Poetry: Cambridge English AS Level Songs of Ourselves

What Thing Is Love? George Peele

A. The poem deals with Peele reflecting on what love is. It focuses on the oxymoronic associations of beauty/joy and pain/misery. B. Personification: Peele personifies love as Cupid in the poem. He gives love a godly power that can be controlled for good or misused. He is giving love a power to control and overpower a person and to take over their heart (in a good or bad way). Metaphors: The metaphors also help give power and strength to what love is. In lines 4 and 5, love is compared to a "fire" (steamy and romantic) and a "coal" (fuel of life) and then is told to be a "flame" that "creeps in at every hole" meaning that it affects every part of you. Contrast: The entire poem has constant contrasts to show you the good and bad side of love. It is emphasizing that love is more than the "pretty thing", it is also a "sting". Poem Structure: The poem structure is important because the entire poem is one stanza. The stanza is meant to represent a continuous thought, Starting with a rhetorical question, we continue to a contrast and an answer to the question all in one swift motion with two semicolons to represent reflection over the answer. C. George Peele D. The tone of the poem is calm and reflective. E. F."It is a prick, it is a sting, It is a pretty, pretty thing;" "Love's dwelling is in ladies' eyes, From whence do glance love's piercing darts"

A Song Thomas Carew

A. The poem is a love poem about a woman and how she holds all the answers that Carew has about love and beauty and all that stuff. B. Repetition: So this guy really doesn't want people asking him stuff. He continuously repeats that he is to be asked no more about certain things that can be compared to the girl because this woman has all the answers. The answers to the stars and the phoenixes and all of that jazz lie within this one person. Hyperbole: Carew has some serious exaggeration throughout this poem. He compares this woman who he is in love with to all of these fascinating things we can find in nature. Not only are they fascinating, they are THE MOST fascinating and some are even mythical yet they all exist within her because she's freaking fantastic. Structure: Another thing to notice is the pauses in lines 3-4 in almost every stanza as opposed to the enjambment in lines 1-2 in almost every stanza. The impact of this is that after the question is raised (through saying that it can no longer be asked about) we slow down when we contemplate how each comparison reflects an aspect of this girl's beauty. C. Thomas Carew D. The tone is melodious, loving, and romantic E. F. "Ask me no more where those stars light" "For in pure love heaven did prepare Those powders to enrich your hair."

I Grieve, and Dare Not Show my Discontent Queen Elizabeth I

A. The poem is about Queen Elizabeth and her struggle to hide her true self. She faces the dilemma of having to stay strong for her subjects and keeping her feelings inside. She has to wear a mask and be another person for her country. B. Personfication: She personifies her shadow (stanza 2) to signify how her cares follow her in every aspect of her life. Her duties are inescapable. Extended Metaphor: QE extends her shadows metaphor to describe her own feelings. They fly alongside her and lay down with her as she sleeps. They are always with her but they are suppressed like the shadow. Juxtaposition: She uses significant contrast throughout the poem to emphasis her feelings. She "hates" and "loves", "floats" or "sinks". C. Queen Elizabeth I D. QE's tone in the poem is somber and heartbroken. Sorrowful is another word to use it. E. F. "I love, and yet I am forced to seem to hate" "My care is like my shadow in the sun" "For I am soft and made of melting snow"

They Flee From Me, That Sometime Did Me Seek Sir Thomas Wyatt

A. The poet is being nostalgic for his earlier days when he was a bit of a hit with the ladies and used to get his end away regularly. He expresses this period through a hunting analogy. B. Sarcasm: In the last two lines, Wyatt doesn't think he has been 'kindly served'. He feels like he has been tossed aside. The last line is meant in the manner of him wanting to know she got her comeuppance. Semantic field of hunting: In the first line the words 'flee' and 'seek' position the girls as animals now scared, but previously lured in by the hunter/poet. The 'stalking', where the relationship he has with the girls is described as 'gentle, tame , and meek'. C. Sir Thomas Wyatt D. The tone of this poem is regret. E. When I Fair F. "They flee from me, that sometime did me seek" "To take bread at my hand; and now they range"

