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Context: Who so list to hount by sir Thomas Wyatt

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Wyatt was in the court of Henry V and he admired Ann boleyn

Hunting was a large part of the renaissance court culture

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Context: sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

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has a detached tone and is about love as concept

In other sonnets- looks at dangers of Love and lust

Divorcee was uncommon- expressed idea of commitment throughout the poem

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Context: The Flea by John Donne

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May have been written to amuse male friends

He studied law- persuasive argument

Chastity was highly valued

Converted from Catholic to Church of England

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Context: to his coy mistress by Andrew Marvell

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English civil war- idea of making the most out of Time. This fits in with the death that surrounded writers

Poem contrasts to puriton attitudes of the time

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Context: the scrutiny by Richard Lovelace

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He was a soldier and courtly poet

He never married

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Context: a song (absent from thee) by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

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He was Involved in many scandles- prostitution and gambling

Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 signalled an explosion in debauchery and high living

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Context: the garden of love by William Blake

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Blake rejected formalised religion- he thought it was used for social control

He was a dissenter (refused to accept doctrines of the national church)

Rejected that god was vengeful and punitive in the Old Testament

He believed repression of sexuality caused personal unhappiness and social ills, like prostitution, and this lead to things like poverty and venereal disease

Critical of marriage laws and chastity being virtuous

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Context: ae fond kiss by Robert burns

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About his relationship with Agnes mclehose. They wrote letters to eachother

Their relationship was controversial as she was married

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Context: she walks in beauty by lord Byron

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He was known for promiscuity and scandal

Poem was Inspired by his cousin wearing ‘black gown brighter with gold spangles

Romanticism- beauty= being close to nature

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Context: le belle dame sans merci by John Keats

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Her mother died of teberculosis and the brother had the disease too

Poem therefore may reflect his impending death

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Context: remember by Christina Rossetti

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She Had Graves’ disease= Invalid

Written in the Victorian era- high mortality rate, so early death was quite real

Written when she was 19

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Context: the ruined maid by Thomas hardy

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Written in the Victorian era- virtue and virginity were synonymous.

Sex outside of marriage was condemned

Lack of independence for Victorian women- Amelia is independent but only through prostitution/ being a maid

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Context: at the inn by Thomas hardy

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Possibly about his relationship with Florence henniker

Hardy was refused his sexual advances on her

Victorian era- sex outside of marriage condemned and virtue and virginity were synonymous

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Context: Non Sum Qualis by Ernest dowson

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Poet personified clichéd notion of a drunken poet- his poems were melancholic

Adeline foltinowicz inspired his poetry- she rejected his marriage proposal and drowned the pain of his unrequited love with women and wine