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Donne - FORM / STRUCTURE / CONTEXT / CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS

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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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Question 1

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FORM - Irregular iambic pentameter implies jarring dissonance in the thoughts of the speaker - INFERIORITY COMPLEX
Answer
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart
  • Thou Hast Made Me
  • The Flea
  • Song

Question 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
Answer
  • Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart
  • Hymn to God The Father
  • The Relic

Question 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.
Answer
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart
  • Hymn to God The Father

Question 4

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Constant friction between the sacred ("Three-person'd God") and the profane ("ravish", "chaste")
Answer
  • Batter My Heart
  • Thou Hast Made Me
  • Holy Sonnet X
  • Hymn to God The Father

Question 5

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Original version had no comma in first line - changes entire meaning of poem
Answer
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud
  • The Flea
  • Song
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Question 6

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Uses the Renaissance idea of sleep as death's image
Answer
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud
  • The Flea
  • The Relic
  • Hymn to God The Father

Question 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
Answer
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud
  • The Relic
  • Hymn to God The Father
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

Question 8

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"Shows anxiety about the permanence of human relationships" - John Carey
Answer
  • Song
  • The Flea
  • The Relic
  • Hymn to God The Father

Question 9

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Use of spondaic detrameter
Answer
  • Song
  • Hymn to God The Father
  • The Flea
  • The Relic

Question 10

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Use of rhyming triplet, giving the poem a lilting, sing-song quality - goes with the title.
Answer
  • The Relic
  • Hymn to God the Father
  • Song
  • The Flea

Question 11

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Subverted use of adunata to represent the impossibility of finding a faithful woman
Answer
  • The Flea
  • The Relic
  • The Sun Rising
  • Song

Question 12

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Alternative interpretation - Donne is mocking Petrarchan poetry, rather than woman
Answer
  • The Flea
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • Song

Question 13

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"Life from crown to sole" - Coleridge
Answer
  • Song
  • The Flea
  • Batter My Heart
  • Death Be Not Proud

Question 14

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Three equally weighted stanzas imply a sense of certainty
Answer
  • Song
  • Hymn to God The Father
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising

Question 15

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Opposition between the speaker's disengaged jaded attitude, and varying line lengths which indicate passion and emotion
Answer
  • Song
  • The Flea
  • The Good Morrow
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Question 16

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Structure - Stanza 1: Whimsical and contemplative Stanza 2: Becomes more absurd, pace quickens Stanza 3: Slowing, reversal of argument
Answer
  • The Flea
  • Song
  • Thou Hast Made Me
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud

Question 17

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Alludes to the Elizabethan concept of blood being exchanged during sex
Answer
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Flea
  • Song
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

Question 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
Answer
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart
  • The Flea
  • The Relic

Question 19

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Use of opposites such as: innocence/guilt, chastity/sexuality, sex/religion
Answer
  • Song
  • The Relic
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Flea

Question 20

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"About the most merely disgusting poem in our language" - Arthur Quiller-Couch
Answer
  • Song
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart
  • The Flea
  • Hymn to God The Father

Question 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).
Answer
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Flea
  • The Relic

Question 22

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Alludes to the cordiform map to link their love and the universe
Answer
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Flea
  • The Good Morrow
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Question 23

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"The two lovers create a whole and one is incomplete without the other" - Thomas N Corns
Answer
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Flea
  • The Relic

Question 24

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An AUBADE and CELEBRATION
Answer
  • The Good Morrow
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • The Flea
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud

Question 25

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Restrained and controlled Spenserian stanzas in iambic pentameter
Answer
  • Song
  • The Good Morrow
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Question 26

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Each stanza ends on an Alexandrine (6 iambic feet) - suggests his lover has brought his stability
Answer
  • The Relic
  • The Flea
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Good Morrow

Question 27

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Structure - First experience of love is childish, fleeting, and unstable Second experience of love is richer, more spiritual
Answer
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Flea
  • The Sun Rising
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Question 28

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Alludes to the Age of Discovery - celebrating a new beginning (new day/new world)
Answer
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Relic
  • Hymn to God The Father

Question 29

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One of Donne's earliest poems
Answer
  • The Relic
  • The Good Morrow
  • Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • The Sun Rising

Question 30

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Regular rhyme scheme - adds to underlying tone of wry wit/irony Irregular line length
Answer
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Relic
  • The Sun Rising
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me

Question 31

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Similar to a Madrigal
Answer
  • The Good Morrow
  • Hymn to God the Father
  • The Relic
  • The Sun Rising

Question 32

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Use of inclusive plural pronouns makes the poem more loving and inclusive than, for example, The Flea
Answer
  • The Relic
  • Hymn to God The Father
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising

Question 33

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"Fired by [Donne's] ambivalence about Catholicism" - Carol Rumen
Answer
  • The Relic
  • Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart
  • The Flea

Question 34

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Donne talks about judgement day "with no awesome solemnity" - James Winny
Answer
  • The Relic
  • The Flea
  • Hymn to God The Father
  • Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart

Question 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
Answer
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Relic
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud

Question 36

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The opening line both utilises and challenges the aubade form
Answer
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Relic
  • The Flea

Question 37

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Form - cross between a Shakespearean and Spenserian Sonnet - unique, or confused?
Answer
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Flea
  • Hymn to God The Father

Question 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.
Answer
  • The Flea
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter My Heart

Question 39

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"All consuming super reality" - Richard Jacobs
Answer
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

Question 40

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Use of a microcosmic conceit - their love represents the universe
Answer
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • The Flea
  • The Relic

Question 41

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Alludes to Donne's apostasy and his erotic poetry
Answer
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • Hymn to God the Father
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

Question 42

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Only poem Donne had set to music and sung at St Paul's Cathedral
Answer
  • HS I
  • HS XIV
  • HS X
  • Hymn to God The Father

Question 43

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Structure - Three controlled sestets - suggests he is in control of his thoughts - counteracts doubt about his divine worth
Answer
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Sun Rising
  • Hymn to God the Father
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart

Question 44

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Exploration of the via affirmative and via negativa
Answer
  • Thou Hast Made Me
  • Hymn to God the Father
  • Song
  • The Good Morrow

Question 45

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Alludes to the Calvinist belief of pre-destination
Answer
  • Hymn to God The Father
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Relic
  • Song

Question 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
Answer
  • HS I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • HS XIV: Batter My Heart
  • HS X: Death Be Not Proud
  • Hymn to God the Father

Question 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
Answer
  • HS I
  • HS XIV
  • HS X
  • Song

Question 48

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Use of the chiastic form (A B B1 A1) reinforces the panicked two-way motion
Answer
  • Song
  • The Flea
  • Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • Holy Sonnet X: Death Be Not Proud

Question 49

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Use of rhyming couplet - Shakespearian ending
Answer
  • Holy Sonnet I: Thou Hast Made Me
  • Song
  • The Flea
  • Hymn to God The Father
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