Sonnet 11 Lady Mary Wroth

A. The sequence is about a girl expressing her feelings after her lover has been unfaithful. However, I think the strength of the expression of these extreme emotions indicate that she has experienced this kind of emotional destruction personally. I think this poem is directly about her anger and misery at Queen Anne making her love impossible, depriving her of her man. B. Rhetorical Questions: Repeated, bitter questioning of Love's motives and actions show her anger and an almost helpless lashing out. The third of these contains the implied threat of suicide if she continues to have to deal with these feelings. Word Choice: Throughout your discussion of the content of this poem, you should be referring to the powerful vocabulary used to express the poetic voice's suffering. Wroth uses 'endless torments', 'sharp distress', 'cruelty' and 'rage' to associate the emotions of the poem with acute suffering and torture brought on by the loss of love. She contrasts this with the feeling of 'delight' from Love as if the emotion enjoys its power to destroy its victims. Structure: It is significant that this is written in the sonnet form. Traditionally sonnets are associated with expressions of love/infatuation/longing, but this completely turns the form on its head by showing the darker side of love. C. Lady Mary Wroth D. The tone is angry and depressed E. F. "O quickly end, and do not long debate My needful aid, lest help do come too late." "How long will you delight in my sad pain?"

Sonnet 18 Wiliam Shakespeare

A. This is a celebration of a girl's beauty through comparison with the Summer, a reflection on mortality and a promise to transcend death through poetry. B. Rhetorical question: A rhetorical question opens the sonnet, questioning whether the summer is fair enough to be compared to the poetic voice's love. Suggesting summer as being similar should immediately make you think of connotations such as warm, joyful, bright and beautiful. However, his love is 'more lovely' and 'more temperature' meaning that she is even more impressive than the summer's. Symbolism: 'Rough winds' of May shaking the 'darling buds' represents the tempestuous spring, which in turn could represent a period where a woman's beauty and attitude are being refined. Imagery: Her beauty was 'too hot' and therefore would the perfect 'gold complexion' always have to eventually be 'dimmed' like the sun gradually falling after midday. As the sun rises and falls, so too must his love's beauty. C. William Shakespeare D. The tone of the poem is passion. E. Sonnet 75 F. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Thou art more lovely and more temperate" "Nor in death brag thou wander'st in his shade." "So long lives this,and this gives life to thee."

No Crooked Leg, No Bleared Eye Queen Elizabeth I

A. This is a little, bitchy rant about how suspicion can corrupt and ruin a good person. Mary was incredibly worried that Elizabeth would be used to head a rebellion to replace her on the throne. As a result of this suspicion she decided to imprison Elizabeth, in the Tower of London (a bizarrely named castle in central London) for a year to prevent her being used in this way. This poem was written during Elizabeth's captivity in her book of prayers, hidden from her guards. B. Structure: This is an epigram - a brief satirical statement. There is barely anything to mention other than the fact it is written in regular iambic pentameter (8 syllables to the line) and has a regular rhyme of ABAB (though the As are at best half-rhymes). The regularity reflects Elizabeth's mind; she is not emotional, this is a cold, hard statement of reality and I get the impression of resentment that has brooded during her captivity. Word choice: The 'inward suspicious mind' suggests that the feeling of suspicion or doubt is something held deep down and grows with time. I think the word inward has been used to show this may not be the publicly held opinion or idea, but suspicion that has been planted privately and is not popularly held. I could, of course, be wrong. Comparison: Comparing two things that make people stop being beautiful (crooked legs and bleared eyes) to someone who is suspicious. Maybe a hyperbole? C. Queen Elizabeth I D. The tone is one of resentment E. F. "Nor yet so ugly half can be As is the inward suspicious mind."

