Herrick and Marvell Notes, Sonnet 30 & 75, Whoso List to Hunt, Death be Not Proud, On His Blindness Flashcards by Gail I

(Herrick) Herrick was raised by a … mother, graduated from …, became a …, and produced a … just like …. did

widowed; Cambridge University; clergyman; single volume of poems; George Herbert

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(Herrick) Herrick was born into the …, and Herbert was born into the …

prosperous merchant class; aristocracy

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(Herrick) Herrick was an … to his uncle, who was a London … and …

apprentice; goldsmith; jeweler

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(Herrick) Herrick didn’t enter the university until he was …, which was considered a late age at the time, and left when he was …

22; 29

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(Herrick) After leaving university, for the first several years, he enjoyed himself in London as a member of … of …

Ben Jonson’s circle; young friends

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(Herrick) the serious part of Herrick’s life did not begin until he was

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(Herrick) At 38, he was called a parish in …, in …, far from London, in the “…” which Londoners habitually regarded as … and …

Dean Prior; Devonshire; West Country; wretched; barbaric

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(Herrick) According to some of herrick’s poems, being in Dean Prior was an …., and according to others, it was ….

intolerable exile; heaven on earth

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(Herrick) Herrick’s stay in Dean Prior came to an end in 1647 with the arrival of …, which deprived him of his … and substituted in his place a clergyman of a more … stripe

Parliamentary Army; parish; puritanical

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(Herrick) When the … was restored about 13 years later, so was …, and he lived on at Dean Prior until he died at the age of …

King; Herrick; 83

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(Herrick) While deprived of his parish and living in London, Herrick published a fat little book containing … poems, with the title …

1399; Hesperides, or the Works Both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick

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(Herrick) Less than a fourth of the poems fit in the … category, and these are mainly witty verses on … and …; all the rest of the poems are definitely “…”

divine biblical characters; events; human

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(Herrick) The word Hesperides in the title is borrowed from …; it is the collective name for the … who live in a … somewhere in the …, where they watch over a … that bears … The title implies that Herrick’s book is a …. full of …

classical mythology; sisters; garden; West; tree; golden apples; garden; precious things

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(Herrick) Herrick was so steeped in Latin poetry that he frequently wrote his poems as if he were an …., imposing pagan …, …, and … on the English country people and his own household

ancient Roman; customs; creeds; rituals

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(Herrick) He imitated the Latin …, especially …, when he addressed poems to … with such classical names as …, …, …, …, and … But regardless of how erotic he sounds, Herrick knew only … ladies; never a breath of scandal touched his own bachelor life

poets; Catullus; beautiful women; Julia; Corinna; Perilla; Anthea; Electra; imaginary

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(Marvell) Marvel was the son of a … who sent him to …

clergyman; Cambridge University

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(Marvell) Poet John Milton, who was not easily …, said that Marvell was “… in the … and …”

impressed; well read; Greek; Latin classics

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(Marvell) He traveled for a time on the …

continent

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(Marvell) there is no record of Marvell’s having been involved in the great … of the 1640’s

upheaval

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(Marvell) Marvell seems to have survived the … without belonging to either the … or the … side

Civil War; Royal; Parliamentary side

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(Marvell) Around 1650, Marvell became a tutor to …, an … and a daughter of …, who had served as … of the …

Mary Fairfax; heiress; Sir Thomas Fairfax; Lord General; Parliamentary armies

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(Marvell) The Fairfaxes had several large estates, one of them at a place called …, and there Marvell wrote a remarkable long poem, “…”

Nun Appleton; Upon Appleton House

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(Marvell) Marvell did not … his poems and wrote only for his friends’ and his own …

publish; entertainment

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(Marvell) Marvell presumably wrote his best poems at the

Fairfax household

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(Marvell) Marvell became tutor to a ward of ..., the ... and virtual ... of England in the 1650's

Oliver Cromwell; Lord Protector; dictator

(Marvell) In 1657, he became assistant to ..., who needed help in carrying out his duties as .... because he was ..

John Milton; Latin Secretary to the Council of State; blind

(Marvell) When King Charles II was restored and the Commonwealth government dissolved in 1660, Marvell somehow had enough influence with the ... to ...

Royalists; save Milton's life

(Marvell) Under ..., Marvell became attentive in ... and served until his death as ... for his native city, ...

