ENGL1003 - Midterm Review (#3)

Who is often silent in Petrarchan sonnets?

Women

How does Roth write the traditional male role in her prose fiction ‘Pamphilia to Amphilanthus’?

Influenced by their relatives previous work, demonstrates the power of female desire and the brutality of the opposite sex through tortures of jealousy and deception. Also implements parts of a love sonnet to capture inner turmoil of the writer.

What is the confliction in ‘Pamphilia to Amphilanthus’?

Between reason and passion. Depicts chaotic passion to wanting to learn about oneself and discover the freedom between those areas.

Why does Venus wish to overpower Pamphilia with passion?

To inject lack of reason and wants to win over their wisdom over their pursuit of love.

What does Roth’s Sonnet 1 reflect, according to Bacon?

Of Love

In Roth’s Sonnet 6, what is her struggle?

Between love and faith. Wishes to rid of the heart so they can gain parts of autonomy back and remove the inner turmoil from themselves, aka, Venus.

What primary type of sonnet characteristic is present in Roth’s Sonnet 6?

Dissidio

What do these Sonnets explore in Roth’s text?

The exploration of how one can be present in love, while still maintaining a level of wisdom.

How are Pamphilia’s inner turmoil’s paradoxical?

While they are desperate to remove themselves from the tortured archetype, they dig deeper into the hole by evaluating her relationship between passion and rationality.

Ecstasy

Altered state of consciousness. Holds a lack of awareness of objects around them. Also is referred to as the removal from the human body and experiencing a more spiritual state.

George Herbert

A prominent poet that published a singular piece named “The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations”. Associated with devotional lyric and surveillance of the church’s architecture. Talks about the discourse of affliction and suffering.

What is the best school?

Adversity. The resilience of difficulties. Allows to correct errors and test virtues to prevent future sin and struggle with faith through the humoral system.

How is having no affliction a sign of weakness?

It is a tell-tale sign that the humors are never tested. If one lacks struggle, then the virtues and faiths of one aren’t ever put on the pedestal and proven.

Easter Wings

Written by George Herbert. An example of visual/concrete poetry that explores the discourse of affliction and visualizes the actual poem with physical attributes of the poem’s name.

Why does affliction demand self-reflection?

Invites individuals to confront morals through both spiritual and physical vulnerabilities in order to correct themselves or prove to themselves strong in prayer. By engaging in spiritual inventory and correction, it assists in growth through struggle.

The Altar

Written by George Herbert. Constructs a visual image of the letter ‘I’ and demonstrates self-critical dialogue- sharing their own struggles in a devotional manner. About the difficulties of self-transformation.

What is the thing that constructs the Altar?

The self.

What is the paradox in the Altar?

The demonstration of how hearts must contrite, break, or soften in order to receive God. Only does it construct when the heart fully breaks into affliction.

John Milton

Considered the most important poet of the seventeenth century. Infamous and famous due to political views and demonstrated defenses to regicide- the action of killing a king. A polesmasist.

Polemasist

An individual that engages in controversial debate.

What are some things to know about Milton?

Not a Christian humanist, but a radical, political humanist- gave in to self-fashion and held a conscious stance as an author, and advocated for liberty of conscience/speech.

Double Tyranny

The idea where a person is subjected to both external and internal stems. A concept that glazes over the importance of self-governance through reasoning, not blind obedience to authority.

The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

Written by John Milton. Argues that people hold the right to rise against tyranny and blames men for foolishly following authority without reason but for license. States that there are natural rights, that including freedom, and that we are free to choose.

What does the term “reason is but choosing” mean?

Reciprocates the idea that the choice of reasoning is subjective to a person’s morals and values of a given circumstance. Suggests that our choices are influenced by our perspective, and that we must choose for ourselves in order to compel to goodness.

Ode

A long lyric poem that is elevated in style and imitates the Pindar form. A humanist form that takes classical knowledge and remolds conventions with contemporary terminology. A study of contradiction and antithesis.

Epic

A long poem that derives from ancient tradition. Narrates heroic figures or a history that are through deeds of some kind. Displays to long compositions and series over achievements and events.

Aeropagitica

Written by John Milton. Concerns with the relationship between liberty, tyranny, poetic censorship and free speech. Defends consciousness and lays out arguments such as the pleasure and purposes of freely reading, and censorship correlated with dictatorship.

What is Milton’s central argument in Aeropagitica?

If knowledge and discovery are to flourish, then pre-press censorship should not exist. Conveys the importance of learning.