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A-Level English Literature (POETRY) Quiz on Donne - FORM / STRUCTURE / CONTEXT / CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS, created by Bethany Fieldhouse on 05/06/2016.

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Donne - FORM / STRUCTURE / CONTEXT / CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS

Question 1 of 49

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FORM - Irregular iambic pentameter implies jarring dissonance in the thoughts of the speaker - INFERIORITY COMPLEX

Select one of the following:

  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

  • Thou Hast Made Me

  • The Flea

  • Song

Explanation

Question 2 of 49

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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

Select one of the following:

  • Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me

  • Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart

  • Hymn to God The Father

  • The Relic

Explanation

Question 3 of 49

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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.

Select one of the following:

  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud

  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

  • Hymn to God The Father

Explanation

Question 4 of 49

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Constant friction between the sacred ("Three-person'd God") and the profane ("ravish", "chaste")

Select one of the following:

  • Batter My Heart

  • Thou Hast Made Me

  • Holy Sonnet X

  • Hymn to God The Father

Explanation

Question 5 of 49

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Original version had no comma in first line - changes entire meaning of poem

Select one of the following:

  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud

  • The Flea

  • Song

  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Explanation

Question 6 of 49

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Uses the Renaissance idea of sleep as death's image

Select one of the following:

  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud

  • The Flea

  • The Relic

  • Hymn to God The Father

Explanation

Question 7 of 49

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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

Select one of the following:

  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud

  • The Relic

  • Hymn to God The Father

  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

Explanation

Question 8 of 49

1

"Shows anxiety about the permanence of human relationships" - John Carey

Select one of the following:

  • Song

  • The Flea

  • The Relic

  • Hymn to God The Father

Explanation

Question 9 of 49

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Use of spondaic detrameter

Select one of the following:

  • Song

  • Hymn to God The Father

  • The Flea

  • The Relic

Explanation

Question 10 of 49

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Use of rhyming triplet, giving the poem a lilting, sing-song quality - goes with the title.

Select one of the following:

  • The Relic

  • Hymn to God the Father

  • Song

  • The Flea

Explanation

Question 11 of 49

1

Subverted use of adunata to represent the impossibility of finding a faithful woman

Select one of the following:

  • The Flea

  • The Relic

  • The Sun Rising

  • Song

Explanation

Question 12 of 49

1

Alternative interpretation - Donne is mocking Petrarchan poetry, rather than woman

Select one of the following:

  • The Flea

  • The Good Morrow

  • The Sun Rising

  • Song

Explanation

Question 13 of 49

1

"Life from crown to sole" - Coleridge

Select one of the following:

  • Song

  • The Flea

  • Batter My Heart

  • Death Be Not Proud

Explanation

Question 14 of 49

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Three equally weighted stanzas imply a sense of certainty

Select one of the following:

  • Song

  • Hymn to God The Father

  • The Good Morrow

  • The Sun Rising

Explanation

Question 15 of 49

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Opposition between the speaker's disengaged jaded attitude, and varying line lengths which indicate passion and emotion

Select one of the following:

  • Song

  • The Flea

  • The Good Morrow

  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Explanation

Question 16 of 49

1

Structure -
Stanza 1: Whimsical and contemplative
Stanza 2: Becomes more absurd, pace quickens
Stanza 3: Slowing, reversal of argument

Select one of the following:

  • The Flea

  • Song

  • Thou Hast Made Me

  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud

Explanation

Question 17 of 49

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Alludes to the Elizabethan concept of blood being exchanged during sex

Select one of the following:

  • The Sun Rising

  • The Flea

  • Song

  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

Explanation

Question 18 of 49

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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

Select one of the following:

  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

  • The Flea

  • The Relic

Explanation

Question 19 of 49

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Use of opposites such as: innocence/guilt, chastity/sexuality, sex/religion

Select one of the following:

  • Song

  • The Relic

  • The Sun Rising

  • The Flea

Explanation

Question 20 of 49

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"About the most merely disgusting poem in our language" - Arthur Quiller-Couch

Select one of the following:

  • Song

  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

  • The Flea

  • Hymn to God The Father

Explanation

Question 21 of 49

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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).

Select one of the following:

  • The Sun Rising

  • The Good Morrow

  • The Flea

  • The Relic

Explanation

Question 22 of 49

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Alludes to the cordiform map to link their love and the universe

Select one of the following:

  • The Sun Rising

  • The Flea

  • The Good Morrow

  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Explanation

Question 23 of 49

1

"The two lovers create a whole and one is incomplete without the other" - Thomas N Corns

Select one of the following:

  • The Good Morrow

  • The Sun Rising

  • The Flea

  • The Relic

Explanation

Question 24 of 49

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An AUBADE and CELEBRATION

Select one of the following:

  • The Good Morrow

  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

  • The Flea

  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud

Explanation

Question 25 of 49

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Restrained and controlled Spenserian stanzas in iambic pentameter