Sonnet 19 Lady Mary Wroth

A. This poem explores emotions through pathetic fallacy as she compares her torment to a late autumnal night as the season slips away to winter. B. Language: The language was used to convey her emotions. If the trees are 'distressed' this suggests they are so miserable that they almost don't know what to do, how to react, how to carry on with their lives. Association of love and death: She intensifies her suffering by comparing it to the loss of her life or really the loss of a crucial part of her life to death. She mentions 'dying' leaves, has her trees mourning with 'hanging heads condoling' and 'mourning' her and at the end says she 'grieves'. Pathetic fallacy: She shuns the light and beckons the night. Autumn and winter in England are typified by waking up to darkness and being consumed by darkness at around 4pm and so her desire to wallow in the darkness also links with the seasonal death of her trees. C. Lady Mary Wroth D. The tone of this poem is melancholy. E. F. "Come, darkest night, becoming sorrow best" "Darkness doth truly suit with me oppressed" "No marvel that I grieve, who like want see."

The Procession of The Seasons Edmund Spenser

A. This poem follows the cycle of the seasons presenting each as a reflection on human life, from childhood to old ages. Spring is the warrior age of energy and romance, giving way to the mature beauty of Summer that still bursts with energy, but is now more controlled and skillful like a hunter. B. Imagery: In the first stanzas, spring and summer, the visual imagery is connected to flowers and colors. "That freshly budded and new blooms did bear" and "In a thin silken cassock colored green". This represents young age and beauty, these are characteristics of the first stages of life. Then the visual imagery in autumn is connected to a single color, "all in yellow clad". This highlights how beauty is vanishing as time passes by. The tactile imagery in the last season, winter, is connected to cold and the old age of the person. The quote 'faint with cold and weak' highlights that the person is approaching death and beauty has vanished. Personification: All the seasons are represented in the same manner - the way they are dressed and its equivalence to a man's role in the world. Summer is 'jolly' rather than 'lusty', which moves us on from an image of unbridled energy to someone who is enjoying what life has to offer. Shared semantic field of joy and beauty: In the first three stanzas (stanza one: 'freshly budded', 'new blooms', 'sweetly sung'. Stanza two: 'jolly'. Stanza three: 'plenteous', 'laugh, full glad') in stark contrast with the semantic field of pain and misery in the final stanza ('chattering his teeth', 'chill', 'feeble steps', 'faint with cold and weak'). We've got a real contrast between the joyful elements of life and the sudden decline to misery with the winter and old age. C. Edmund Spenser D. The tone of this poem is contemplative. E. From Underwoods F. "That, as some did him love, so others did him fear" "And now would bathe his limbs, with labour heated sore."

Song: Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? Sir John Suckling

A. This poem is about a love sick friend who is hopelessly, and pathetically in love with a girl who is no longer in the picture. The speaker of the poem points out his pointless misery and attempts to convince his friend to get over her and move on with his life. B. Repetition: In stanza one, "why so pale" and in stanza two "why so mute", Suckling repeats these three times to emphasize the pointlessness of his friends misery. Rhetorical questions: In stanza one and two Suckling asks a series of rhetorical questions such as "Looking ill prevail" and "Saying nothing do't? to highlight the lovers idiotic position. C. The friend of the lover D. The tone of the poem is frustration due to the lovers pathetic position and inability to move on, but then shifts into sympathy in the last stanza as the lovers friend attempts to lift his spirits. E. F. "Why so pale and wan. fond lover?" "Why so dull and mute, young sinner?" "Quit, quit, for shame; this will not move." "Nothing can make her; The devil take her!"

Sonnet 61 Michael Drayton

A. This poem is about heartbreak. A man who is asking for a friendly, but clean breakup with his partner; however, there is a clear suggestion that this is the result of something the other party has done. B. Duplicity of the language: When he says 'glad with all my heart' he is trying to convince himself, but is clearly not at all glad about what is happening. Similarly he talks about being 'free', but really is desperate to be with her. Personification: Personification of his emotions. Passion is 'speechless' indicating it is stunned by the recent events of the relationship and so weak it cannot fight back. Faith is 'kneeling by his bed of death' so on the point of disappearing as his belief in his love evaporates and Innocence also seems to be on his way out as he is 'closing up his eyes'. Oxymoron: 'Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows'. This suggest that his lover has broken these wedding vows in some way, with the most obvious interpretation being through cheating. C. Michael Drayton D. The tone of this poem is somber. E. Why So Pale F. "Shakes hands for ever, cancel all our vows." "Now at the last gasp of love's latest breath" "From death to life though mightst him yet recover."

