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Assignment 7 April 27, 2009 in Assignments | No comments 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. 2. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne The speaker compares hismelf and his beloved to a compass. Write at least three different ways that the speaker describes the compass. 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. 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. 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. 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? 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. Your First Test… April 27, 2009 in Study guide | No comments Whoso List to Hunt by Sir Thomas Wyatt Sonnets 30 and 75 by Edmund Spenser Sonnets 29, 73, 116 and 130 by William Shakespeare The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell Song A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, Meditation 17, Death Be Not Proud by John Donne On My First Son, Song: To Celia by Ben Jonson Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? by Sir John Suckling To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars, To Althea, from Prison by Richard Lovelace

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