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Title: RENAISSANCE POETRY

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RENAISSANCE POETRY

PASTORAL POETRY
CARPE DIEM
SONNETS

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PASTORAL POETRY

Set in an idealized countryside
Inhabited by handsome shepherds and beautiful
young women (nymphs)
All live in harmony with nature
Characters are simple country folk, yet they use
sophisticated diction and imagery

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PASTORAL POETRY continued

Many express a longing or nostalgia for a
simpler, more innocent time
Takes its name from the Latin pastor meaning
shepherd
Depict country life in idyllic, idealized terms
Characters are naïve and innocent yet express
themselves with poetic sophistication

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PASTORAL POETRY continued

Christopher Marlowe (1564 1593)
Contemporary of William Shakespeare
His most famous play The Tragicall History of
Dr. Faustus, which is about a man who makes a
deal with the devil.
Our book tells us that Marlowes heroes want to
be more than mere men, and only death can put an
end to their grand ambitions
Marlowe is believed to have died in a bar fight
about the amount of a bill (258)

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The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by
Christopher Marlowe (pg. 259)

Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountains yields.
And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses,
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle,
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull,
Fair linèd slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold.

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs,
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me, and be my love.
The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning.
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me, and be my love.

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PASTORAL POETRY continued

Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552 1618)
Served as Queen Elizabeth Is confidential
secretary and captain of the guard
Devoted to colonizing the Americas
Charged with treason (not true) against King
James in 1603
Executed in 1618
Lived in Tower of London until execution
Did not think of himself as a writer only 35 of
his poems have survived (260)
Wrote a reply to C. Marlowes pastoral poem

125 / 195-7dc. Tower of London - Brick Tower -
and Sir Walter Raleigh.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Adventurer - explorer - parliamentarian - author
and poet - Raleigh was the man who according to
legend laid his cloak over a puddle so that Queen
Elizabeth 1st. would not muddy her feet. He also
introduced potatoes and tobacco into Britain from
the New World, now known as North America. So
why was Sir Walter Raleigh imprisoned in the
Tower of London. And, not just once but on three
separate occasions.
First time Early on in his career Raleigh
happened to be the favourite of Queen Elizabeth
1st. That is until in 1592 when she discovered he
was secretly married to her maid-of-honour
Elizabeth Throckmorton, whereupon she flew into a
jealous rage and sent him to the Tower of London.
Although he was later released, he was for ever
more banished from the Royal Court. As for where
he was imprisoned exactly, no-one really knows,
although it is thought that the Brick Tower above
is a likely candidate.

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....Second time Raleigh, although admired by
many, nevertheless, was not without his enemies
who in 1603 persuaded James 1st that he was
suspected of opposing the Kings succession to
the throne. And although not sentenced to death
for treason, Raleigh was nevertheless arrested
and sent to the Tower of London yet again. On
this occasion, however, he was definitely kept
here in the Bloody Tower. And an extra floor was
added so that his family, who wanted to be with
him, could also be accommodated.

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On the first floor of the Bloody Tower, seen
here, is Raleigh's private chamber in which you
can see the writing desk where he wrote the
'History of the World'. Although it appears he
did'nt get very far, as he only reached the
second Macedonian War in 130 BC....

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The Nymphs Reply to the Shepherd by Sir
Walter Raleigh (pg. 261)

If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherds tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love.
But Time drives flocks from field to fold,
When rivers rage and rocks grow cold,
And Philomel becometh dumb
The rest complains of cares to come.

The flowers do fade, and wanton fields
To wayward winter reckoning yields
A honey tongue, a heart of gall
Is fancys spring, but sorrows fall.
Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses,
Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies.
Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,
In folly ripe, in reason rotten.

Thy belt of straw and ivy buds,
Thy coral clasps and amber studs,
All these in me no means can move
To come to thee an be thy love.
But could youth last and love still breed,
Had joys no date, nor age no need,
Then these delights my mind might move
To live with thee and be thy love.

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CARPE DIEM

Literally means seize the day
Literary theme that urges living and loving in
the present moment, since life and earthly
pleasures cannot last (263)

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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert
Herrick (pg. 265)

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher hes a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer hes to setting.

That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time
And while ye may, go marry
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.

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To His Coy Mistressby Andrew Marvell (pg.
267-68)

Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, Lady, were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
Thou by the Indian Ganges side
Shouldst rubies find I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews,
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires and more slow

An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For. Lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear
Times wingèd chariot hurrying near
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song then worms shall try
That long-preserved virginity
And your quaint honor turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust
The graves a fine and private place
But none, I think, do there embrace.

Now therefore while the youthful hue
Sits on thy like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Through the iron gates of life
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

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SONNETS

A 14 lined lyric poem
Conforms to a specific rhyme scheme
You are responsible for knowing three types of
sonnets
1. Spenserian sonnet
2. Petrarchan sonnet
3. Shakespearean sonnet

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Spenserian sonnet taken from Literature
timeless voices, timeless themes

Named for the poet Edmund Spenser (1552 1599)
Born into a working-class family, but later
became one of the few poets who depended on his
writing money for his lively hood.
He is most famous for his sonnet sequence called
Amoretti, which is addressed to his own wife.
He dedicated The Faerie Queene to Elizabeth I.
Sonnet sequence a group of sonnets linked by
theme or subject. (206 07)

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SPENSERIAN SONNET continuedTAKEN FROM
LITERATURE TIMELESS VOICES, TUIMELESS THEMES

Rhyme scheme
ababbcbc cdcdee
The sonnet is divided into two sections
the octave and the sestet
The octave raises a question or presents a
situation and the sestet gives a response.

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Edmund SpenserSonnet 30

My love is like to ice, and I to fire
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
Is not delayed by her heart-frozen cold
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
And feel my flames augmented manifold?
What more miraculous thing may be told
That fire which all things melts, should harden
ice
And ice which is congealed with senseless cold,
Should kindle fire by wonderful device.
Such is the powr of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.

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Petrarchan sonnet

Also called the Italian sonnet
Rhyme scheme
abbaabba ccdeed
Divided into two parts
the octave and the sestet
The volta is the transition or turn of the sonnet
usually found in the ninth line
(276)

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Shakespearean sonnet