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Donne - FORM / STRUCTURE / CONTEXT / CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS

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A-Level (POETRY) English Literature Test sobre Donne - FORM / STRUCTURE / CONTEXT / CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS, creado por Bethany Fieldhouse el 05/06/2016.
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Resumen del Recurso

Pregunta 1

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

Pregunta 2

Pregunta
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
Respuesta
  • Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart
  • Hymn to God The Father
  • The Relic

Pregunta 3

Pregunta
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.
Respuesta
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart
  • Hymn to God The Father

Pregunta 4

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

Pregunta 5

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

Pregunta 6

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

Pregunta 7

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

Pregunta 8

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

Pregunta 9

Pregunta
Use of spondaic detrameter
Respuesta
  • Song
  • Hymn to God The Father
  • The Flea
  • The Relic

Pregunta 10

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

Pregunta 11

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

Pregunta 12

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

Pregunta 13

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

Pregunta 14

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

Pregunta 15

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

Pregunta 16

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

Pregunta 17

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

Pregunta 18

Pregunta
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
Respuesta
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart
  • The Flea
  • The Relic

Pregunta 19

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

Pregunta 20

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

Pregunta 21

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

Pregunta 22

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

Pregunta 23

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

Pregunta 24

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

Pregunta 25

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

Pregunta 26

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

Pregunta 27

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

Pregunta 28

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

Pregunta 29

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

Pregunta 30

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

Pregunta 31

Pregunta
Similar to a Madrigal
Respuesta
  • The Good Morrow
  • Hymn to God the Father
  • The Relic
  • The Sun Rising

Pregunta 32

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

Pregunta 33

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

Pregunta 34

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

Pregunta 35

Pregunta
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
Respuesta
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Relic
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud

Pregunta 36

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

Pregunta 37

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

Pregunta 38

Pregunta
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.
Respuesta
  • The Flea
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart

Pregunta 39

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

Pregunta 40

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

Pregunta 41

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

Pregunta 42

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

Pregunta 43

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

Pregunta 44

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

Pregunta 45

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

Pregunta 46

Pregunta
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
Respuesta
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud
  • Hymn to God the Father

Pregunta 47

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

Pregunta 48

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

Pregunta 49

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