Poetry anthology context and themes

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Whoso list to hount

  • Petrarchan sonnet.

  • Rumoured ode to Anne Boleyn

  • Unattainability of love

  • The chase of love

  • Unrequited love

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Sonnet 116

  • Speculation regarding Shakespeare’s sexuality.

  • Economic marriages.

  • Idealised love

  • Unconditional love

  • Lasting love

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The Flea

  • Metaphysical poetry - based on logic>emotions.

  • Lust

  • Immoral desire

  • Seduction

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To His Coy Mistress

  • Metaphysical poetry - logic>emotions.

  • Memento Mori.

  • Seduction

  • Lust

  • Time

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The Scrutiny

  • Cavalier poetry - focus on sexual pleasure, selfish attitude.

  • Infidelity.

  • Lust.

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Absent from thee

  • Restoration period - freedom, self-indulgence, promiscuity.

  • Suffering.

  • Devotion.

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Ae Fond Kiss

  • Rumoured ode to Agnes McLehose who left the affair to reunite with her husbanmd.

  • Suffering.

  • Infidelity.

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The Ruined Maid

  • Critique on the moral decay of Victorian society.

  • Social mobility.

  • Corruption.

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Non Sum Qualis

  • Decadent movement - seeking pleasure.

  • Obsession.

  • Lost love.

  • Longin/yearning.