Abeka English Literature Test 4

Donne

Best-known of the Metaphysical poets

Bunyan

The greatest prose writer of the age

Peace

Poem that addresses God

Couplet

A complete thought is expressed in two rhyming lines

Metaphysical conceit

Points out an unusual parallel between highly dissimilar elements

Puritans

Believed that Christians should love a pure and holy life

Cavalier poets

Emphasized the pleasures of this world and wrote love songs to or about women

Metaphysical poets

Interested in the things of the mind, soul, and eternity

Pilgrims progress

England's greatest allegory

In Defense of Books

Warning concerning restriction of books

Now

The present is more important than past or future

Meditation XVII

The bell tolls for all of us

To Lucasta, Going to the Wars

honor drives him from his love to the battlefield

The constant lover

a man's love for three days

To Athea, from Prison

freedom of the soul and spirit

The Collar

Thoughts of moving from rebellion to subjection

On His Having Arrived at the Age of Twenty-Three

time as the subtle thief of youth

The Pulley

man's need for rest

The Anniversary

the eternal love of the married couple

An Epitaph

husband and wife who lived and died together

Lovelace

Author of "Stone walls do not a prison make,

Nor iron bars a cage;"

Herrick

Author of "Gather ye rosebuds while he may,

Old Time is still a-flying:"

Donne

Author of "For thee, thou needst no such deceit,

For thou thy self art thine own bait;"

Wither

Author of "Shall I wasting in despair

Die because a woman's fair?"

Traherne

Author of "The world resembled his eternity,

In which my soul did walk;

And everything that I did see

Did with me talk."

Essay

John Milton wrote Paradise Lost with the theme, established in the quotation, of justifying the ways of Good to men. Students should discuss the role of Satan in the fall of man, Adam's and Eve's temptation, and the consequences of their sin as described in the poem.