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Metaphysicals Crit

Question 1 of 47

1

'Sexual possession of the female is characteristically equated with territorial acquisition'

Select one of the following:

  • DAVIS

  • VAN EMDEN

  • DRAPER

  • GORTON

Explanation

Question 2 of 47

1

'His masculinity of expression'

Select one of the following:

  • DAVIS

  • VAN EMDEN

  • DRAPER

  • GORTON

Explanation

Question 3 of 47

1

'sexualised vision Donne puts forward in his poetry'

Select one of the following:

  • DAVIS

  • VAN EMDEN

  • DRAPER

  • GORTON

Explanation

Question 4 of 47

1

'Coterie poems were written as performances'

Select one of the following:

  • DAVIS

  • VAN EMDEN

  • PEBWORTH

  • GORTON

Explanation

Question 5 of 47

1

'Donne's contradictoriness... bespeaks a penchant for bravura, virtuosic performance'

Select one of the following:

  • DAVIS

  • VAN EMDEN

  • DRAPER

  • PEBWORTH

Explanation

Question 6 of 47

1

'Intensely lived reality of voice'

Select one of the following:

  • VAN EMDEN

  • DAVIS

  • PEBWORTH

  • DRAPER

Explanation

Question 7 of 47

1

'The spontaneity and linguistic surprise that characterises his best wrought lyrics'

Select one of the following:

  • PEBWORTH

  • VAN EMDEN

  • DRAPER

  • LEWIS

Explanation

Question 8 of 47

1

'able to synthesize the essence of drama into his work'

Select one of the following:

  • LEWIS

  • VAN EMDEN

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • CAREY

Explanation

Question 9 of 47

1

'as readers we are cast into the role of the audience'

Select one of the following:

  • LEWIS

  • PEBWORTH

  • LARSON

  • DAVIS

Explanation

Question 10 of 47

1

THCM 'conveys a mood of majestic endurance that innovatively explicates the 'Carpe-Diem' motif

Select one of the following:

  • LARSON

  • VAN EMDEN

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • DAVIS

Explanation

Question 11 of 47

1

TSR 'the argument is provocative, given the sun's normal role as a King of the heavenly bodies... and even blasphemous'

Select one of the following:

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • DAVIS

  • PEBWORTH

  • VAN EMDEN

Explanation

Question 12 of 47

1

TSR 'It is because she moves him to this dramatic urgency that we know her influence... her value is his veneration'

Select one of the following:

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • PEBWORTH

  • GORTON

  • DRAPER

Explanation

Question 13 of 47

1

TSR 'The poem's strange power is to cancel, or transcend, or to mock the obvious'

Select one of the following:

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • LEWIS

  • DAVIS

  • DRAPER

Explanation

Question 14 of 47

1

'a question gender criticism raises is how far the love poetry of Donne is written for women at all, or whether its written for other male members of his coterie'

Select one of the following:

  • WILLMOTT

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • GORTON

  • DRAPER

Explanation

Question 15 of 47

1

'Donne treats argument not as an instrument for discovering truth but as a flexible poetic accessory'

Select one of the following:

  • CAREY

  • GORTON

  • DRAPER

  • VAN EMDEN

Explanation

Question 16 of 47

1

'We are almost always aware of where Donne's speakers are'

Select one of the following:

  • GORTON

  • DRAPER

  • PEBWORTH

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

Explanation

Question 17 of 47

1

'The lovers confidence is a kind of courage'

Select one of the following:

  • GORTON

  • DRAPER

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • VAN EMDEN

Explanation

Question 18 of 47

1

'Donne's poetry plays on the uncertainties of the time'

Select one of the following:

  • GORTON

  • DRAPER

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • VAN EMDEN

Explanation

Question 19 of 47

1

'We feel the conflict between space and time as a premonition of failure or decline'

Select one of the following:

  • GORTON

  • CAREY

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • DRAPER

Explanation

Question 20 of 47

1

TSR 'Our pleasure in the imaginative power of the lover is undercut by our knowledge of the sun's unstoppable passage'

Select one of the following:

  • GORTON

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • PEBWORTH

  • DRAPER

Explanation

Question 21 of 47

1

'Colloquial immediacy and freedom from metrical regularity'

Select one of the following:

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • DRAPER

  • CAREY

  • DAVIS

Explanation

Question 22 of 47

1

'Donne satirises worldlings and makes fun of the besotted lover'

Select one of the following:

  • DRAPER

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • GORTON

  • VAN EMDEN

Explanation

Question 23 of 47

1

'The poem as a vehicle of persuasion'

Select one of the following:

  • DRAPER

  • GORTON

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • PEBWORTH

Explanation

Question 24 of 47

1

TSR 'The opening is a deliberate downgrading of the aubade, or dawn-poem, inversion of hierachal associations of the sun with virtue, kingship and authority'

Select one of the following:

  • DRAPER

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • VAN EMDEN

  • DAVIS

Explanation

Question 25 of 47

1

'intellectual rigour which characterises Donne's poetry'

Select one of the following:

