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Donne - FORM / STRUCTURE / CONTEXT / CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS

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A-Level English Literature (POETRY) Quiz am Donne - FORM / STRUCTURE / CONTEXT / CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS, erstellt von Bethany Fieldhouse am 05/06/2016.
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Zusammenfassung der Ressource

Frage 1

Frage
FORM - Irregular iambic pentameter implies jarring dissonance in the thoughts of the speaker - INFERIORITY COMPLEX
Antworten
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart
  • Thou Hast Made Me
  • The Flea
  • Song

Frage 2

Frage
CRITICAL INTERPRETATION - "Donne regards his soul as female" (John Carey), his own soul is a female trapped in an unhappy marriage, needs another (God) to overwhelm her and take her away
Antworten
  • Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart
  • Hymn to God The Father
  • The Relic

Frage 3

Frage
Represents the peak of Donne's conflict between secular and religious life, and his efforts to reconcile his new found sacred love with the more familiar, earthly love.
Antworten
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart
  • Hymn to God The Father

Frage 4

Frage
Constant friction between the sacred ("Three-person'd God") and the profane ("ravish", "chaste")
Antworten
  • Batter My Heart
  • Thou Hast Made Me
  • Holy Sonnet X
  • Hymn to God The Father

Frage 5

Frage
Original version had no comma in first line - changes entire meaning of poem
Antworten
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud
  • The Flea
  • Song
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Frage 6

Frage
Uses the Renaissance idea of sleep as death's image
Antworten
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud
  • The Flea
  • The Relic
  • Hymn to God The Father

Frage 7

Frage
"Donne's constant use of the belittling and ridiculing tone throughout the poem is indicative of his defiant stance towards death" - Fraser Small
Antworten
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud
  • The Relic
  • Hymn to God The Father
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

Frage 8

Frage
"Shows anxiety about the permanence of human relationships" - John Carey
Antworten
  • Song
  • The Flea
  • The Relic
  • Hymn to God The Father

Frage 9

Frage
Use of spondaic detrameter
Antworten
  • Song
  • Hymn to God The Father
  • The Flea
  • The Relic

Frage 10

Frage
Use of rhyming triplet, giving the poem a lilting, sing-song quality - goes with the title.
Antworten
  • The Relic
  • Hymn to God the Father
  • Song
  • The Flea

Frage 11

Frage
Subverted use of adunata to represent the impossibility of finding a faithful woman
Antworten
  • The Flea
  • The Relic
  • The Sun Rising
  • Song

Frage 12

Frage
Alternative interpretation - Donne is mocking Petrarchan poetry, rather than woman
Antworten
  • The Flea
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • Song

Frage 13

Frage
"Life from crown to sole" - Coleridge
Antworten
  • Song
  • The Flea
  • Batter My Heart
  • Death Be Not Proud

Frage 14

Frage
Three equally weighted stanzas imply a sense of certainty
Antworten
  • Song
  • Hymn to God The Father
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising

Frage 15

Frage
Opposition between the speaker's disengaged jaded attitude, and varying line lengths which indicate passion and emotion
Antworten
  • Song
  • The Flea
  • The Good Morrow
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Frage 16

Frage
Structure - Stanza 1: Whimsical and contemplative Stanza 2: Becomes more absurd, pace quickens Stanza 3: Slowing, reversal of argument
Antworten
  • The Flea
  • Song
  • Thou Hast Made Me
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud

Frage 17

Frage
Alludes to the Elizabethan concept of blood being exchanged during sex
Antworten
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Flea
  • Song
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

Frage 18

Frage
Semantic field of religion is emphasised as it seems out of place in a highly profane poem - could be seen as blasphemous, or as elevating the poem to seriousness
Antworten
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart
  • The Flea
  • The Relic

Frage 19

Frage
Use of opposites such as: innocence/guilt, chastity/sexuality, sex/religion
Antworten
  • Song
  • The Relic
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Flea

Frage 20

Frage
"About the most merely disgusting poem in our language" - Arthur Quiller-Couch
Antworten
  • Song
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart
  • The Flea
  • Hymn to God The Father

Frage 21

Frage
Use of geographic semantic field - AO4: Renaissance voyages and exploration of the world (macro) and inner exploration of love and the self (micro).
Antworten
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Flea
  • The Relic

Frage 22

Frage
Alludes to the cordiform map to link their love and the universe
Antworten
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Flea
  • The Good Morrow
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Frage 23

