English Poetry and Literature

wrote the passionate Shepherd to His Love;
he went to ___ University

poet that was a spy; he went to jail, was involved in street fights; and evetually died by being stabbed in the eye; wrote Dido, Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine; The Jew of Malta; The Massacre at Paris; Edward II; and Doctor Falcus

Marlowe's greatest tragic heroes have been called _; self-driven, pwer hungry men who refuse to recognize either their limitations as human beings or their responsibilities to God and their fellow creatures

What is the Passionate Shepherd about? What type of poem is it?

work tha tis set in an idealized countryside, and their characters are often blends of the naive and the sophisticated; latin for shepherd

__ was Queen Elizabeth's confidential secretary and captain of her guard; made may enemies; King james, whose mind was poisoned by others, sentenced this man to death when Elizabeth died; he was imprisoned in the Tower of London; wrote a History of the World; allowed to undertake last voyage to Guiana

Who wrote The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd?

What is the Nymph's Reply saying?

What is Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 about?

poet who wrote the poem Song

- wrote learned, passonate, argumentative poetry, most never published
- first aim to be a courtier: a member of the queen's government
- serious handicap: Roman Catholic
- became a law student
- father died when he was four
- secretly married 17 year old, Anne More
- became known as important defender of the Church of England
- King James I persuaded him to become a clergyman in 1615

What is Song about?

wrote Paradise Lost

- two outstanding poems by him are Comus and Lycidas

celebrates the memory of a dead poem
- this one called Lycidas remembers Edward King
----> It is also called a _- because it imitates ancient ones by using imagery of hseperds and their flocks

John Milton, when between King Charles and the government, Milton wrote supporting the __. Therefore, some refer to him as a __.
during part of this period, Milton served in the gov of England under __, who with the title of lord protector, ruled England after the Parliamentary party won the Civil Wars and executed King Charles.

At age 44, this poet was completely blind
Believed in an intelligent, capable, and virtuous government
he was jailed after the dead king's son returned from exile and was crowneed King Charles II

Milton published __ twice: first in a ten-book version in 1667 and then in twelve books in 1674, the year of his death. __ seems to be the protanonist in Books III- X
__ is a 10, 565- line poem; the poem ranges back from hell and heaven; the main actions take place on Earth with Adam and Eve, choosing to obey or disobey God

What two things does an epic poet do?

Milton decided to write his epic in his native language and in shakespeare's meter, which is __, or unrhymed iambic pentameter.

- poet who was a bricklayer by his stepfather
- became acquainted with Eilliam Canmden, headmaster and scholar of westminster School who enrolled thi spoet in his school

- joined the English army and fought against the spanish at flanders; killed the Spanish champion in single combat
- two brushes with the law: killed a fellow actor and escaped hanging by showing he could read and when he went to prison for making derogatory remarks about Scotland in a play

- became known as a dramatist
- particularly good at devising masques for the court of King james
- wrote traedies and comedies for the public theaters

- published a numberof plays and poems under __, a label traditinally reserved for more intellectual subjects, like theology and history
- literary dictator; buried near Chaucer in Westminster Abbey (today as Poet's Corner)

__, the most important poet of the early 18th century, was a clid prodigy
at 16, began poetic career, as the Roman poet Virgil did, bywriting __- poems describing the countryside;
- when 23, published An essay on Criticism, a poem inspired by the Latin poet Horace's Art of Poetry

At 24, __ published a miniature classical epic, the Rape of the Lock
- translated Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey
- referred to as neoclassical (new classical) poet
- early success inspired ienvy, who ridiculed himn
- to defend himself, he turned to __, a kind of writing highly congenialto his temperament

Pope wrote the __, which attacks dull, uninteresting writers of all kinds and shows the forces of stupidity,ignorance, and folly taking over theworld, adn the __, which pass judgment on certainimmoral men and women as well as on very rich eopel who lack common sense and good taste

For writers of Pope's time, the purpose of poetry was what? W/ exception of Shakespear, Pope is the most widely quoted writer in all of English lit, because he wrote in __, in which a memorable thought is expressed in a pair of rhyming lines.

pope expresses himself in __, which uses parallel structures to rpresent a balanced contrast; by compressing elements of similarity and difference, __ helps to make a statement more forceful and (often) more memorable

__ is a contrast of ideas expressed in a gramatically balanced statement

pope is the greastest master of the _. each __ consists of two rhymed lines of _ (for variety, Pope occasinally introduces a __.) Many express a couple though in a complete sentence, which is called __.

