Questão 1
Questão
FORM - Irregular iambic pentameter implies jarring dissonance in the thoughts of the speaker - INFERIORITY COMPLEX
Responda
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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
Questão 2
Questão
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
Questão 3
Questão
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.
Responda
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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
Questão 4
Questão
Constant friction between the sacred ("Three-person'd God") and the profane ("ravish", "chaste")
Responda
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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
Questão 5
Questão
Original version had no comma in first line - changes entire meaning of poem
Responda
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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
Questão 6
Questão
Uses the Renaissance idea of sleep as death's image
Responda
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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
Questão 7
Questão
"Donne's constant use of the belittling and ridiculing tone throughout the poem is indicative of his defiant stance towards death" - Fraser Small
Responda
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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
Questão 8
Questão
"Shows anxiety about the permanence of human relationships" - John Carey
Responda
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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
Questão 9
Questão
Use of spondaic detrameter
Responda
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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
Questão 10
Questão
Use of rhyming triplet, giving the poem a lilting, sing-song quality - goes with the title.
Responda
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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
Questão 11
Questão
Subverted use of adunata to represent the impossibility of finding a faithful woman
Responda
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The Flea
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The Relic
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The Sun Rising
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Song
Questão 12
Questão
Alternative interpretation - Donne is mocking Petrarchan poetry, rather than woman
Responda
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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
Questão 13
Questão
"Life from crown to sole" - Coleridge
Responda
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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
Questão 14
Questão
Three equally weighted stanzas imply a sense of certainty
Responda
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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
Questão 15
Questão
Opposition between the speaker's disengaged jaded attitude, and varying line lengths which indicate passion and emotion
Responda
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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
Questão 16
Questão
Structure -
Stanza 1: Whimsical and contemplative
Stanza 2: Becomes more absurd, pace quickens
Stanza 3: Slowing, reversal of argument
Responda
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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
Questão 17
Questão
Alludes to the Elizabethan concept of blood being exchanged during sex
Responda
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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
Questão 18
Questão
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
Responda
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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
Questão 19
Questão
Use of opposites such as: innocence/guilt, chastity/sexuality, sex/religion
Responda
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Song
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The Relic
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The Sun Rising
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The Flea
Questão 20
Questão
"About the most merely disgusting poem in our language" - Arthur Quiller-Couch
Responda
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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
Questão 21
Questão
Use of geographic semantic field - AO4: Renaissance voyages and exploration of the world (macro) and inner exploration of love and the self (micro).
Responda
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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
Questão 22
Questão
Alludes to the cordiform map to link their love and the universe
Responda
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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
Questão 23
Questão
"The two lovers create a whole and one is incomplete without the other" - Thomas N Corns
Responda
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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
Questão 24
Questão
An AUBADE and CELEBRATION
Responda
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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
Questão 25
Questão
Restrained and controlled Spenserian stanzas in iambic pentameter
Responda
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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
Questão 26
Questão
Each stanza ends on an Alexandrine (6 iambic feet) - suggests his lover has brought his stability
Responda
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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
Questão 27
Questão
Structure -
First experience of love is childish, fleeting, and unstable
Second experience of love is richer, more spiritual
Responda
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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
Questão 28
Questão
Alludes to the Age of Discovery - celebrating a new beginning (new day/new world)
Responda
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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
Questão 29
Questão
One of Donne's earliest poems
Questão 30
Questão
Regular rhyme scheme - adds to underlying tone of wry wit/irony
Irregular line length
Responda
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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
Questão 31
Questão
Similar to a Madrigal
Responda
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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
Questão 32
Questão
Use of inclusive plural pronouns makes the poem more loving and inclusive than, for example, The Flea
Responda
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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
Questão 33
Questão
"Fired by [Donne's] ambivalence about Catholicism" - Carol Rumen
Questão 34
Questão
Donne talks about judgement day "with no awesome solemnity" - James Winny
Questão 35
Questão
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
Responda
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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
Questão 36
Questão
The opening line both utilises and challenges the aubade form
Responda
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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
Questão 37
Questão
Form - cross between a Shakespearean and Spenserian Sonnet - unique, or confused?
Responda
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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
Questão 38
Questão
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.
Questão 39
Questão
"All consuming super reality" - Richard Jacobs
Responda
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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
Questão 40
Questão
Use of a microcosmic conceit - their love represents the universe
Responda
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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
Questão 41
Questão
Alludes to Donne's apostasy and his erotic poetry
Responda
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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
Questão 42
Questão
Only poem Donne had set to music and sung at St Paul's Cathedral
Responda
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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
Questão 43
Questão
Structure -
Three controlled sestets - suggests he is in control of his thoughts - counteracts doubt about his divine worth
Responda
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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
Questão 44
Questão
Exploration of the via affirmative and via negativa
Responda
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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
Questão 45
Questão
Alludes to the Calvinist belief of pre-destination
Responda
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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
Questão 46
Questão
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
Responda
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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
Questão 47
Questão
Octave - imagery associated with moving backwards
Sestet - imagery associated with moving upwards
Some critics argue this gives the poem a cross-like structure
Questão 48
Questão
Use of the chiastic form (A B B1 A1) reinforces the panicked two-way motion
Questão 49
Questão
Use of rhyming couplet - Shakespearian ending