in letters plain
There is written, her fair neck round about:
Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,
And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.

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Whoso List to Hunt - Thomas Wyatt

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They Flee From Me....

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Probably best encapsulates Wyatt's anger, cynicism, longing, and pain.

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Petrarchan conceits are.....

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elaborate, extensive metaphors that deal with internal pain stemming from unrequited love. Aimed at women, generally.

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Petrarchan sonnets have a ______ and _______ relationship.

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Cause and effect.

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Petrarchan: The ____________ is established in the _________, the ________ is carried out or examined in the ___________.

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Problem, octet; Solution, sestet.

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PEtrarchan conceits are generally PRETTY _____________

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Clever and Witty.

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Sir Walter Raleigh was known as the definitive _______________.

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Renaissance man.

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One main idea that came from the Renaissance........

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"Seize the day."

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They Flee From Me has elements of both............

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Native and Petrarchan poetry.

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They flee from me that sometime did me seek
With naked foot, stalking in my chamber.
I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek,
That now are wild and do not remember
That sometime they put themself in danger
To take bread at my hand; and now they range,
Busily seeking with a continual change.

Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise
Twenty times better; but once in special,
In thin array after a pleasant guise,
When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall,
And she me caught in her arms long and small;
Therewithall sweetly did me kiss
And softly said, “Dear heart, how like you this?”

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They Flee From me - Thomas Wyatt

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Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,
But as for me, hélas, I may no more.
The vain travail hath wearied me so sore,
I am of them that farthest cometh behind.
Yet may I by no means my wearied mind
Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore
Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore,
Sithens in a net I seek to hold the wind.
Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt,
As well as I may spend his time in vain.
And graven with diamonds in letters plain
There is written, her fair neck round about:
Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,
And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.

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Whoso List to Hunt - Thomas Wyatt

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In Whoso List to Hunt, there is an _______________ based on hunting.

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extended metaphor

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Farewell, Love, and all thy laws for ever:
Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.
Senec and Plato call me from thy lore,
To perfect wealth my wit for to endeavour.
In blind error when I did persever,
Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh aye so sore,
Hath taught me to set in trifles no store,
And scape forth, since liberty is lever*. [desirable]
Therefore farewell, go trouble younger hearts,
And in me claim no more authority;
With idle youth go use thy property,
And thereon spend thy many brittle darts.
For, hitherto though I've lost my time,
Me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb.

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Farewell, Love - Thomas Wyatt

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Madam, withouten many words,
Once I am sure you will, or no :
And if you will, then leave your
bourds,1
And use your wit, and shew it so,
For, with a beck you shall me call ;
And if of one, that burns alway,
Ye have pity or ruth 2 at all,
Answer him fair, with yea or nay.
If it be yea, I shall be fain ;
If it be nay—friends, as before ;
You shall another man obtain,
And I mine own, and yours no more.

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Madam, Without Many Words - Thomas Wyatt

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The Nightingale was associated

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love.

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Astrophel and Stella incorporates elements from both __________________ and _____________ poetry.

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Pastoral and Petrarchan

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#1 from Astrophel and Stella is written in iambic ______________

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Hexameter

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iambic hexameter =

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"Alexandrine"

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Pastoral poetry deals with..........

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rustic pastoral life that includes shit like shephards, their love interests, and nature sometimes.

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Lycidas is a famous ____________________ by _____________.

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Pastoral elegy; John Milton

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Lycidas deals with the _____________ of _______________.

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Drowning; one of Milton's school friends on a ship that crashed.