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1
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what literary movement was shakespeare a part of?

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  • renaissance

lived 1564 - 1616

2
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any relevant context for the poem relating to religion, love and infidelity?

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  • Elizabeth I reigned (1558 - 1603) = protestant rule
  • marriage not for love, for money wealth status
  • marriage and love not considered compatible
  • courtly love. influenced attitudes to male infidelity
  • literary convention of love overcoming time
3
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different themes to gatsby

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  • Shakespeare contrasts true love and romantic love; Fitzgerald argues only motives for love is wealth and status
  • love for wealth is fickle (D doesnt come )
  • love is essential to our survival “whose worths unknowne”
4
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key quotes and methods

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  • “marriage of true mindes” clear allusion to traditional christan wedding ceremony
  • implicit rejection of the social construct of marriage
  • metaphor of equality/perfect balance
  • allusion to divine navigation, guidance. stable, steadfast despite weather
  • legal sense of language affirming logic of his argument
  • personification of time as the grim reaper. later removes personification, removing its power over love
5
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shared themes w gatsby

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  • nature of love as steadfast and unchanging when faced with time -> G
  • questions motives of humans regarding marriage
  • highlights human artificiality (marriage = status/money)
  • love is fickle (for beauty/for wealth)
6
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shared themes with other poems

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remember
- true love
garden of love
- critique of societal/ religious conventions

7
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any relevant context for Gatsby love, marriage and social change?

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  • marriage and love not considered compatible
  • marriage seen as restricting to a fast paced lifestyle (jazz age)
  • mass consumerism. wealth central to 1920s USA
8
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relevant methods and quotes from gatsby?

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  • conflict/juxtaposition of romantic ideas with modern 1920s society. allusion to keats’ nightingale: “its romantic, isn’t it, Tom?”
    • “shrill” telephone undermines poetic romanticism. love isnt viable in 1920s society
  • “hot struggles of the poor”, no equality in relationship
  • artificial imagery of G’s party
9
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significance of the form of the poem?

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  • shakespearian sonnet. starts by defining what love isn’t to emphasise to audience what love truly is
  • iambic pentameter. mimics heartbeat = love is essential for survival
10
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meaning of “rosie lips”

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  • alludes to courtly trope of Blazon

- mocks the artifice of beauty-based love