Miss Houk English Test Unit 4 Age of the Puritans

What did the Cavalier poets call themselves?

"Tribe of Ben"

What did the Cavalier poets emphasize in their works?

Pleasures of this world

Who were the Cavalier poets?

Lovelace, Suckling, Herrick, Wither, and Waller

Who wrote the greatest epic(Paradise Lost)?

John Milton

Who wrote the greatest allegory(Pilgrims Progress)?

John Bunyan

Who wrote nearly 1300 poems which show the most variety and greatest lyrical quality of all the Cavalier poets

Robert Herrick

Who was imprisoned by the Puritans?

Richard Lovelace

What were the Metaphysical poets interested in writing?

Things of the mind, soul, and eternity

What did the Metaphysical poets emphasize in their writings?

complexities and

contradictions of life

Who were the Metaphysical poets?

Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne

Who was the first and greatest of the Metaphysical poets? He was also one of the most influential preachers in history

John Donne

Who was one of the most important of the Metaphysical poets? He also was known for his saintly life and intense devotion to God; he would shape some of his poems into altars, a cross, or wings

George Herbert

Who ranks as one of the greatest English poets? He also wrote

England's greatest pastoral elegy ("Lycidas") in memory of a classmate who drowned after he became blind he wrote his greatest works, which include Paradise Lost

John Milton

Who was a friend and assistant to John Milton? He also wrote "On

Paradise Lost," the preface to Milton's second edition of Paradise Lost

Andrew Marvell

Metaphysical conceit

points out an unusual parallel between

highly dissimilar elements; often involves comparing spiritual qualities to physical objects

Paradox

a truth expressed in the form of an apparent

contradiction

Cuplet

a complete thought expressed in two rhyming lines

Pun

a figure of speech that plays with words that have

multiple meanings, or that plays with words that sound similar but mean different things.

Allegory

a narrative in which the characters, places, and other

items are symbols

The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet

By George Wither

Resolved not to base his happiness upon the love of a woman

His Prayer for Absolution

By Robert Herrick

the author asks for God's blessing on his work

No Coming to God without Christ

By Robert Herrick

emphasizes the importance of Christ's work to the sinner finished

To Althea, from Prison

By Richard Lovelace

author explains liberty; was arrested for supporting the monarchy. He wrote this poem in jail, one of his finest lyrics.

To Lucasta, Going to Wars

By Richard Lovelace

Expression of adventure and devotion to duty. This poem is one of 27

poems addressed to "Lucasta" (lux casta, "chaste light"). While past scholars believed that these were poems were written to Lucy Sacherverel, to whom Lovelace was engaged, most modern critics believe Lucasta was just another fictional name Lovelace made up to identify qualities he wanted to portray in his poetry.

The Bait

By John Donne

Written in response to Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"; there is a tone of mockery toward Marlowe's poem in this response

A Hymn to God the Father

By John Donne

author asks for God's

forgiveness for repeated sin over which he is trying to gain victory; uses several puns within the poem

Renunciation

By John Donne

Speaker uses many images of time and distance to express his approaching death

Meditation XVII

By John Donne

author gives thoughts on our mortality; this was written during a serious illness that left him bedridden for many months; Ernest Hemingway borrowed one of Donne's phrases for the title of his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls.

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

By John Donne

Expression of a man's eternal love toward his life

Bitter Sweet

By George Herbert

A reflection of the dual nature of God in bringing both sorrow and joy and on man who both praises and complains

Love

By George Herbert

A beautiful picture of man responding to Gods grace given through Jesus Christ

The Pulley

By George Herbert

gives the reason why God designed man to need rest

Discipline

By George Herbert

request of God to lovingly please God punish because the man wants to please God

The Collar

By George Herbert

Traces the authors thoughts as he moves from rebellion to submission

Friends Departed

By Henry Vaughan

" They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here"

Wonder

By Thomas Traherne

Shows an idyllic

reflection on spiritual childhood When Thomas Traherne's manuscripts were first discovered, they were falsely believed to be Henry Vaughan's poems for a few years. After a few years of investigation, Traherne's writings were published in 1903 under a volume called Centuries of Meditation.

An Epitaph

By Richard Crashaw

Death cannot sever those who believe and are in Heaven. By the way Crashaw never married

Now

By Bishop Thomas Ken

Time is fleeting one cannot control the past, the future is unsure and the present goes quickly. Parts of this could be an illusion to to Dr Faustus

On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty Three

By John Milton

Time is the subtle thief of youth; Milton uses the Italian sonnet in this work

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

By John Milton

Author memorializes the Waldensians, who were massacred in Piedmont for refusing to become Catholic

In Defense of Books

By John Milton

Emphasizes the great influence of books and why we should be careful to preserve them

Paradise Lost

By John Milton

An account of the fall of man to "justify the ways of God to man..."

On Paradise Lost

By Andrew Marvel

Expresses the importance of Milton's work

"Shall I wasting in despair die because a woman's fair?"

The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet, George Wither

Forgive me, God, and blot each line Out of my book, that is not thine"

His Prayer for Absolution

"Good and great God! How should I fear To come to Thee, if Christ not there!"

Robert Herrick

"Stone walls do but a prison make not iron bars a cage."

Richard Lovelace

"No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, and part of the main. "

John Donne

"For whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee

Meditation XVII

"Then let wrath remove love will do the deed for with love stony hearts will bleed"

George Herbert

"Methoughts I heard one calling, Child: and I reply'd, My Lord"

The Collar

"Now of which you took no

care is turned never and despair!"

Now, Thomas Ken

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered sitars, whose bones lie scattered in the Alpine mountains cold."

John Milton, Waldensian Massacre in Piedmont

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

Paradise Lost

"Though all by me is lost such favor I unworthy and voutsafed by me the promised seed shall restore"

Eve, Paradise Lost