Frage 1
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FORM - Irregular iambic pentameter implies jarring dissonance in the thoughts of the speaker - INFERIORITY COMPLEX
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HS XIV: Batter My Heart
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Thou Hast Made Me
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The Flea
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Song
Frage 2
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CRITICAL INTERPRETATION - "Donne regards his soul as female" (John Carey), his own soul is a female trapped in an unhappy marriage, needs another (God) to overwhelm her and take her away
Frage 3
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Represents the peak of Donne's conflict between secular and religious life, and his efforts to reconcile his new found sacred love with the more familiar, earthly love.
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HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
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HS X: Death Be Not Proud
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HS XIV: Batter My Heart
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Hymn to God The Father
Frage 4
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Constant friction between the sacred ("Three-person'd God") and the profane ("ravish", "chaste")
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Batter My Heart
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Thou Hast Made Me
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Holy Sonnet X
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Hymn to God The Father
Frage 5
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Original version had no comma in first line - changes entire meaning of poem
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HS X: Death Be Not Proud
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The Flea
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Song
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HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
Frage 6
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Uses the Renaissance idea of sleep as death's image
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HS X: Death Be Not Proud
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The Flea
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The Relic
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Hymn to God The Father
Frage 7
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"Donne's constant use of the belittling and ridiculing tone throughout the poem is indicative of his defiant stance towards death" - Fraser Small
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HS X: Death Be Not Proud
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The Relic
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Hymn to God The Father
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HS XIV: Batter My Heart
Frage 8
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"Shows anxiety about the permanence of human relationships" - John Carey
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Song
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The Flea
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The Relic
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Hymn to God The Father
Frage 9
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Use of spondaic detrameter
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Song
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Hymn to God The Father
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The Flea
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The Relic
Frage 10
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Use of rhyming triplet, giving the poem a lilting, sing-song quality - goes with the title.
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The Relic
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Hymn to God the Father
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Song
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The Flea
Frage 11
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Subverted use of adunata to represent the impossibility of finding a faithful woman
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The Flea
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The Relic
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The Sun Rising
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Song
Frage 12
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Alternative interpretation - Donne is mocking Petrarchan poetry, rather than woman
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The Flea
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The Good Morrow
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The Sun Rising
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Song
Frage 13
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"Life from crown to sole" - Coleridge
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Song
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The Flea
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Batter My Heart
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Death Be Not Proud
Frage 14
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Three equally weighted stanzas imply a sense of certainty
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Song
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Hymn to God The Father
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The Good Morrow
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The Sun Rising
Frage 15
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Opposition between the speaker's disengaged jaded attitude, and varying line lengths which indicate passion and emotion
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Song
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The Flea
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The Good Morrow
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HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
Frage 16
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Structure -
Stanza 1: Whimsical and contemplative
Stanza 2: Becomes more absurd, pace quickens
Stanza 3: Slowing, reversal of argument
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The Flea
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Song
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Thou Hast Made Me
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HS X: Death Be Not Proud
Frage 17
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Alludes to the Elizabethan concept of blood being exchanged during sex
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The Sun Rising
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The Flea
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Song
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HS XIV: Batter My Heart
Frage 18
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Semantic field of religion is emphasised as it seems out of place in a highly profane poem - could be seen as blasphemous, or as elevating the poem to seriousness
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HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
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HS XIV: Batter My Heart
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The Flea
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The Relic
Frage 19
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Use of opposites such as: innocence/guilt, chastity/sexuality, sex/religion
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Song
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The Relic
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The Sun Rising
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The Flea
Frage 20
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"About the most merely disgusting poem in our language" - Arthur Quiller-Couch
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Song
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HS XIV: Batter My Heart
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The Flea
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Hymn to God The Father
Frage 21
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Use of geographic semantic field - AO4: Renaissance voyages and exploration of the world (macro) and inner exploration of love and the self (micro).
