Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde
-Sir Thomas Wyatt
-Attempting to hunt the 'hynde' but it is unattainable
-Abandons the hunt as the speaker is aware that it is unachievable
-Obsession, Courtly Love, Position of women in society
-Rejection, Unattainable love
-Wealth and Status as a significant barrier to love
Sonnet 116
-Shakespeare
-Love should win the test of time and all other barriers
-What love is not- use of metaphor
-Time is the enemy to love
-Jay Gatsby thought his love for D would pass the test of time, pass any barriers, overcome challenges as his love was so intense.
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Who so list to hount I knowe where is an hynde
-Sir Thomas Wyatt
-Attempting to hunt the 'hynde' but it is unattainable
-Abandons the hunt as the speaker is aware that it is unachievable
-Obsession, Courtly Love, Position of women in society
-Rejection, Unattainable love
-Wealth and Status as a significant barrier to love
Sonnet 116
-Shakespeare
-Love should win the test of time and all other barriers
-What love is not- use of metaphor
-Time is the enemy to love
-Jay Gatsby thought his love for D would pass the test of time, pass any barriers, overcome challenges as his love was so intense.
The Flea
-John Donne
-Complex poem of seduction and argument to engage in pre-marital sex
-The flea represents/ metaphor for their love
-Selfish Love
-Societal pressures, expectations
-The Great Gatsby-the desperation in the hotel room
To His Coy Mistress
-Andrew Marvell
-Argument to persuade a women to lose her virginity
-Sets up a logic argument, time is catching up
-Dominant male
-Urgency
-Time
-Selfish love
The Scrutiny
-Richard Lovelace
-Satirical Poem
-Passive female does not participate
-Calling for sexual pleasure, sexual liberty
-Impossible nature of undying love - seeks other females to feel satisfied
-Passive speakers -Tom
-Pursuit of pleasure- Myrtle
A Song (Absent from thee)
-John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
-Tormented speaker, trying to understand loyalty and society
-Love asks too much
-Loyalty, sincerity, commitment
-Idol, spiritual, worshipping
Song (Ae fond kiss)
-Robert Burns
-Paradox
-Sincere expression, finial kiss before they part forever
-Semantic field of sadness
-Purity of love
-Innocence, admiration, naivety
- Nick's admiration of G
She Walks in Beauty
-Lord Byron
-Order and harmony
-Poem of contrast
-Admires a women in the distance
-Idolatry
-Spiritual, G elevates D
-Presentation of gender
-Status
-Love expectations too high
Remember
-Christina Rossetti
-Patriarchal sonnet
-Sincere and compassionate love
-Female position in society
-Tones of grief
-G sincere feelings for D, N love for G
-Time running out, inevitable
At an Inn
-Thomas Hardy
-Speaker wants hope again, pulled abruptly from him
-Catering staff looking into their relationship - society
-Social expectations
-Lack of progress
-Trapped in the past, faliure
-Time, hasn't allowed them to progress
-Barriers to love
-Unrequited love
La Belle Dame sans Merci. A Ballad
-John Keats
-Male perspective
-Explores the relationship between sex and cruelty
-Gatsby tries to capture something from the past
-Nick's strange relationship with love
-T married to D but still searching for more
-Past is perhaps glorified
-Infatuation
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae
-Ernest Dowson
-Focused on love from the past, fragility of the speaker's mind
-Love can't be fulfilled
-Not accepted by society
-Hopeless longing
-Cynara intruding thoughts
-Frantic yearning for D
-Obsessive love