Quizlet Blue Book Test 1 - Works

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  1. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning: Renaissance; Donne; Going off on a journey and doesn't want wife to be sad as their love will always be there - they will be connected (metaphors: Gold doesn't break down and Compass)
  2. Beowulf: Anglo-Saxon; Ezra Pound; wyrd = fate; Epic Hero is Beolwulf (superior physical strenth, supremely ethical, glorified by the people he/she saves);
  3. Edward, Edward: Middle Ages; Edward has just killed his father and he is going to be leaving his family and he seems to feel little remorse; (sensational, sordid, or tragic subject, omission of detail, refrain, question/ answer format, slang)
  4. Get Up and Bar the Door: Middle Ages; First one to speak must get up and bar the door, strangers come; (omission of detail, refrain, somewhat of a question/answer, slang, rythm)
  5. Lord Randall: Middle Ages; Lord Randall has been posioned by his love; (sensational sordid or tragic subject, omission of detail, refrain, question/answer format, slang, Rhythm ABCB)
  6. Macbeth: Renaissance; Shakespeare; Tragedy, Tragic hero: Lust of Power
  7. Meditation 17: Renaissance: Donne: Speaker is sick (metaphors: we all experience the same things, everything we do affects many people, you can't buy into heaven), could be used as church/sermon, funeral
  8. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Middle Ages; John Gardner; Sir Gawain has challenge with Green Knight, wears sash gives back to Green Knight; Romance (Hero, Evil Enemy, Quest, Test of Hero, Supernatural Events, Good vs. Evil, Female Figures)
  9. Sonnet 116: Renaissance; Shakespeare; Marriage - immortal love
  10. Sonnet 130: Renaissance; Shakespeare; woman description
  11. Sonnet 29: Renaissance; Shakespeare; Self pity (tone: scornful, mood: emotionally drained; turn - line 8
  12. Sonnet 30: Renaissance; Spenser; Fire on Ice; His love is like fire, but she just gets colder
  13. Sonnet 73: Renaissance; Shakespeare; Old age (tone: depressing - turn: 12-13)
  14. Sonnet 75: Renaissance; Spenser Ocean Waves; We will always have our love, immortality
  15. The Fowle Duessa: Renaissance; Spenser; Internal Beauty > Physical Buauty - old beauty fades, internal doesn't
  16. The Nymph's reply to the Shepherd: Renaissance: Sir Walter Raleigh; Pastoral Poets; I just want your love
  17. The Pardoner's Tale: Middle Ages: Geoffrey Chaucer Cantebury Tales - gluttony, drunkeness, gambling, and swearing are bad;
  18. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love: Renaissance: Christopher Marlowe; Pastoral Poets: I will give you all these objects if you will just come and live with me
  19. The Prologue: Middle Ages; Geoffrey Chaucer; Cantebury tales, introduces the characters, characterizes them;
  20. The Seafarer: Anglo-Saxon; Burton Raffel; The speaker would rather stay out in the dangerous ocean than live on the boring land; Deals with much Pagan vs. Christian beliefs
  21. To His Coy Mistress: Renaissance: Andrew Marvell: Time passes us by so quickly and we can't stop it
  22. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time: Renaissance: Robert Herrick; Pastoral Poets; We waste too much time as young people
  23. Whoso List to Hunt: Renaissance; Sir Thomas Wyatt; Wyatt is chasing Anne Boylen but King Henry is getting her