When I Was Fair and Young Queen Elizabeth I

A. This poem is all about aging and the death of her desirability. When she was young she enjoyed being a bit of a heart breaker turning down all sorts of suitors in quite a nasty way; now, she's a bit older and not quite so pretty and she misses the days when the boys were banging down her door B. Repetition: The repetitive last line of each stanza also uses repetition to emphasizes how dismissive Elizabeth was with her suitors. 'Go, go, go' really sends a clear message that they are bothering her and combines with her 'scorn' to paint a not so pretty picture. Rhetorical Questions: Highlight the vast number of spurned suitors at the beginning of the second stanza (lines 5-6). Personification/ Imagery: Love is personified as Cupid who is called a 'proud victorious boy' and doesn't take too kindly to Elizabeth's attitude to it. Love is vicious and decides to 'pluck [her] plumes', which conjures an image of a peacock or some other bird with beautiful tail feathers being forcefully and painfully stripped of its most wonderful feature. This simply means she is losing her beauty as a result of aging, but she feels like this is some sort of karma for her former attitude. C. Queen Elizabeth I D. The tone of this poem is remorse. E. They Flee F. "When I was fair and young, and favour graced me, Of many was I sought their mistress for to be." "Go, go, go, seek some otherwhere; importune me no more"

A Litany In Time Of Plague Thomas Nashe

A. This poem is all about his fear about death. It is written as a prayer as he is desperately hoping he'll be allowed into heaven, but really he is reflecting on the devastating impact of the Black Death and how no one was exempt from its touch thanks to the lack of understanding about what caused this plague. B. Language: 'None' can escape its 'darts' making our death seem like a certainty; it travels 'full swift by' as if it is an unstoppable wind. These associations suggest that humanity has no chance of survival against this mysterious and unexplained disease. Imagery: 'Wrinkles devour' beauty or consumed and distort it, while the strong are reduced to pathetic weaknesses as 'worms feed' upon their flesh with them unable to fight back. These images both have a literal association with the plague as huge blisters often formed on victims making them quite repulsive, while victims were reduced to extremely frail conditions thanks to fever and sickness. Repetition: Repetition of "I am sick, I must die. Lord, have mercy on us! is a desperate plea to a higher power to make things better the next place they go, a plea for salvation and against being damned to hell. C. Thomas Nashe D. The tone of this poem is somber. E. F. "I am sick, I must die" "Lord, have mercy on us!" "Strength stoops unto the grave" "Of beauty from the light retired"

The Man of Life Upright Thomas Campion

A. This poem is all about how to live a contented life. It seems to describe the life of someone who dedicates their existence to God and avoiding the temptations of the world. You could read this as being about a celibate priestly existence or maybe a hermit abandoning all of life's temptations. B. Biblical association: Biblical associations are implemented to give the idea that a godly life seems to be the only way to be unburden with worries. Depression element: The 'only friends' of this man are his morally wonderful thoughts and his wealth and success is achieved only through smug self-satisfaction at being so sodding good all the time. Think about how boring a 'sober inn' would be without enjoyment, getting drunk and making an idiot of yourself. C. Thomas Campion D. The tone of this poem is judgmental. E. F. "The horrors of the deep and terrors of the skies." "His wisdom heavenly things" "The earth his sober inn"

