Quiz: Poetry (lxxviii-lxxxii), Sonnets
- What was the dominant poetic form from the Renaissance to the 20th century?
- What important innovations did Wyatt and Surrey introduce?
- How are classical poetic "feet" different from English feet?
- Give an example of an iamb and a trochee.
- Name some classical forms That English transformed.
- Give an example of a 16th century verse poem.
- Who advised poets to be "not winding, or wanton"? What did he mean?
- What is a conceit? Give an example from the book.
- Who criticized the "metaphysical" poets? Who praised them? why?
- What were two things the "cavalier" poets had in common?
- Who were two puritan poets?
Sonnets (starting on 121)
- What posthumous publication popularized the sonnet in the 1590s?
- How are Petrarchan, English, and Spenserian sonnets different?
- What poetic tools did Petrarch use to express his unfulfilled love for "Laura"?
- In Wyatt's translation of Petrarch's sonnet 190, to what does he compare (metaphorically) "Laura"? To what does he compare himself?
- In Lodge's translation of Ronsard's Phillis 34, he imagines himself transformed into three different forms to better love Phyllis. Name two of those forms.
- In Sonnet 6, Daniel describes "Delia" in several paradoxical or antithetical terms. Describe one such contradiction.
- Drayton's sonnet 63 uses a "conceit or controlling metaphor. What is it?
Sidney (Sonnet 7 -- page 259 and Sonnet31 -- page 261)
- In Sonnet 7 Sidney contemplates contradictions associated with "Stella"'s eyes. What is one of these?
- Sonnet 31 is Sidney's apostrophe (address to an absent one) to the moon. What is one question he asks of it?
Mary Queen of Scots to Elizabeth (page 330)
- In the last sestet of her sonnet, Mary makes an analogy between herself and what? Why?