Charles II; politics; Member of Parliament; Hull

(Marvell) At this point in his career he did begin to publish ... against his ... and ... on issues of the day. But his lyric poems remained in manuscript until after his ..., when his housekeeper, who called herself ... and claimed to be his ..., ... to a ..., who brought them out

verse satires; political opponents; prose pamphlets; death; Mary Marvell; wife; sold them; publisher

(Marvell) Marvell's posthumous volume, called ..., made little impression when it appeared in 1681. Styles in poetry had changed after 1660, so that Marvell's witty, ingenious ... must have seemed old-fashioned to readers who admired the ..., ... poems of John Dydren and other ... writers

Miscellaneous Poems; metaphors; lucid; rational; Restoration

(Marvell) To many judicious critics, his poems seem to sum up much that is admirable in ... Like Jonson, he is a master .., always in control of his materials.

Renaissance lyric poetry; craftsman

(Marvell) His poems have the ..., ..., and ... associated with the "..."

precision; urbanity; lightness of touch; sons of Ben

(Marvell) Many of Marvell's poems are also, under their graceful surfaces, ... and ..., like Donne's and Herbert's. No wonder that Marvell is sometimes called the "..." of all the ... in English

deep; thoughtful; most major; minor poets

(Whoso List to Hunt) Whoso List means

whoever desires

(Whoso List to Hunt) poem with man telling us that he's ... on his ..., because he's attempting the ...

giving up; dreams; impossible

(Whoso List to Hunt) "Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind,/ But as for me, alas, I may no more." hind: ... alas: ... Question: What happened that's stopping him from ... when he knows where ..."

female deer; unfortunately; hunting; the deer is

(Whoso List to Hunt) "The vain travail hath wearied me so sore/ I am of them that farthest cometh behind." vain: .., ..., ... travail: ... He's not a ..

useless; pointless; worthless; hard labor; good hunter

(Whoso List to Hunt) "Yet may I, by no means, my wearied mind/ Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore," 1st line: he is so tired he can't ...; 2nd line: ... becoming obvious; he can't stop thinking about the ..., he knows ... it is and what it would ...

think; enjambment; deer; where; take

(Whoso List to Hunt) "Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore,/ Since in a ... I seek to hold the ...." 1st line: he is ... after the deer and he ...; 2nd line: he is reaching for ...

net; wind; running; faints; nothing

(Whoso List to Hunt) "Whoso list her hunt, I put him out of doubt,/ As well as I, may spend his time in vain." her: he is not talking about a ..., he is talking about a ... I put him out of doubt means to ..., ... 1st line is the ... 2nd line: just like me, you're going to spend your time in ...

deer; woman; reassure; compel; turn; vain

(Whoso List to Hunt) "And graven with diamonds in letters plain/ There is written, her fair neck round about," graven: ... 1st line talking about very ...

engraved; expensive jewelry

(Whoso List to Hunt) "Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,/ And wild for to hold, though I seem tame." Noli me tangere means ... not, because I .... for these lines, the ... is speaking

touch me; belong to Caesar; deer

(Whoso List to Hunt) though it's impossible for everyone, i'm still the ... at it

worst

(Whoso List to Hunt) Ancient Rome, Caesar had ... and branded them with "...."

cattle; Noli me tangere

(Whoso List to Hunt) Wyatt's Caesar figure: .... Wyatt was madly in love with ... Both charges for Wyatt through which he was imprisoned was that Wyatt and Anne were ...

Henry VIII; Anne Boleyn; having an affair

(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) Amoretti means

little love

(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) this sonnet is all about ...: an apparent ...

paradoxes; contradiction

(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) "My love is like to ice, and I to fire:/ How comes it then that this her cold so great" ice: ..., fire: ... they're ... and it's ... for them to be near each other she is ... cold

beloved; speaker; opposites; dangerous; ice

(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) "Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,/ But harder grows the more I her entreat" entreat: try to ... somebody

convince

(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) Question: How is it that I can't ...? Fire melts ice, why can't I melt her? My fire seems to make her ice ... the more I try to convince her to be with me

melt her; harder

(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) "Or how comes it that my exceeding heat/ Is not allayed by her heart-frozen cold," the colder she is, the ... my ...

higher; flames burn

(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) "But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,/ And feel my flames augmented manifold?" augmented: change by .. manifold: ...

increasing; many times over

(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) "What more miraculous thing may be told,/ That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice," is there any greater miracle than this that fire should ... and ice can ...?

harden ice; light fires

(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) "ANd ice, which is congealed with senseless cold,/ Should kindle fire by wonderful device?" senseless implies that it is senseless that she does not ... --> when you get really cold, you lose your ... device: ...

love him; senses; trick

(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) "Such is the power of love in gentle mind,/ That it can alter all the course of kind." This is the power of love, by it's nature an essential ...

paradox

(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) Spenser's frequent topic: ..., but broke his own format when he met the woman who became his wife and wrote about her in a series called ... which starts with ..., to ..., ..., and then to ...

