Vocab/People/Dates Flashcards
(36 cards)
Lyric Poetry
-A short snapshot: state of emotion, feeling, one time
-Unrequited love
-Rhyming and metrical and generally short
Narrative Poetry
A long story
Ex: Aeneid…”once upon a time”
Petrarch (14c)
-Italian scholar and poet who caused the lyric poetry uprise
-reflects themes of love, longing, and personal reflection
Sonnet
-Typically written in 14 lines
-Syllables alternate between stressed and unstressed
-Typically written in Iambic Pentameter
John Donne
-Most important lyric poet
-Known as the shapeshifter of poetry “Jack” or “Dr.”
-Jack: persona of youthful, witty poems about women/sex/love/profane…not Petrarchan
-Dr: Of the church, about God, being Christian, faith, poetic reflections on God, responsibilities about being a believer
John Milton
-Most important poet
-Associated with freedom of thought/speech/liberty
-distrustful of the institutional church, ally with Puritans
-Aspired to be England’s Dante
Sir Thomas Wyatt
-Discovers lyric poetry and brings it back
-father of the English sonnet
Enjambment
-Continuation of a sentence after a line break
-Creates a jerky feeling/no punctuation
1603
Union of the crowns
Death of Queen Elizabeth (stable reign)
James VI of Scotland takes the throne of England as James I
1611
-KJB, the King James version of the Bible
-Pivotal with religion and English culture
1649
Death of Charles 1 (beheaded)
1688
Glorious Revolution
William and Mary are the monarchs
Interregnum
11 years of no monarch because Charles is beheaded (1649-1660)
Carpe Diem
“Seize the day”
Renaissance
Circa 1476
Intellectual and artistic movement which caused a rise of english poetry and theatre
Printing press created: produced texts easily, preserves, copies, stabilizing a text
england
Humanism
An intellectual movement; influence of Renaissance ideals
Inspiration from classical texts and philosophies
Ex: milton’s questioning of free will and divine justice (Paradise Lost)
Shakespearean sonnet
3 quatrains and 1 couplet
Octet
8 lines in a poem (first part of a larger sonnet)
Introducing the problem, situation, argument (intro)
Volta in between
Sestet
Follows the octet as the final six lines
Resolves or responds to the issue presented in the octet (resolution)
Quatrain
Four lines which typically rhyme
Different rhyming patterns
ABAB, AABB, ABBA
Couplet
Tight little stanzas linked by sound and content
Two lines, typically rhyming, same meter
Iamb
ta-TUM stress pattern
Ex: except; the deer; “allow” or “behold”
First unstressed then stressed syllable
Trochee
TUM-ta
First stressed (loud) syllable then second is unstressed (soft or weak)
Ex: asking; lost it
Tetrameter
A line that has four metrical feet
da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM (four iambs)
Ex: “The course of true love never did run smooth”
