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Read to discover the speaker’s
feelings about the creature he
pursues,
~ a courtier, Wyatt was expected to compose songs, battle for the king, dance, joust
in tournaments, and carry on intrigues with the ladies. According to traditional gossip, this poem is about Wyatt’s longing for Anne Boleyn, a beautiful young woman
at court.When he realized that King Henry ~ also fancied Anne, Wya~ ga~e up the
pursuit to whoever else wanted to"hunt" her. In the poem below, it is thought that
the deer with the eweled collar refers to Anne.
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Whoso list° to hunt, I lraaow where is an hind-°
But as for me. alas, I may no more.
The vain travail° hath wearied me so sore
I am of them that farthest cometh behind, ~
Yet may I, by no means, my wearied mind
Draw from the deer. but as she fleeth afore,
Fainting I follow. I lea~ce offtherefore.
Since in a net I seek to hold the wind,
1. whoso list: whoever
desires, hind: female deer.
3. travail: hard work.
%rbo list her hunt, I put him out of doubt.°
As well as I, may spend his time in vain.
And graven with diamonds in letters plain
There is written, her fair neck round about"NoIi me tangere, for Caesar’s I am,
And ~ild for to hold, though I seem tame:0
9. put him out of doubt:
assure him.
I~ ~ Speaker The sl~eaKer Naces himself last in the hunt. What
does this say about his view of himself7
0 ~ Drawing Inferences What can -ou infer from the image
afdiamonds?
t/iewing and Interpreting How well does this ~ortrait of Anne Boleyn
represent the woman described in the opera? Explain.
Anne Boleyn (I 6th centuryl by an
unknown artist. Oil on panel.
National Portrait Gallery. London.
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by Edmun~ Spenser
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Build Background
Read with a Purpose
[lead to learn why the speaker thinks
love can bend the rules of nature.
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This sonnet was part of a larger group of sonnets known as the Amoretti("little
love poems’), published in 1595. Spenser wrote these sonnets to his wife, [lizabeth.
The poems are about their courtship.
My love is like to ice. and I to fire;
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat? I~
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
Is not delayed° by her heart frozen cold,
But that I burn much more in boiling sweat,
And feel my flames augmented manifold?°
What more miraculous thing may be told
That fire which all thing melts, shduld harden ice.
And ice which is congealed° with senseless cold.
Should ldndle fire by wonderful device?°
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
~aat it can alter all the course of kind? ~
6. delayed: tempered.
8. augmented manifold:
increased in many ways.
11. congealed: thickened.
12, device: trick.
14. kind: nature.
~~ Speaker WhydoyouthinkthesDeakerasksdirect
ouestions of the reader?
~~ Drawing Inferent~ Notetheturn orshiftinthought,
in the final couplet. Based on this shift, what can you infer about the poet’s message?
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SONNET 75
by E~mund
Read with a Purpose
Build Background
Read to discover what happens in the
exchange between the speaker and the
woman he loves,
In this sonnet, Spenser uses the image of the sea and its eternal tides to
emphasize the cyclical nature of life and the immortality brought by his
poetry.
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,°
But came the waves and washbd it away;
Again I wrote it with a second hand, Q
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey,
’W~m man~’ said she, "that doest in vain assay,°
A mortal thing so to immortalize,
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke° my nm-ne be wip&d out likewise?’ ~
"Not so;’ quod° I, "let baser things devise°
IO To die in dust, but you shaB. live by fame:
Myverse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name.
Where whenas death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew?’ ~
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~ ~ Speaker Why do you think Spenser uses two voices in
this poem?
~) ~ Dr awing Infereil~es In the ~oem,the male speaker
wants to immortalize his love. Why does he think she is worthy of fame?
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Read with a Purpose
Read to find out what promises the
shepherd makes to his beloved.
Build Background
Seventeenth-century London was growing rapidly. At the beginning of the century, the city’s
population swelled to 220,000 and pollution
was an increasing problem. Not far from the
city’s borders lay the countryside, a refuge from
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the trials of urban life. Perhaps itis not surprising
then that city dwellers enjoyed and sought out
pastoral poetry, music, and painting.
Probably the most famous of the English pastorals, Marlowe’s poem is also part of the earpe diem
tradition, a call to"seize the day" by living life to
the fullest. This poem has often been set to music,
and several poets have written answers or sequels
to it. Sir Walter Raleigh’s reply is the most famous.