unrequited love; Amoretti; unrequited love; courtship; marriage; children

(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) love sonnet about paradoxes poses an initial question: How is love a ...? couples fight, it deprives you of reason, contradictory desires --> 100% ... and 100% ...

paradox; selfish; selfess

(Sonnet 30: Amoretti) Tom Stoppard wrote play with extended metaphor with love as ...: 2 things that can lean on each other, must 1st make yourself ..., than make an ...--> you will be leaned on most heavily

house of cards; vulnerable; agreement

(sonnet 75) Spenser in ... phase here

courtship

(sonnet 75) "One day I wrote her name upon the strand,/ But came the waves and washed it away:" strand: ... bathos (bathetic): laughing at ...

beach; someone's pain/failure

(sonnet 75) "Again I wrote it with a second hand,/ But came the tide, and made my paines his pray." pray: ...n it was washed away a second time. huge metaphor: as a writer, he's doing something ... trying to make something that will ...

prey; unnatural; last

(sonnet 75) "Vaine man," said she, "that doest in vain assay,/ A mortal thing so to immortalize," vaine: ... what a ... thing you're trying to do, you're trying to immortalize a mortal thing--> my ..., too, is mortal

arrogant; useless; name

(sonnet 75) "For I myself shall like to this decay,/ And eke my name be wiped out likewise.'" we will be ... someday, stop trying to make something ... out of something ... doesn't come easy to lady to accept that love

washed away; permanent; fleeting

(sonnet 75) "'No so,' quod I, 'let baser things devise/ To die in dust, but you shall live by fame:" he says she's ..., less important people, but not her, will die

wrong

(sonnet 75) "My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,/ And in the heavens write your glorious name." you're wrong because I'm a very good poet, and I will write a poem about you and people will now your name for years after; believed that poems were composed in ... as well as on paper--> she would die neither a ... or ... death

heaven; literal; spiritual

(sonnet 75) "Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,/ Our love shall live, and later life renew." let the world ..., we will be in ... forever

die; love

(Death Be Not Proud) not an ... title Donne's sermons and poetry blended Donne wrote the ..., which sound like ...., and the ..., which are ... poems that also sound like ....

original; holy sonnets; sermons; meditations; prose; sermons

(Death Be Not Proud) this is actually

Holy Sonnet #10

(Death Be Not Proud) Donne was a ... poet: try to find ultimate reality behind ... --> he used everyday things to get people to ... these

metaphysical; biggest questions; understand

(Death Be Not Proud) tone: .../...., as if he's addressing a ... this poem is addressed to ...

argumentative; indignant; bully; death

(Death Be Not Proud) Q: How did the dead not ..., how will Donne escape ..., why does he ... death?

die; death; pity

(Death Be Not Proud) "Death be not proud, though some have called thee/ Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so," no reason for you to be

arrogant

(Death Be Not Proud) "For those whom thou think's thou dost overthrow/ Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me;" for those you think you killed, you ... you won't ... poor death makes it seem as if he ... death

didn't; kill me; pities

(Death Be Not Proud) "From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,/ Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow," sleep doesn't ... me, and death is merely a ...

scare; long nap

(Death Be Not Proud) "And soonest our best men with thee do go,/ Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery." our best men ... a ... all you do is deliver me from my ...,w hich only brings me ...

deserve; nap; body; problems

(Death Be Not Proud) "Though art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,/ And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell" calls death ..., ..., says he bends to the ... of humans death's friends: ..., .., and ...

slave; servant; will; poison; war; sickness

(Death Be Not Proud) "And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,/ And better than thy stroke; why swellest thou then?" you are not that powerful, I can just get ..., which is more ... than you will ever be

heroin; enjoyable

(Death Be Not Proud) "One short sleep past, we wake eternally,/ And death shall be no more, Death thou shalt die." you aren't even ..., I will wake to ..., where there is no death Death, you shall ...

real; eternal life; die

(On His Blindness) Milton's best and most famous work: ... which he wrote "to explain the ways of ... to ..."

paradise lost; god; man

(On His Blindness) Milton uses ... as source text for Paradise Lost, and he writes about ...

Genesis; man's fall

(On His Blindness) There is no clear ... in Paradise Lost | Satan's question: why would you make me, knowing I will become what I am ---> God gives Satan ..., as an act of ...

protagonist; Hell; love

(On His Blindness) Milton was ... | He would wake up early, compose lines in his ..., and recite them to his daugher later, and she'd ...

blind; head; write them down

Herrick and Marvell Notes, Sonnet 30 & 75, Whoso List to Hunt, Death be Not Proud, On His Blindness Flashcards

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