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The Sun Rising
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The Good Morrow
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The Flea
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The Relic
Frage 22
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Alludes to the cordiform map to link their love and the universe
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The Sun Rising
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The Flea
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The Good Morrow
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HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
Frage 23
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"The two lovers create a whole and one is incomplete without the other" - Thomas N Corns
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The Good Morrow
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The Sun Rising
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The Flea
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The Relic
Frage 24
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An AUBADE and CELEBRATION
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The Good Morrow
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HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
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The Flea
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HS X: Death Be Not Proud
Frage 25
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Restrained and controlled Spenserian stanzas in iambic pentameter
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Song
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The Good Morrow
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HS X: Death Be Not Proud
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HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
Frage 26
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Each stanza ends on an Alexandrine (6 iambic feet) - suggests his lover has brought his stability
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The Relic
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The Flea
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The Sun Rising
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The Good Morrow
Frage 27
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Structure -
First experience of love is childish, fleeting, and unstable
Second experience of love is richer, more spiritual
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The Good Morrow
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The Flea
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The Sun Rising
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HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
Frage 28
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Alludes to the Age of Discovery - celebrating a new beginning (new day/new world)
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The Sun Rising
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The Good Morrow
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The Relic
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Hymn to God The Father
Frage 29
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One of Donne's earliest poems
Frage 30
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Regular rhyme scheme - adds to underlying tone of wry wit/irony
Irregular line length
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The Good Morrow
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The Relic
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The Sun Rising
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HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
Frage 31
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Similar to a Madrigal
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The Good Morrow
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Hymn to God the Father
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The Relic
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The Sun Rising
Frage 32
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Use of inclusive plural pronouns makes the poem more loving and inclusive than, for example, The Flea
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The Relic
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Hymn to God The Father
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The Good Morrow
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The Sun Rising
Frage 33
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"Fired by [Donne's] ambivalence about Catholicism" - Carol Rumen
Frage 34
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Donne talks about judgement day "with no awesome solemnity" - James Winny
Frage 35
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Assumes a geocentric view of the world (sun orbits earth), rather an a heliocentric view (planets orbit sun), which had been developed around 20 years before Donne started writing
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The Good Morrow
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The Sun Rising
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The Relic
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HS X: Death Be Not Proud
Frage 36
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The opening line both utilises and challenges the aubade form
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The Good Morrow
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The Sun Rising
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The Relic
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The Flea
Frage 37
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Form - cross between a Shakespearean and Spenserian Sonnet - unique, or confused?
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The Good Morrow
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The Sun Rising
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The Flea
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Hymn to God The Father
Frage 38
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Can be read as a glorious love poem, but with darker undertones of objectification and male possessiveness - the woman is reduced to an erotically sexualised acquisition.
Frage 39
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"All consuming super reality" - Richard Jacobs
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The Good Morrow
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The Sun Rising
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HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
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HS XIV: Batter My Heart
Frage 40
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Use of a microcosmic conceit - their love represents the universe
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The Good Morrow
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The Sun Rising
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The Flea
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The Relic
Frage 41
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Alludes to Donne's apostasy and his erotic poetry
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The Good Morrow
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The Sun Rising
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Hymn to God the Father
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HS XIV: Batter My Heart
Frage 42
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Only poem Donne had set to music and sung at St Paul's Cathedral
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HS I
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HS XIV
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HS X
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Hymn to God The Father
Frage 43
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Structure -
Three controlled sestets - suggests he is in control of his thoughts - counteracts doubt about his divine worth
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The Good Morrow
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The Sun Rising
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Hymn to God the Father
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HS XIV: Batter My Heart
Frage 44
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Exploration of the via affirmative and via negativa
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Thou Hast Made Me
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Hymn to God the Father
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Song
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The Good Morrow
Frage 45
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Alludes to the Calvinist belief of pre-destination
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Hymn to God The Father
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The Good Morrow
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The Relic
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Song
Frage 46
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Opening of the poem takes an accusatory tone - unusual for the Dean of St Paul's. Reflects Donne's complicated relationship with faith and religion
Antworten
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HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
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HS XIV: Batter My Heart
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HS X: Death Be Not Proud
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Hymn to God the Father
Frage 47
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Octave - imagery associated with moving backwards
Sestet - imagery associated with moving upwards
Some critics argue this gives the poem a cross-like structure
Frage 48
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Use of the chiastic form (A B B1 A1) reinforces the panicked two-way motion
Frage 49
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Use of rhyming couplet - Shakespearian ending