Young Man Leaning /
miniature by Nicholas Nilliard
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove°
]~hat valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull,
15 Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold.
And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.°
A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs,
And ff these pleasures may thee move,
2O Come live with me, and be my love. ~)
And I will make thee beds of roses,
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle,°
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
The shepherd swains° shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning.
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me, and be my love.
2. prove: experience.
8. madrigals: complicated songs for several voices.
11. kirtle: archaic word meaning "dress;’ "gown:’ or "skit t Y
21. swains: yomag boys.
0 ~ Understanding Inverted Word Order Why
does Marlowe invert the word order in line 2?
(~ ~ Pastoral Poems What promised gifts seem
[east likely to be possessed by real shepherds?
Vocabulary melodious (muh LOH dee uhs) adj.: producing
pleasant sounds.
fragrant (FRAY gruhnt) adj.: sweet smelling.
embroidered (ehm BROY duhrd) v. used as adj.: ornamented with
needlework or as if with needlework.
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Read with a Purpose
Read the following poem to see if the nymph accepts the shepherd’s offer.
If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd’s tongue,
¯ hese pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love.
But Time drives flocks from field to fold,°
When rivers rage and rocks grow cold,
And Phflomel° becometh dumb; ~)
The rest complains of cares to come.
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Nay belt of straw and ivy buds,
2by coral clasps and amber studs,
All these in me no means can move
2O To come to thee and be thy love.
But could youth last and love still breed,
Had joys no date, nor age no need,
~2hen these delights my mind might move
To live with thee and be thy love.
The flowers do fade, and wanton° fields
To wayward winter reckoning yields;
A honey tongue, a heart of gall°
Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall.
Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses,
Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies.
Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,
In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
5. fold: pen where sheep are kept in Winter.
7. Philomel: the nightingale.
9. wanton: luxuriant.
11. gall: bitter substance.
~) ~ Understanding Inverted Word
Order How would the rhyme and meter of the poem be affected ifthis
line were in normal word order?
TheHirelingshepherd(1851) by William Holman Itunt.
Manchester Art Gallery, UK.
Vocabulary folly (FAHL ee) n.: foolishness.
~) ~ Pastoral Poems What season does the
does she use such harsh language in
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd 279
by Rober~ Herrick
Read with a Purpose
Read this poem to identify the reasons
the speaker gives to "seize the day."
Build Background
Herrick and Marvell both used a graceful and polished style to write about love,
pleasure, and honor. Herrick, a priest, addresses all young women in"To the
Virgins, to Make Much of Time;’while Marvell argues that even immoral behavior
while alive is preferable to being good but dead.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, 0
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he’s a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he’s to setting.
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That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still° succeed the former.
Then be not coy,° but use your time;
And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.° O
O~ Paraphrasing Howwouldyourestatethis
famous opening line in your own words?
~~ Carl;eDiem Whatimagesdoesthespeakerdraw
from the natural world to describe how quickly one’s youth passes?
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Spring (1595) by [ucas van
Valckenborch. Private Collection
12. still: always.
13. coy: cold; inaccessible;
aloof.
16. tarry: delay; linger.
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Had we but world° enough, and time,
This coyness,° Lady, were no c~n-ne.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our Iong love’s day.
5 Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber° would complain.° I would
Love you ten years before the Flood,°
And you should, ffyou please, refuse
10 Till the conversion of the Jews.°
My vegetable° love should grow
Vaster than empires and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
!5 Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, Lady, you deserve this state,°
20 Nor would I love at lower rate. ~
But at my back I always hear
Time’s winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
25 Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long-preserved virginity,
And your quaint honor turn to dust,
3o And into ashes all my lust:
1. world: geographica! space.
2. coyness: reluctance to make
a commitment.
7. Humber: mud@river in
Marve!l’s hometown of Hull;
here, ironically compared to the
grand Ganges in India.
complain: u~er complaints
about not being loved.
8. Flood: Biblical flood,
described in Genesis.
10. conversion of the Jews:
Christians once believed that
al! Jews would be converted to
Christianity immediately before
the Last Judgment.
11. vegetable: plantlike; having
the power to grow very large,
like oak trees.
19. state: ceremony.
~ ~ Paraphrasing Paraphrase what the speaker says he would do
to demonstrate his love, if he had all the time in the world.
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