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Donne - FORM / STRUCTURE / CONTEXT / CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS

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A-Level English Literature (POETRY) Quiz sobre Donne - FORM / STRUCTURE / CONTEXT / CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS, criado por Bethany Fieldhouse em 05-06-2016.
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Questão 1

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

Questão 2

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

Questão 3

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

Questão 4

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

Questão 5

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

Questão 6

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

Questão 7

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

Questão 8

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

Questão 9

Questão
Use of spondaic detrameter
Responda
  • Song
  • Hymn to God The Father
  • The Flea
  • The Relic

Questão 10

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

Questão 11

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

Questão 12

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

Questão 13

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

Questão 14

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

Questão 15

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

Questão 16

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

Questão 17

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

Questão 18

Questão
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
Responda
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart
  • The Flea
  • The Relic

Questão 19

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

Questão 20

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

Questão 21

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

Questão 22

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

Questão 23

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

Questão 24

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

Questão 25

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

Questão 26

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

Questão 27

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

Questão 28

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

Questão 29

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

Questão 30

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

Questão 31

Questão
Similar to a Madrigal
Responda
  • The Good Morrow
  • Hymn to God the Father
  • The Relic
  • The Sun Rising

Questão 32

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

Questão 33

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

Questão 34

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

Questão 35

Questão
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
Responda
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Relic
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud

Questão 36

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

Questão 37

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

Questão 38

Questão
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.
Responda
  • The Flea
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart

Questão 39

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

Questão 40

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

Questão 41

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

Questão 42

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

Questão 43

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

Questão 44

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

Questão 45

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

Questão 46

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

Questão 47

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

Questão 48

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

Questão 49

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

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