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Sir Thomas Wyatt (love and cavalier)

Sonnet 30

Spenser (love and cavalier)

Sonnet 75

Spenser (love and cavalier)

Sonnet 116

Shakespeare (love and cavalier)

A valedictorian: forbidding mourning

donne (love and cavalier)

Holy Sonnet 6/death be not proud

donne (metaphysical)

To his coy mistress

marvell (metaphysical)

To the Virgins to make much of time

herrick (pastoral/carpe diem)

the passionate shepard to his love

marlowe (pastoral/carpe diem)

the nymph's reply to the shepard

raleigh (pastoral/carpe diem)

Spenserian sonnet rhyme scheme

abab bcbc cdcd ee

Spenserian sonnet structure

3 quatrains (4 line stanzas) and a couplet

Petrarchan sonnet rhyme scheme

abba abba cde cde

Petrarchan sonnet structure

8 lines (octave) and 6 lines (sestet)

metaphysical poetry characteristics

highly intellectualized, use strange imagery, frequent paradoxes and extremely complicated thought.

translation of metaphysical

"meta" = after, after the physical

metaphysical common questions

Does God exist?

Is there a difference between the way things appear to us and the way they really are? Essentially, what is the difference between reality and perception?

Is everything that happens already predetermined? If so, then is free choice non-existent?

Is consciousness limited to the brain?

topics of pastoral poetry

love and seduction; the value of poetry; death and mourning; the corruption of the city or court vs. the "purity" of idealized country life; politics (generally treated satirically: the "shepherds" critique society or easily identifiable political figures

eclogue

a dialogue between two shepherds