Sonnet 73 William Shakespeare

A. This poem is all about love, but particularly love in association with mortality as it explores the idea of ageing and the effect it has on other's feelings towards you. B. Metaphor: A single day or particularly the light of a single day. If we imagine the sun's cycle from sunrise to sunset as the course of birth through to death, we can see that Shakespeare feels he is coming towards the end and his life is 'fadeth'. When things fade they lose their color and their beauty and this quatrain contains the idea that the blackness of night is gradually taking this away, even as the poem progresses, and Shakespeare is thinking about what will inevitably follow. Repetition: The repetitive nature of these analogies; they all share the same purpose, but add additional detail to Shakespeare's perspective of ageing. First we have the absence of song/joy, then we have fading beauty or relevance and finally we see the loss of the intensity and heat of the flame. Analogy: The final quatrain sees an analogy with a fire. Imagine a fire just beginning and gradually growing as youth, then as it roars and leaps above your wood pile as being mature, then as it ages we see it clinging to smaller bits of wood and just smouldering linking to old age, before finally being extinguished completely representing death. Shakespeare's imagery is clearly filled with sorrow at the passing of his youth as he isn't in anyway nostalgic about his past glories, but here just laments their passing mentioning the 'ashes of his youth'. C. William Shakespear D. The tone of this poem is regret. E. F. "In me thou seest the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie," "That time of year thou mayst in me behold, When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang."

A Mind Content Robert Greene

A. This poem sings the praises of a life without worries and troubles and contrasts the life of a prince and a beggar. B. Contrast: The contrast between the life of a prince and a beggar. It is contradictory to normal thinking; who on earth would rather be a beggar? Greene says 'such minds, such sleep, such bliss' which is a repetitive, continuous rejoicing for this pleasant state of existence that leads to a happy mind, restful sleep and enjoyable life. Alliteration: In the second stanza, the humble lifestyle seem particularly pleasant. 'The homely house that harbours quiet rest' benefits from the soft 'h' sound being repeated to mirror the quietness he then associates. The repetition of 'mirth and music' adds to the impression of 'sweet content'. Language: 'A Mind Content' means a mind that is at ease, relaxed and happy. The state of being content suggests pure satisfaction, needing nothing and not wanting to change a thing. C. Robert Greene D. This poem has a cheerful, upbeat tone. E. F. "Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content" "Obscured life sets down a type of bliss" "A mind content both crown and kingdom is."

A Farewell To The Reader Isabella Whitney

A. This poem uses nature to represent human emotion. The flowers being given represent the poetic voice's heart and love, but there is a calm plea to treat the flowers with respect and not damage them if they are not to the receiver's fancy. She acknowledges that sometimes people don't reciprocate feelings, but there is no need to break another's heart by scorning their affections. B. Contrast: She talks about the 'pain' she has been through as she 'travailed many hours' to reach this position. This indicates dedication and commitment. Humility: She tries to cover her doubt with reasons her love may not be reciprocated. Even when she imagine a reciprocal relationship she still considers the impact of her actions and hopes that her 'presumption' in being so forward with be overlooked and her friends will not 'blame' her for acting contrary to the expectations of society. Analogy: She is the flower presented and although this lover may not value her she believes others will, but not if she is left an emotional wreck, in pieces and spoiled. C. Isabella Whitney D. Uncertainty E. F. "Good reader, now you tasted have And smelt of all my flowers." "I shall no whit be discontent" "God speed her well That did this nosegay make" "To which to get some pain I took, and travailed many hours."

Come Live with me, and be my Love Christopher Marlowe

A. B. C. D. E. F.

Sonnet 54 Edmund Spenser

A. B. C. D. E. F.

The Flowers That on The Banks and Walks Did Grow Aemilia Lanyer

A. B. C. D. E. F.

Song: Spring, The Sweet Spring Thomas Nashe

A. B. C. D. E. F.

Song: To Celia Ben Jonson

A. B. C. Obsessive lover D. The tone leans toward infatuation E. F.

Song: Weep You No More, Sad Fountains Anonymous

A. Could more broadly be understood to be about someone struggling to come to terms with the loss of a loved one. The poem tries to coax the subject into calmness and sooth the tears with the thought that the dead person is now at peace and the weeping pointless. B. Structure: The shape has been deliberately contrived in mirror the fountains mentioned in the title; notice how the writing flows down the page like a tear running down a face. The poem/song is written in a falling pattern, where the lines gradually get smaller, and has a regularly, repetitive rhythm to make it quite like a child's lullaby, appropriate because of the soothing, soft quality of lullabies. Repetition: The chorus. The soothing chorus is almost identical to stanza one, but just prior to this we have another soothing repeated idea: 'Rest you then, rest, sad eyes'. This emphasizes the advice, but also slows the pace so it comes across as caring. Rhetorical Questions: The second stanza uses another rhetorical question to get the mourner to consider the reason behind their weeping. 'Doth not the sun rise smiling/When fair at even he sets?' shows that the sun is able to come back as brilliant as ever after it has gone to sleep/switched shifts with the moon and the suggestion is that time and rest will have the same impact as on the mourners. C. Anonymous D. The tone is consoling and comforting E. Golden slumbers F."Softly, now softly lies Sleeping." "Sleep is a reconciling, A rest that peace begets:"