Frage
"The two lovers create a whole and one is incomplete without the other" - Thomas N Corns
Antworten
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Flea
  • The Relic

Frage 24

Frage
An AUBADE and CELEBRATION
Antworten
  • The Good Morrow
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • The Flea
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud

Frage 25

Frage
Restrained and controlled Spenserian stanzas in iambic pentameter
Antworten
  • Song
  • The Good Morrow
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Frage 26

Frage
Each stanza ends on an Alexandrine (6 iambic feet) - suggests his lover has brought his stability
Antworten
  • The Relic
  • The Flea
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Good Morrow

Frage 27

Frage
Structure - First experience of love is childish, fleeting, and unstable Second experience of love is richer, more spiritual
Antworten
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Flea
  • The Sun Rising
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Frage 28

Frage
Alludes to the Age of Discovery - celebrating a new beginning (new day/new world)
Antworten
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Relic
  • Hymn to God The Father

Frage 29

Frage
One of Donne's earliest poems
Antworten
  • The Relic
  • The Good Morrow
  • Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • The Sun Rising

Frage 30

Frage
Regular rhyme scheme - adds to underlying tone of wry wit/irony Irregular line length
Antworten
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Relic
  • The Sun Rising
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Frage 31

Frage
Similar to a Madrigal
Antworten
  • The Good Morrow
  • Hymn to God the Father
  • The Relic
  • The Sun Rising

Frage 32

Frage
Use of inclusive plural pronouns makes the poem more loving and inclusive than, for example, The Flea
Antworten
  • The Relic
  • Hymn to God The Father
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising

Frage 33

Frage
"Fired by [Donne's] ambivalence about Catholicism" - Carol Rumen
Antworten
  • The Relic
  • Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart
  • The Flea

Frage 34

Frage
Donne talks about judgement day "with no awesome solemnity" - James Winny
Antworten
  • The Relic
  • The Flea
  • Hymn to God The Father
  • Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart

Frage 35

Frage
Assumes a geocentric view of the world (sun orbits earth), rather an a heliocentric view (planets orbit sun), which had been developed around 20 years before Donne started writing
Antworten
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Relic
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud

Frage 36

Frage
The opening line both utilises and challenges the aubade form
Antworten
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Relic
  • The Flea

Frage 37

Frage
Form - cross between a Shakespearean and Spenserian Sonnet - unique, or confused?
Antworten
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Flea
  • Hymn to God The Father

Frage 38

Frage
Can be read as a glorious love poem, but with darker undertones of objectification and male possessiveness - the woman is reduced to an erotically sexualised acquisition.
Antworten
  • The Flea
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart

Frage 39

Frage
"All consuming super reality" - Richard Jacobs
Antworten
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

Frage 40

Frage
Use of a microcosmic conceit - their love represents the universe
Antworten
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Flea
  • The Relic

Frage 41

Frage
Alludes to Donne's apostasy and his erotic poetry
Antworten
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • Hymn to God the Father
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

Frage 42

Frage
Only poem Donne had set to music and sung at St Paul's Cathedral
Antworten
  • HS I
  • HS XIV
  • HS X
  • Hymn to God The Father

Frage 43

Frage
Structure - Three controlled sestets - suggests he is in control of his thoughts - counteracts doubt about his divine worth
Antworten
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • Hymn to God the Father
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

Frage 44

Frage
Exploration of the via affirmative and via negativa
Antworten
  • Thou Hast Made Me
  • Hymn to God the Father
  • Song
  • The Good Morrow

Frage 45

Frage
Alludes to the Calvinist belief of pre-destination
Antworten
  • Hymn to God The Father
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Relic
  • Song

Frage 46

Frage
Opening of the poem takes an accusatory tone - unusual for the Dean of St Paul's. Reflects Donne's complicated relationship with faith and religion
Antworten
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud
  • Hymn to God the Father

Frage 47

Frage
Octave - imagery associated with moving backwards Sestet - imagery associated with moving upwards Some critics argue this gives the poem a cross-like structure
Antworten
  • HS I
  • HS XIV
  • HS X
  • Song

Frage 48

Frage
Use of the chiastic form (A B B1 A1) reinforces the panicked two-way motion
Antworten
  • Song
  • The Flea
  • Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • Holy Sonnet X: Death Be Not Proud

Frage 49

Frage
Use of rhyming couplet - Shakespearian ending
Antworten
  • Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • Song
  • The Flea
  • Hymn to God The Father
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