LITerature

1. “To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick 2. 17^th century poem 3. 4 stanzas, 4 lines in a verse, Folk/Ballad Diction, didactic 4. The speaker wants the reader to seize the day and live life to its fullest 5. Carpe Diem, passage of time, naturalistic imagery, rigid structure, rhyme

1. “Sonnet 29” by William Shakespeare 2. Renaissance poem 3. Shakespearian sonnet, ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme, melancholy tone 4. The speaker shows pain at his isolation and the world’s view of outcasts 5. Vulnerability, love, depression, sonnet form, rigid structure

1. “Sonnet 110” by William Shakespeare 2. Renaissance poem 3. Shakespearian sonnet, ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme, confident tone 4. The poet admits his wrongdoing and returns to the fair lord after being unfaithful 5. The changes of time, Platonic love, selfishness, sonnet form, rigid structure

1. “Whoso List to Hunt” by Sir Thomas Wyatt 2. Renaissance poem 3. Sonnet form, ABBACDDCEFFEGG rhyme scheme, renouncing tone, use of Italian or Latin 4. Wyatt expresses the sorrow he feels in having to renounce Ann Boleyn 5. Unrequited love, courtly love, marriage, rigid structure

1. “On My First Sonne” by Ben Jonson 2. Renaissance poem 3. 12 lines, 6 couplets, AABBCCDDEEFF rhyme scheme, loss, memory, elegy 4. Jonson attempts to impart meaning to the death of his first-born son 5. Death, father-son relationship, mourning, elegy, couplets, rigid structure, clear meaning

1. “Sonnet 73” by William Shakespeare 2. Renaissance poem 3. Shakespearian sonnet, ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme, pensive and somber, metaphoric 4. Shakespeare questions how long he has left to live and expresses the loss of youth 5. Realization of loss Old age, passage of time, death, rigid structure, sonnet form

1. “The Fowle Duessa” by Edmund Spenser 2. Renaissance poem 3. 3 books, sectioned off into cantos, ABABBCBCCDCD rhyme scheme, archaic diction 4. Duessa mourns over the loss of Sansjoy and goes to awaken Night 5. The loss of love, the power of love, mourning, rigid structure, rhyme

1. “Sonnet 130” by William Shakespeare 2. Renaissance poem 3. Shakespearian sonnet, ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme, love poem 4. Expresses that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and is not absolute 5. Love, appearance, woman and femininity, literature and writing, sonnet form

1. “Sonnet 30” from “The Amoretti” by Edmund Spenser 2. Renaissance poem 3. Elizabethan sonnet, ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme, love in realistic world 4. Love is able to exist, even between opposing forces 5. Love, passion, the temporal world, sonnet form, rigid structure, rhyme

1. “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell 2. Renaissance poem 3. 3 stanzas, stanza 1 and 2 are premises, stanza 3 is a conclusion, rich in figurative language 4. Marvell urges his lover to seize the moment and consummate their love 5. Carpe Diem, time, mortality, naturalistic imagery, rhyme, meter, rigid structure

1. “Death Be Not Proud” by John Donne 2. Renaissance poem 3. Elizabethan sonnet, 3 quatrains and a couplet, ABBACDDCEFFEGG rhyme scheme 4. Death is like a short sleep, so people should not fear it 5. Death is not the end, belief in a soul, belief in the afterlife, sonnet form, religious

1. “To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars” by Richard Lovelace 2. Renaissance poem 3. 3 stanzas of quatrains, lyrical poem, love, idealism 4. Lovelace juxtaposes his love for his mistress and his duty to his country 5. Love, honor, patriotism, duty, rigid structure, rhyme, Renaissance values

1. “Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?” by Sir John Suckling 2. Renaissance poem 3. 3 stanzas of 5 lines, first 2 stanzas ask questions, stanza 3 is a solution, lyrical poem 4. Suckling urges a young man to cease his doting over a girl who does not like him 5. Unrequited love, advice, earning love, rigid form, musical

1. “Song: To Celia” Ben Jonson 2. Renaissance poem 3. 2 stanzas, 8 lines each, ABCBABCB rhyme scheme, infatuation 4. A man encourages his lover to reveal her loving feelings for him 5. Courtly love, young love, rigid structure, rhyme

1. “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” Christopher Marlowe 2. Elizabethan poem, pastoral lyric 3. 5 stanzas, 4 lines each, AABB, blissful and optimistic 4. A man tries to convince his love to join him and live with him happily forever 5. Beauty of spring, love, fantasy, pastoral lyric, rigid structure