The Author's Epitaph, Made By Himself Sir Walter Raleigh

A. Expressed through his epitaph, Raleigh expresses his disappointment about how we live and build our lives to only have everything torn down and ripped apart by the cold hands of death. Everything ultimately leads to darkness and silence. Not even the idea of salvation completely convinces him. B. Personification: Time is being personified as a person being lent all the joys and happiness of our youth. "Takes in trust" leads to "Age and dust" as life is given to us only to be ripped away at a later time. C. Sir Walter Raleigh D. The tone of this poem is lamentation due to the demise of his youth and his impending death. E. F. "Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust." "When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days." "And from which earth, and grave, and dust, The Lord shall raise me up, I trust."

Sonnet 75 Edmund Spenser

A. He has the affections of Elizabeth Boyle and it seems they are out for a nice trip to the beach. He writes her name in the sand only for it to be washed away, for which she chastises him for trying to make a mortal become immortal. However, he tells her he will make her last forever in his poetry. B. Personification: The waves (line 2) 'made my pains his prey' we get the idea of it hunting, mostly clearly associated with Death or the Grim Reaper wiping away lives. Symbolism: The waves represent mortality: Boyle will not last forever, but will be swept away by death inevitably. Hyperbole: He is indeed vain, as he claims in this final couplet that they will defeat death while it 'shall all the world [apart from them] subdue'. There love will live forever in his poetry! C. Edmund Spenser D. The attitude set forth by Spenser is one of a man totally and completely in love E. Walshingham/ The Flowers F. "One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves, and washéd it away" "To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your virtues rare shall eternise," "Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew."

From Underwoods Ben Jonson

A. In this poem, Jonson uses the beauty of nature to comment on mortality and how people live their lives. B. Symbolism: The oak tree represents a person who lives a live with no true meaning, and the lily represents a short life lived fully. Alliteration: Alliteration in line 6 to describe the lily creates an upbeat that represents the superior life in comparison to the oak tree. Metaphor: The lily represents a young life. Innocence and purity. C. Ben Jonson D. The tone of this poem is somber. E. F. "In bulk, doth make man better be" "In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be."

What is Our Life? Sir Walter Raleigh

A. In this poem, he positions life as being dedicated to love with joyful moments and judgement from above, drawing similarities between these elements of life and drama, musical interludes and the demanding spectators. B. Rhetorical questions: The opening with a rhetorical question draws us into Raleigh's thoughts and allows him to present the insignificance of life and the unavoidable ending. Alliteration: The use of alliteration throughout the poem are to created a musical effect that coincides with the poems mirth of music. C. Sir Walter Raleigh D. The tone of this poem is bitter. E. Sonnet 54 F. "Only we die in earnest - that's no jest." "Our grave that hide us from the searching sun are like drawn curtains when the play is done." "Heaven the judicious sharp spectator is"

Sonnet 31 Sir Philip Sidney

A. In this poem, the poet finds an unlikely friend in the Moon whose pale complexion makes the poet recognize his own emotions and state of melancholy. B. Personification: The poet personifies the moon to reflect his own emotions. Anything he associates with the Moon's state is clearly how he feels as he talks about his 'fellowship' with it. "With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies!" Rhetorical questions: The poet uses rhetorical questions to contradict and question the concept of constant love. C. Sir Philip Sidney D. The tone of this poem is desperation as the man seeks solace in anything similarly afflicted, even the moon. E. F. "With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies!" "How silently, and with how wan a face!"

