Poetry Class:
Id like you to consider each of these questions and answer them in paragraph form, say 8-10 sentences or so. They should be fairly self explanatory and I dont want to impact your analysis at all, so Ill keep it brief. That said, you may feel free to get in contact on the discussion board (Ill open a forum for it) if youd like clarification.
1. Compare one of the early poems (600-1400) to one of the later poems (1400-1780) and link the differences you see to one of the changes I discussed in the history and context section.
2. Take one of Phyllis Wheatleys poems and compare it to one of the more classically British poets Shakespeare, Milton, Charlotte Smith, or Pope. Is there a particular American-ness to our first American poet?
3. Most of the poets weve read in this section are white men, which is one of the traditional pitfalls of early poetry and what has been saved or recognized over time. For this question, Id like you to take one of the female poets Ive assigned Queen Elizabeth, Mary Sidney, Mary Wroth, Anne Bradstreet, Aphra Behn, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, or Phyllis Wheatley and explain what you think makes their poetry feminine or, as the case may be, not feminine. Does gender play a role in early poetry or not?
READINGS:
by Unknown
Caedmon’s Hymn (pg 1-2)
From Beowulf (pg 2-10)
The Wife’s Lament (pg 11-12)
The Seafarer (pg 12-15)
“I Am of Ireland” (pg 19)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales “General Prologue” (pg 19-39) [LONGER]
The Canterbury Tales “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” (pg 39-67) [LONGER]
by William Langland
Piers Plowman Lines 1-111 (pg 71-75) [LONGER]
by John Skelton
“To Mistress Margaret Hussey (pg 91)
by Thomas Wyatt
“They Flee from Me” (pg. 127)
by Queen Elizabeth I
“When I Was Fair and Young” (pg 142)
by Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene Canto I (pg 166-179) [LONGER]
by Sir Philip Sidney
“The Nightingale” (pg 211)
Astrophil and Stella 1 (pg 213)
by Mary Sidney
“To the Thrice-Sacred Queen Elizabeth” (pg 226)
by Christopher Marlowe
“Hero and Leander” (pg 238-256) [LONGER]
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” (pg 256-257)
by William Shakespeare
“Sonnet 2″ (pg 258)
“Sonnet 18” (pg 259)
“Sonnet 106” (pg 265)
“Sonnet 107” (pg 266)
“Sonnet 116” (pg 266)
“Sonnet 126” (pg 267)
by Thomas Campion
“There is a Garden in Her Face” (pg 282)
by John Donne
“Woman’s Constancy” (pg 294)
“Love’s Growth” (pg 300)
“The Flear” (pg 309)
by Ben Jonson
“To Sir Henry Cary” (pg 324)
“To John Donne” (pg 326)
“Song: To Celia (I)” (pg 331)
“To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare” (pg 342)
by Mary Wroth
from Pamphilia to Amphianthus (pg 347-353) [LONGER]
by Robert Herrick
“To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” (pg 357)
by George Herbert
“The Altar” (pg 367)
“Redemption” (pg 367)
by John Milton
“Lycidas” (pg 410-415) [LONGER]
“When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” (pg 418)
From Paradise Lost, Book 9 (pg 425-450) [LONGER]
by Anne Bradstreet
“To My Dear and Loving Husband” (pg 465)
by Richard Lovelace
“The Grasshopper” (pg 474)
by Andrew Marvell
“To His Coy Mistress” (pg 478)
“The Garden” (pg 484)
by John Dryden
From Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem (pg 501-517) [LONGER]
by Aphra Behn
“The Disappointment” (pg 541)
by Jonathan Swift
“The Lady’s Dressing Room” (pg 572-575)
by Alexander Pope
“The Rape of the Lock” (pg 604-621) [LONGER]
by Samuel Johnson
“On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet” (pg 664)
by Oliver Goldsmith
“When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly” (pg 686)
by William Cowper
“The Castaway” (pg pg 702)
by Anna Laetitia Barbauld
“The Rights of Woman” (pg 705-706)
by Charlotte Smith
From “Beachy Head” (pg 715-716)
by Phillis Wheatley
“On Being Brought from Africa to America” (pg 720-721)
“To S.M., a Young African Painter on Seeing His Works” (pg 721-722)
“On Imagination” (pg 722-723)
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