Love Through The Ages Anthology

Question 1

Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde - quotes

Answer 1

‘Who so list to hount’ - the woman he is chasing is still available, extended metaphor, dominant, powerful
‘may I by no meanes my weried mynde/Drawe from the Deere’ - suggests he is still enchanted by her and is under a spell, long and drawn out, almost dreamy
‘graven with Diamondes’ - metaphor, precious, rare, lasts forever, possession-like a collar, wealth

Question 2

Sonnet 116 - quotes

Answer 2

‘marriage of true mindes/Admit impediments’ - evokes the institution of marriage, enjambment suggests that true love should have no impediments, love is not bound to anything
‘Love’s not Time’s fool’ - time has been personified, possession, love doesn’t change or perform for anyone
‘I never writ, nor no man ever loved’ - first person pronoun-individual possession, strength of his convictions, rhyming couplet brings the sonnet together

Question 3

The Flea - quotes

Answer 3

‘cloistered in these living walls of jet’ - black = night, darkness/evil, devotion to God
‘It sucked me first and now sucks thee’ - intertwined
‘A sin nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead’ - religious imagery, virginity

Question 4

To His Coy Mistress - quotes

Answer 4

‘Had we but World enough, and Time’ - capitalised, placing emphasis, mortality of love
‘Desarts of vast eternity’ - bare, barren, repeated references to time
‘Times winged Chariot hurrying near’ - angels, freedom, heaven

Question 5

The Scrutiny - quotes

Answer 5

‘A tedious twelve hours space?’ - one night stand, time references
‘spoils of meaner Beauties crowned’ - sleeping around
‘rob thee of a new embrace’ - changes everything, distance remains, women & sex for pleasure

Question 6

A Song (Absent from thee) - quotes

Answer 6

‘To wish all Day, all Night to Mourn’ - capitalised, end of the day - endings
‘The Torments it deserves to try’ - sexual pleasure through pain, biblical, capitalised - emphasis
‘Dear from thine Arms then let me flie’ - freedom

Question 7

The Garden of Love - quotes

Answer 7

‘saw what I had never seen’ - new perception of the same thing, Garden of Eden
‘binding with briars my joys and desires’ - ritual in opposition to nature, pleasure as evil

Question 8

Song (Ae fond kiss) - quotes

Answer 8

‘Deep in heart-wrung tears I’ll pledge thee’ - romantic tropes, powerful emotion
‘Fortune grieves him’
‘star of hope she leaves him’ - realisation that it is not reality

Question 9

She Walks in Beauty - quotes

Answer 9

‘mellowed to that tender light’ - gentle, mature, reality is temporal
‘serenely sweet express’ - sibilance, soft, fleeting

Question 10

Remember - quotes

Answer 10

‘Gone far away into the silent land’ - journey, death, natural
‘darkness and corruption leave’ - negatively bleeding in, movement from romance to realism
‘if you should forget me for a while’ - accepting

Question 11

The Ruined Maid - quotes

Answer 11

‘whence such fair garments, such prosperi-ty’ - focus on appearance, mirrors women’s expectations of the time
‘hag ridden dream’ - can’t escape stereotypes, ideas of witchcraft

Question 12

At an Inn - quotes

Answer 12

‘Veiled smiles bespoke their thought’ - cannot hide away, sibilance - contrasts previous line
‘severing sea and land’ - romantic appeal to the forces of nature

Question 13

La Belle Dame sans Merci - quotes

Answer 13

‘Alone and palely loitering’ - semantic field of loneliness and death
‘haggard and woe-begone’ - melancholy, cusp of seasons
‘no birds sing’ - lost harmony of nature, circular narrative

Question 14

Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae - quotes

Answer 14

‘sick of an old passion’ - lovesick, unfaithful, repeated later on
‘her bought red mouth’ - prostitution, pretending to be someone else

Question 15

Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde

Answer 15

Despairing and vicious pursuit
Failed ‘hunt’ of a woman
Unrequited love

Question 16

Sonnet 116

Answer 16

True love as an enduring, unbending commitment between two people

Question 17

The Flea

Answer 17

Metaphysical seduction
Using grotesque imagery to persuade a woman to stay with him

Question 18

To His Coy Mistress

Answer 18

Carpe diem - persuading the woman that time is short and she should partake in sexual acts as he is

Question 19

The Scrutiny

Answer 19

Speaker is rejecting the lady he has spent the night with
Wants to be with other women - unfaithfulness

Question 20

A Song (Absent from thee)

Answer 20

Subverts the conventions of traditional love poetry - serial unfaithfulness

Question 21

The Garden of Love

Answer 21

Religion should have a focus on love, freedom and not rules

Question 22

Song (Ae fond kiss)

Answer 22

The parting of two lovers
Speaker is upset about their departure

Question 23

She Walks in Beauty

Answer 23

Speaker tries to capture a woman’s beauty as she walks by

Question 24

Remember

Answer 24

Bidding farewell to the lover, urging them not to fall into despair

Question 25

The Ruined Maid

Answer 25

Reunion of two former neighbours in different circumstances Mistress vs farm woman

Question 26

At an Inn

Answer 26

Inconsistent love Speaker and friend are mistaken for lovers Become lovers but cannot be together

Question 27

La Belle Dame sans Merci

Answer 27

A knight encounters a beautiful elf woman who abandons him and leaves him void of love

Question 28

Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae

Answer 28

Musing over inability to forget his former lover Unruly and excessive, trying to drown out Cynara

Question 29

Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde - context

Answer 29

RENAISSANCE Sonnet form - introduced to England by Wyatt King was Henry VII Diplomat for the king in France and Italy Sonnet is a conceit which hides feelings

Question 30

Sonnet 116 - context

Answer 30

ELIZABETHAN/RENAISSANCE Feudal system started to erode Shakespearean sonnet is divided into 4 parts

Question 31

The Flea - context

Answer 31

JACOBEAN Acts as a disguise to discuss sex Had 12 kids and his wife died during childbirth Donne was a Catholic man who married in secret

Question 32

To His Coy Mistress - context

Answer 32

COMMONWEALTH/CAVALIER Was an MP during the English civil war Alive during the plague Cromwell sympathiser

Question 33

The Scrutiny - context

Answer 33

CAROLINE Father died when he was 9 In the king’s court at 13 Royalist during the civil war Imprisoned as a pro-loyalist

Question 34

A Song (Absent from thee) - context

Answer 34

RESTORATION Had an affair with a teenage actress Wilmot’s work was censored censored in the Victorian era Love, sex, personal, freedom

Question 35

The Garden of Love - context

Answer 35

AUGUSTAN (ENLIGHTENMENT) Key figure in romanticism Altered states Industrialisation vs altered past

Question 36

Song (Ae fond kiss) - context

Answer 36

AUGUSTAN (ENLIGHTENMENT) First love died from typhoid Romantic pioneer Sent to a slave plantation

Question 37

She Walks in Beauty - context

Answer 37

ROMANTIC II/GOTHIC Fought in Greece Died of a fever Numerous affairs with men and women ‘Mad bad and dangerous to know’

Question 38

Remember - context

Answer 38

VICTORIAN/REALISM Moved to more realistic literature Volunteered working with prostitutes

Question 39

The Ruined Maid & At an Inn - context

Answer 39

PRE-RAPHAELITES Married twice Influenced by romanticism Critical of Victorian realism

Question 40

La Belle Dame sans Merci - context

Answer 40

ROMANTIC II/GOTHIC Trained as a doctor Struggling poet

Question 41

Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae - context

Answer 41

Transition between romanticism and modernism Fell in love with an 11 year old Became an alcoholic