AP Litty final

The passionate Shepard to his love

• romantic and idealized celebration of natural life

• speaker asks his love to come live with him

• descrives experiiences they could have if they lived together

• if she thinks these things sound good she should join him in life

The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd

• tells him what he wants for them wont work

• explains why it wouldn’t work

• she is scared

• she says everything he wants is materialistic and will die soon

Pastoral Poetry style

• celebrates the pleasures of simple life in the country

• contrasts to urban/ city life

• carefree, country existence

• often written by sophisticated artists

• allows urban readers to imagine what a free and uncontrolled life would be like

Carpe Diem Poetry

• sieze the day

• time is fleeting so act decisevly and enjoy life

• life ends so one must act

To the Virgins to Make Much of Time

• time is fleeting

• make the best of the youth you have

• experiences are better when you’re young

• uses kennings

To his coy mistress

• time on earth is short

• trys to convince his love to have sex with him

• life is too short not to have SEX

• uses alliteration, personification, metaphor, and allusions

Metaphysical Poetry

• deals wiith philisophical, abstract, and highly theoretical topics

• style involved irregular rhythms and unusual, stertiling figurative language

• less formal

• love and physical attraction between men and women

• death and shortness of life

• individuals relationship with God

• argument, conceits (extended metaphors), language, and unconventual forms

Holy Sonnet 10: Death be not Proud

• metaphyisical tone, but sonnet style

• comparison between death and concepts/ objects

• metaphysical conciets

• those who death thinks it hills arent dead

• death is merely and short sleep

• dead go into eternal life and death itself will die

Meditation 17

• all of mankind is created by God

• God is involved in everything

• anyone who has a religious connection to God

• heaven is rewered

• poem brings people comfort to death by knowing of afterlife

• compares death to connect to God, physical, infinite

Sonnet 18

shall I compare thee to a summers day

• speaker says beloved is different from a summers day because her beauty will last forever/ never die

• uses personification and exaggeration

• tone- sentimental, passionate, intamate

sonnet 73

• time is fading

• speaker descrives himself and aging

• life is finite

• speaker tells young man that his love must be strengthened by knowing speaker will soon die

• uses metaphor, imagery, and nature

• tone- somber and reflecting

sonnet 116

• let me not to the marrige of true minds

• speaker attempts to define love

• defines love as perfect, unchanging, even through changes in partner, love is not suseptible to time

• uses metaphors, imagery

• tone- tenderness, devotion

sonnet 130

my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun

• sonnet compares mistress’s features to other things (none oof which are pretty)

• couplet says that their love is rare and valuble because she has a good personality

• uses imagery, metaphors

• tone- displeased

sonnet 57

bring your slave what should i do nut tend

• speakers only reason for existince is to serve her love/ her purpose

• thinks nothing bad about him no matter what

• speaker just wants opponent to be happy

• uses metaphor and hyperbole

• tone- desperate and devoted

connection to othello

• desdemonda has a blind love for othello

• even when othello foes bad things she still loves him

• he tries to kill her and she proclaims her love