  • DRAPER

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • VAN EMDEN

  • LARSON

Explanation

Question 26 of 47

1

'His commitment to reason is fundamental... his poetry employs a linguistic mode dedicated to the arts of argumentative persuasion'

Select one of the following:

  • DRAPER

  • DAVIS

  • PEBWORTH

  • GORTON

Explanation

Question 27 of 47

1

TSR 'a poem of conversation and wild, joyful hyperbole'

Select one of the following:

  • VAN EMDEN

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • PEBWORTH

  • DAVIS

Explanation

Question 28 of 47

1

TSR 'The poet's ecstatic happiness is expressed in wild exaggeration to the point of self-mockery'

Select one of the following:

  • VAN EMDEN

  • DRAPER

  • DAVIS

  • WILLMOTT

Explanation

Question 29 of 47

1

NUSLD 'gives sense of total loss both intellectual definition & emotional intensity'

Select one of the following:

  • VAN EMDEN

  • DRAPER

  • GORTON

  • CAREY

Explanation

Question 30 of 47

1

NUSLD 'The poem begins quietly w/ heavy stresses, slow movement & repetition which produce a sense of deep melancholy'

Select one of the following:

  • VAN EMDEN

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • PEBWORTH

  • GORTON

Explanation

Question 31 of 47

1

THCM 'The range of emotions & evocative power makes the poem one of the greatest expressions of basic opposition of human life; love versus death'

Select one of the following:

  • CAREY

  • VAN EMDEN

  • DAVIS

  • PEBWORTH

Explanation

Question 32 of 47

1

'Donne's famous roughness & irregularities of rhythm are a part of his profession of masculinity of language'

Select one of the following:

  • DRAPER

  • VAN EMDEN

  • DAVIS

  • LEWIS

Explanation

Question 33 of 47

1

NUSLD 'A fine, tender expression of love in the form of a meditation for nocturn'

Select one of the following:

  • WILLMOTT

  • COLES

  • DAVIS

  • PINSENT

Explanation

Question 34 of 47

1

NUSLD 'The speaker is lying on the bed, so drained of life, he seems to be the 'epitaph' for the general interment of the world'

Select one of the following:

  • COLES

  • RUMEN

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • DRAPER

Explanation

Question 35 of 47

1

TF 'a witty attempt of a lover to convince his lady to be in his body as well as spirit'

Select one of the following:

  • PINSENT

  • COLES

  • DAVIS

  • DRAPER

Explanation

Question 36 of 47

1

TF 'The speaker is involved in a dramatic dialogue with his mistress, where she is given the opportunity to answer back, though her replies are inaudible to us'

Select one of the following:

  • PINSENT

  • RUMEN

  • VAN EMDEN

  • WILLMOTT

Explanation

Question 37 of 47

1

TF 'The stanza is linked to the movement of the action between persona and the implied participant'

Select one of the following:

  • PINSENT

  • COLES

  • WILLMOTT

  • DRAPER

Explanation

Question 38 of 47

1

BMH '14 verbs, dominated by command... introduce us to a sphere of powerful emotional activity'

Select one of the following:

  • DAVIS

  • RUMEN

Explanation

Question 39 of 47

1

'climactic sexuality of the sestet'

Select one of the following:

  • COLES

  • DAVIS

  • RUMEN

  • PINSENT

Explanation

Question 40 of 47

1

BMH 'he relishes the idea of being manned'

Select one of the following:

  • DAVIS

  • COLES

  • GORTON

  • DRAPER

Explanation

Question 41 of 47

1

THCM 'Time is bearing down, and with it the entire weight & fury of the patriarchal tradition'

Select one of the following:

  • WILLMOTT

  • VAN EMDEN

  • DRAPER

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

Explanation

Question 42 of 47

1

THCM 'Time is bearing down, and with it the entire weight & fury of the patriarchal tradition'

Select one of the following:

  • WILLMOTT

  • VAN EMDEN

  • DRAPER

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

Explanation

Question 43 of 47

1

THCM 'Marvell takes the conventional plea to new heights of imaginative wit'

Select one of the following:

  • COLES

  • RUMEN

  • DAVIS

  • PINSENT

Explanation

Question 44 of 47

1

THCM 'The lightly teasing tone, the easy fluidity of the argument'

Select one of the following:

  • RUMEN

  • DRAPER

  • PINSENT

  • WILLMOTT

Explanation

Question 45 of 47

1

THCM; 'He reflects the earnest dream of every lover; timelessness'

Select one of the following:

  • RUMEN

  • DRAPER

  • PINSENT

  • WILLMOTT

Explanation

Question 46 of 47

1

THCM 'Marvell's poem, in its listing of the parts of the mistress' body to be praised is dismemberment comparable to a doctor's dissection'

Select one of the following:

  • WILLMOTT

  • PINSENT

  • DYSON/LOVELOCK

  • COLES

Explanation

Question 47 of 47

1

THCM 'In a world where riches were for male possession, it seems reasonable to assume the female reader may have had a cynical view of imagery which equates the woman with wealth'

Select one of the following:

  • WILLMOTT

  • COLES

  • DRAPER

  • PINSENT

Explanation