___ is Pope's long, philosophical poem, published when he was 45. the poem is concerned not only with "man" by which Pope means the whole human race, but the whole unvierse

Who wrote A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels?

__ was a courtier of enry VIII and spench much time traveling abroad as the king's ambassador/

- greatly admired Italian poetry; he brought a new kind of poem, the love sonnet, to England from Italy; his english sonnets are actualyl adaptations of Italian sonnets

__ wrote many delightful lyrics modeled on English dancesongs, but never had any works printed or publicly distributed. He had no ambition to be known as a __, or a learned man of letters, the sort of person who published books.

In 1557, an enterprisign printer named _ published Songs and Sonnets, an anthology containing ninety-seven of Wyatt's oems. This book, now called __, has a bad rep today because __ improved the poems by changing words so the poems sounded somoother to his ears.

What is Whoso List to Hunt about? Who else was attracted to this person?

Whta is Whoso List to Hunt about?

What warning does the speaker give potential hunters of the woman?

What image does the speaker use to show that he finalyl decided the cahse is hopeless?

Poetic __ is a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. It is a rhythmic "beat"- like the steady pulse that draws you into dance music.
_ basic unit is the __: It consists of one stressed syllable and one of more unstressed syllables. The four basic metrical feet are :
__, __, __, __

Poets also use two other metrical devices: the __, or double stress, and the __, or pause

The anaylsis of a poem's meter is called __.

__ served as personal secretary to the earl of Leicester, then favorite of Queen Elizabeth.
- wrote hisfirst book, The Shepheardes Calender (1579), a set of twelve pastoral poems, one for each month).
- given an Irish castle and a vast estate in County Cork; resented by English troops: lived thirty miles from Raleigh

- wrote the Faerie Queen
- when his first wife died, he married Elizabeth Boyle, which he devoted Amoretti and Epithalamion
- his castle was burned and his infant son was killed by the English
- he escaped to London where he died suddenly in 1599

- buried mear Chaucer in Westminster Abbey, which is known as Poets Corner
- least hiighly regarded when it comes to Chaucer and Milton
- his language is such a hybrid of Chaucerian and Elizabethan English that even when the work was brand new, some purists objected to it.

Spenser's __ is a sequence of eighty-nine sonnets recording a man's two-year courtship of a woman named Elizabeth. In sonnet __, he uses the convention the burning man and the icey lady. Sonnet __ uses another convention, the writer
s "eternizing conceit."

longest epic poem in the English language

In Sonnet 75, what way is the love of the two people still alive?

__ wrote a poems about a woman named __.
- Sonnets in the Petrarchan manner contain many ingenious comparisons, which in time became known as __. A __ is a fanciful comparison of two apparently very different things.

__ shape their emotion within a strict sturcutre: fourteen lines of rhymed iambic pentameter, organized in two stanzas, on of eight lines (an _) and one of six lines (a __).

in most Italian sonnets, the octave describes a situation, and the sestet describes a change in the situation. This change is called the __. Sometimes the __ presents the problem and the__ a solution or even another viewpoint.

Two __ forms- the __ and __ sonnets- originated in the Renaissance. They both use iambic pentameter, but both differ from Petrarchan sonnet in having three four-lien stanzas (__) and a concluding couplet.

In the Faerie Queen, the word __ means grand, heroic beings whose superhuman powers come from their own virtue and piety.

The Faerie Queene herself is __, an idealized portrait of __, and her realm is at once the England that Spenser loved and a strange, imaginary country.

__ contain multiple characters and multiplying polots spreading out in all directoins, unlike classical epics like The Odyssey.

In the Faerie Queene, who is the foul femal creature?

Who wrote a Madest Proposal

What is the Modest Proposal trying to bring to light? Why does he suggest this?

One device satirists use is _.

In the beginning of A Modest Proposal, what does Swift address?
At what age has the Swift found the solution for the kid?

In a Modest Proposal, hwat is his modest proposal?

What bias does Swift write in his Modest Proposal?

What is the cost of nursing a beggar's child?
What is the city?

Who did he say is his acquaintaince that had frequent experience of that idea?
Why did he say that? What does he say a famous man named Sallmanaazor tell him?

What other problem does the narrator take up? What is his solution, and how is it similar to his main proposal?

What are his six reasons for suggesting eating the kids?

What is his real solution?

What two points support the narrator's proposal?