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-Personal God
Puritan's view of God
-Use of scripture
-Sinful
Puritan's view of man
-In need of redempion
-Given by scripture
Puritan's view of morality
-No trust in intellect and emotions
Literary characteristics of · No drama (plays/theaters were shut down)
the Puritan era · Poetry (Metaphysical, cavalier)
What were metaphysical Wrote on deep spiritual ideas (Herbert and Donne)
poets?
Wrote on light-hearted topics of nature, romance,
What were cavalier poets?
pastoral
Name 2 metaphysical 1. John Donne
poets 2.George Herbert
· Leader of metaphysical poets
Characteristics of John · Priest
Donne · Wrote "A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning"
· Wrote Holy Sonnet 10
Characteristics of A · "Valediction" means "farewell"
Valediction: Forbidding · Theme: True love can withstand separation
Mourning · Contrasting physical aspects of life with spiritual
, What does "valediction" Farewell
mean?
· Simile - Comparison using "like" or "as"
Literary devices used in A
· Metaphysical conceit - Using something physical and
Valediction: Forbidding
giving it "meta" (beyond physical" qualities
Mourning
· Wife's love = foot of a compass
What line in A Valediction: Line 24
Forbidding Mourning uses
simile?
Using something physical and giving it "meta" (beyond
What is metaphysical physical" qualities
conceit? -Unusual, elaborate comparisons (from science,
philosophy, farming, everyday life)
In what lines is there Lines 25-29
metaphysical conceit used
in A Valediction:
Forbidding Mourning?
In what poem does the A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
narrator compare his wife's
love to a foot of a
compass?
· Apostrophe (423) - Speaking to an inanimate object
· Italian sonnet
Literary devices used in -Introduction (octave) - Death thinks that he is
Holy Sonnet 10 powerful
-Conclusion (sestet) - Death really has no power on
his own
What is an apostrophe? Speaking to an inanimate object
Characteristics of Italian -Introduction (octave)
sonnets -Conclusion (sestet)
What is the name for the sestet
conclusion of an Italian
sonnet?