Quizz 1: Poetry, Form, and the Past

What are features of Old English?

Form and style both allow individual attitudes to come into social play

Poetry must rhyme, function by meter, imagery, symbolism and special diction.

Poetry tells us about

What are some formal elements of poetry?

Etymologies show where meanings join under the utterances of sound—and when they separate, shift, move in new directions

French was spoken starting in 1066 due to the Norman Conquest.

The church and court are key institutions for the making of poems in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

A formal and verbal analysis should

Form has boundaries—acts as interface between author and reader, between self and society

Donne’s poems employ a chief conceit around which his arguments, often for love, develop around complex metaphors

The end of a line is a random choice, whether in metered or open forms

The Renaissance was a period in European culture that saw advances in scholarship, literature, science, and philosophy

What are some features of Robert Herrick's poetry?

What language is "Caedmon's Hymn" written in?

John Donne became Dean of St. Paul's in 1621

Form is weakened by repetitions of words and phrases, refrains, echoes

What was the result of plague in 13th-century England?

What was the Great Vowel Shift?

What is the predominant meter in English poetry?