Select one of the following:

  • Song

  • The Good Morrow

  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud

  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Explanation

Question 26 of 49

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Each stanza ends on an Alexandrine (6 iambic feet) - suggests his lover has brought his stability

Select one of the following:

  • The Relic

  • The Flea

  • The Sun Rising

  • The Good Morrow

Explanation

Question 27 of 49

1

Structure -
First experience of love is childish, fleeting, and unstable
Second experience of love is richer, more spiritual

Select one of the following:

  • The Good Morrow

  • The Flea

  • The Sun Rising

  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Explanation

Question 28 of 49

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Alludes to the Age of Discovery - celebrating a new beginning (new day/new world)

Select one of the following:

  • The Sun Rising

  • The Good Morrow

  • The Relic

  • Hymn to God The Father

Explanation

Question 29 of 49

1

One of Donne's earliest poems

Select one of the following:

  • The Relic

  • The Good Morrow

  • Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me

  • The Sun Rising

Explanation

Question 30 of 49

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Regular rhyme scheme - adds to underlying tone of wry wit/irony
Irregular line length

Select one of the following:

  • The Good Morrow

  • The Relic

  • The Sun Rising

  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Explanation

Question 31 of 49

1

Similar to a Madrigal

Select one of the following:

  • The Good Morrow

  • Hymn to God the Father

  • The Relic

  • The Sun Rising

Explanation

Question 32 of 49

1

Use of inclusive plural pronouns makes the poem more loving and inclusive than, for example, The Flea

Select one of the following:

  • The Relic

  • Hymn to God The Father

  • The Good Morrow

  • The Sun Rising

Explanation

Question 33 of 49

1

"Fired by [Donne's] ambivalence about Catholicism" - Carol Rumen

Select one of the following:

  • The Relic

  • Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me

  • Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart

  • The Flea

Explanation

Question 34 of 49

1

Donne talks about judgement day "with no awesome solemnity" - James Winny

Select one of the following:

  • The Relic

  • The Flea

  • Hymn to God The Father

  • Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart

Explanation

Question 35 of 49

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • The Good Morrow

  • The Sun Rising

  • The Relic

  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud

Explanation

Question 36 of 49

1

The opening line both utilises and challenges the aubade form

Select one of the following:

  • The Good Morrow

  • The Sun Rising

  • The Relic

  • The Flea

Explanation

Question 37 of 49

1

Form - cross between a Shakespearean and Spenserian Sonnet - unique, or confused?

Select one of the following:

  • The Good Morrow

  • The Sun Rising

  • The Flea

  • Hymn to God The Father

Explanation

Question 38 of 49

1

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.

Select one of the following:

  • The Flea

  • The Good Morrow

  • The Sun Rising

  • Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart

Explanation

Question 39 of 49

1

"All consuming super reality" - Richard Jacobs

Select one of the following:

  • The Good Morrow

  • The Sun Rising

  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

Explanation

Question 40 of 49

1

Use of a microcosmic conceit - their love represents the universe

Select one of the following:

  • The Good Morrow

  • The Sun Rising

  • The Flea

  • The Relic

Explanation

Question 41 of 49

1

Alludes to Donne's apostasy and his erotic poetry

Select one of the following:

  • The Good Morrow

  • The Sun Rising

  • Hymn to God the Father

  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

Explanation

Question 42 of 49

1

Only poem Donne had set to music and sung at St Paul's Cathedral

Select one of the following:

  • HS I

  • HS XIV

  • HS X

  • Hymn to God The Father

Explanation

Question 43 of 49

1

Structure -
Three controlled sestets - suggests he is in control of his thoughts - counteracts doubt about his divine worth

Select one of the following:

  • The Good Morrow

  • The Sun Rising

  • Hymn to God the Father

  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

Explanation

Question 44 of 49

1

Exploration of the via affirmative and via negativa

Select one of the following:

  • Thou Hast Made Me

  • Hymn to God the Father

  • Song

  • The Good Morrow

Explanation

Question 45 of 49

1

Alludes to the Calvinist belief of pre-destination

Select one of the following:

  • Hymn to God The Father

  • The Good Morrow

  • The Relic

  • Song

Explanation

Question 46 of 49

1

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

Select one of the following:

  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud

  • Hymn to God the Father

Explanation

Question 47 of 49

1

Octave - imagery associated with moving backwards
Sestet - imagery associated with moving upwards
Some critics argue this gives the poem a cross-like structure

Select one of the following:

  • HS I

  • HS XIV

  • HS X

  • Song

Explanation

Question 48 of 49

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Use of the chiastic form (A B B1 A1) reinforces the panicked two-way motion

Select one of the following:

  • Song

  • The Flea

  • Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me

  • Holy Sonnet X: Death Be Not Proud

Explanation

Question 49 of 49

1

Use of rhyming couplet - Shakespearian ending

Select one of the following:

  • Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me

  • Song

  • The Flea

  • Hymn to God The Father

Explanation

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