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1
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What literary movement did Lovelace belong to?

A

Cavalier/ Late English Renaissance

2
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What literary concept is The Scrutiny a rejection of?

A

Courtly love tradition

3
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What major war in English history occured in Lovelace’s lifetime

A

The English Civil War

4
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What style of poetry does Lovelace most commonly write?

A

Carpe Diem Poetry

Seize the day

5
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Which side of the civil war was Lovelace on?

A

The Cavalier/ Royalists (Supporting the king, the losing side)

6
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Why does Lovelace write Carpe Diem poetry?

A

He was supporting the losing side of the war. The royalists were a dying breed

7
Q

What values in particular do the cavaliers not rate at all?

A

Morality
Work
Fidelity

8
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Who does The Scrutiny focus on and how does Lovelace achieve this?

A

Male experience of a relationship

Masculine rhymes, references to hair in order to diminish the value of women

9
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How does Lovelace convey a lack of strong emotion?

A

Impersonal Language
Carpe Diem language
Diminuative language
Conditionals

10
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How does Lovelace subvert courtly convention?

A

Utilises language of the Chivalric Code as a persuasive device

11
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What were the main royalist beliefs?

A

Traditional hierarchy and old power, the divine right of kings

12
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Quotes that diminish the value of women (x2)

A

“Fond impossibility”

“Brown hair”

13
Q

Quotes which characterise the speakers exploits as a quest (x2)

A

“Skillful mineralist”

“I laden will return to thee”

14
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Quotes about the speakers sexual appetite (x2)

A

“loved my round”

“sated with variety”

15
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Quotes reflecting the carpe diem attitude (x4)

A

“why should I swear I am forsworn”
“Lady ‘tis already morn”
“I must all other beauties wrong and rob you of a new embrace”
“A tedious 12 hours’ space”

16
Q

What does hair symbolise in The Scrutiny?

A

The diminishing of women

Sexuality (Something only a lover gets to see down)

17
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What is the tone of The Scrutiny?

A

Hyper-masculine, overconfident,

superficial

18
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What are the major emotions conveyed in The Scrutiny?

A

Obligation,
Indignance,
Conditional lust/ past lust

19
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What expectation of women is presented in The Scrutiny?

A

Women are expected to wait patiently for a man to choose them
Nagging presence- a foil to the man’s happiness

20
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Over arching interpretations of The Scrutiny

A

Ode to a dying way of life,
Rallying cry to sieze the day,
Emotionless engagement in lust- does love exist?
Rejection of courtly love

21
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What is the plot of The Scrutiny?

A

The speaker rebuffing the protest of a woman with whom he has had an encounter. He argues that nothing lasts forever and that he must see all of his alternatives before he can think of choosing her as the best.

22
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Critical quotation about masculinity in Lovelace’s poetry

A

“Lovelace’s poetry conveys a smug male assurance in dallying with love and the emotions of women, but through them there echoes the alternative, but also excessively masculine, martial urgency of the 1640s”

23
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Critical quotation about Lovelace’s morality in relation to courtly manner

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“(He) exhibits a gentlemanly lightness of touch and the equality of lax morality typical of Cavalier poetry. His politic (sexual as well as national) render him representative of the easy, confident, flirtatious, essentially unearnest world of courtly manner”