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1. Song by John Donne. The narrator of Song has been disappointed so many times by women he loved that he has concluded that no woman in the world is sincere. To make his point, he names impossible tasks that no one could complete before finding a woman who is “true”. Write quotations of the poem that describe 3 of the tasks and explain why they are impossible to achieve. * Get a child a madrake root pregnant: It is imposible for a man to fecundate a plant and get it pregnant because of several reasons. First, only the same species can reproduce. Humans and plants are entirely different, starting from their way of reproduction. Humans are mammals, while plants reproduce through seeds: they have entirely different organs and systems, which are crucial to their reproduction. It would be imposible for a man to carry out the whole process of reproduction, starting from the fecundation to the development, because of their different anatomy. Humans do not have polen, as plants a womb (forexample). * Tell me, where all past years are: It is said that what is lost is lost forever. Past years are gone: lost and therefore they are nowhere because they were nothing since the moment they were lost. Time passed is time lost. It doesn’t exists. * Teach me to hear mermaids singing: There is nomermaids. Mermaids don’t exist, rather than in books, myths, and human’s imagination. One can not hear what doesn’t exists. 2. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne The speaker compares himself and his beloved to a compass. Write at least three different ways that the speaker describles the compass – The compass arms’s center lays still in the center, rotate and move silently through the instrument. Likewise they willl depart silently. Their love is and should be also silent because it is too precious to profane it. There is another arm that runs behind another, such as a man behind his beloved. He and she will always love each other. The compass is circular and perfect, such asthe author and his beloved’s love. The compass arms, always end when they began. Even though the two lovers now depart, they will son reunite. 3. Meditation 17 by John Donne This essay presents the idea that “no man is an island” and reinforces this idea by listing many events that illustrate the interconnectedness of human lives. Write 5 events that Donne believes are universal experiences. – All men are mortals. – No man chooses his/her death (both time or cause). They are all chosen by God. – All men suffer. – All men are part of the church and therefore of God’s body. – Personal suffering is useless to men. Their own suffering is worthless, rather than the one of others. – Men aspire to heaven not by their own suffering, but helping other’s with theirs. 4. Death be not Proud, by John Donne Do you think that the narrator is as fearless as he claims, or is he driven by fear? Explain your answer. I believe that the narrator is neither fearless nor driven by fear. I believe that he isdriven at the same time both by faith and fear. However, I belive that between these two he talks more because of faith. Because his faith is too strong he has the strengh, not to “challenge” but tell death what he thinks of it. His faith, rather than lack of fear or proudness is what drives him. 5. On my first Son and Song to Celia, by Ben Jonson In each of these poems the speaker makes clear his love for someone. Then, in both poems, the bond is broken or damaged. Identify the person to whom the speaker feels bonded in each poem, describe what happens, and describe the speaker’s tribute. Explain how the ending of each poem would be different if the narrator had not felt so strongly bonded to the subject of each poem. * On my first Son: The speakers is adressing to his first son, to whom he feels profoundly bonded. Death takes away from the father his son. He tributes him as the object of his faith, sorrow, and relief. He expresses that he was his faith, and becuase of this also hissorrow. He also tributes him as his relief, the one that he finds in knowing that his son didn’t had to face the complications of age. He tributes his childhood. * Song to Celia: the speakers feels bonded to his beloved, to whom he asks for a pledge. He pays tributes to her expressive and intimate gaze, which can communicate him what she thinks, without using words. 6. Why so Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? by Sir John Suckling The speaker reveals his version of the “rules” of romantic love. Write 6 characteristics that Suckling thinks a young suitor must have, and 6 for a woman being courted. Do the characters in the poem live up to the speaker’s standards? Why or why not? Characteristics a young suitor must have: – Inteligence and keenness – Talkative – Handsomeness – Confidence – Self-assurance – Courtesy/ Good-Maners Characteristicas a woman being courted: – Humility – Tact – Courtesy – Accesibility – Insight Presently none of the characters fulfill the characteristic that the authorconsiders necesary. Initially, the mad had them but the woman never did. The man courted her with all the characteristics but the woman never paid attention to him. Now, as time passed he has lost them after trying and finding not her love but despair. 7. To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars and To Althea, From Prison, by Richard Lovelace In Lovelace’s poems, love conquers a great deal, but not all. Briefly summarize each poem’s presentation of how love can triumph and how it can be defeated.Then give examples of images from each poem that support that belief. To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars Triumph: Love is constant. One is always going to be worried for one’s beloved, despite of the circumstances. One can not supress the the feelings it involves. Lucasta can not feel preocupied and sad about his beloved going to war, even though he asks her not to. Defeat: Love can sometimes be replaced. In the poem it seems to be replaced by the man’s love for battle and honor. To Althea, From PrisonTriumph: Love can not be controlled. A person or circumstances can not force a person not to love another. In the poem, imprisonment can not prevent the prisoner from thinking. It cannot imprison his feelings, his mind. Defeat: Circumstances can separate physically two lovers. In the poem, the author is separated from his lover because he is imprisoned. Like this: Like Loading... Related