Golden Slumbers Thomas Dekker

A. It is about one person (mother or father) dealing with all the worries of another so they can be truly relaxed and serene. B. Structure: The lullaby chorus is repetitive and uses gentle sounds like 'lull' as a way of creating a soothing tune that will help a baby fall asleep. We have a rhyming couplet and then triplet for the chorus, which are all simply one syllable rhymes that reflect the necessary simplicity of a lullaby and are softly read. Imagery: The imagery was supposed to help emphasize the beauty of the baby sleeping and bring upon the innocence of the child. Irony: The irony lies within the third line of each stanza when the parent calls the baby a wanton. A wanton is a naughty child and after the hyperbolic expression of the parents describing the baby, it is a little hard to believe that the kid would be a wanton. C. A parent or someone who is trying to calm a baby. D. The tone is very content and loving E. F." And I will sing a lullaby: Rock them, rock them, lullaby." "Care is heavy, therefore sleep you; You are care, and care must keep you."

Song: Go, Lovely Rose! Edmund Waller

A. It's pretty obvious as this poem gets straight to the point, but this is all about a man wanting to get a girl to drop her knickers and using the most crude analogy with a rose to show how it would be a crime/shame if she doesn't allow the world to make the most of her beauty. B. Symbolism: The rose is usually a symbol of beauty, passion, and romance. In this poem, the rose symbolizes the woman's short life and wasteful virginity. Metaphor: He uses a few flower metaphors in this poem, but other than the rose, he uses a metaphor of a cactus. In the second stanza, he compares the girl to a cactus which means that she springs without an audience and is pretty pointless. Her beauty and use is being wasted. Irony: Calls her a rose which typically is a symbol for passion and romance, but there is no real romance or love here. He is blunt that she is wasting herself by not sleeping with him, yet he calls her a rose. Structure: The structure of the poem is very regular. There is no passion, but a calculated and reasoned expression of desire. C. Edmund Waller D. The tone is angry and frustrated. E. They Flee F. "Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired;" "Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied,"

Walsingham Sir Walter Raleigh

A. The lover is desperate for word of his lover, which the stranger gives him, and then explains that she left him because he got older and together they talk about love and how it's no good and women misuse it. B. Hyperbole: The lover exaggerates the looks of his lover in order to emphasis how young and beautiful she is, unlike himself who is older and less handsome than in his youth. Personification: Love is personified to make you feel a bit of sympathy toward the lover almost being bullied by Love. Love is someone irrational and untrustworthy who will make you happy, but only for a short time. It is personified to emphasize what love really means to the men in this poem. Metaphors: In the last stanza, the lover explains what he believes true love really is using metaphors. It is pretty much a complete contrast to what he had with his lover. Unlike their dying love, he compares love to something warm ("a durable fire") that lasts. C. A desperate lover and a stranger D. The tone is reflective and instructive. E. F."Met you not with my true love by the way as you came?" "Such an angelic face, who like a queen, like a nymph, did appear" "I have lov'd her all my youth; But now old, as you see, Love likes not the falling fruit From the withered tree"

Written The Night Before His Execution Chidiock Tichbourne

A. The night before his execution, Tichbourne reflects on how little his life has been fulfilled, and describes his demise as an inevitable consequence of his birth. B. Oxymoron: Nearly every line holds an oxymoron as Tichbourne is torn between the desperation to find some meaning that his life held, and the depression that he will never be able to complete or satisfy his life or experience what he was meant to. "My youth is gone, and yet I am but young." Repetition: The last line of every stanza. "And now I live, and now my life is done." Reestablishes the point that Tichbourne's live is going to be cut short and he will never be able to fulfill what he expects from life. In his situation it is impossible to drum up any hope, thus every line of thoughts end with a cold reminder of his execution. C. Chidiock Tichbourne D. The tone of the poem is misery as Tichbourne somberly reflects his life and how unsatisfied he is as he faces death the very next morning. E. F. "And now I live, and now my life is done." "I sought my death, and found it in my womb" "The spring is past, and yet it hath not sprung." "My youth is gone, and yet I am but young" "I saw the world, and yet I was not seen"