Valediction
Donne describes this scene in the first stanza of Valediction.
What is a deathbed?
The entire poem, "Death Be Not Proud" is and example of this type of descriptive language.
What is personification?
"To the Virgins:" is characterized as this type of poetry, in which readers are encouraged to make the most out of their life.
What is Carpe Diem or Seize the Day?
This animal swoops by and accuses Whitman of his gab and loitering.
What is a spotted hawk?
This term deals with the questions that go beyond the sciences and the physical.
What is Metaphysical?
She is John Donne's wife.
Who is Anne?
Donne exclaiming death will die is an example of this literary device.
What is a paradox?
This is the name of the author of "To the Virgins."
Who is Robert Herrick?
"I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway ______."
What is sun?
John Donne found himself imprisoned for this crime.
What is marrying underaged.
In Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, John Donne employs a metaphor of a gold to describe this.
What is true love or the connection between lovers?
"From rest and ______, which but they pictures be,
Much pleasure, then from the, much more must flow,"
What is sleep?
The author employs a metaphor of a rising and setting sun to imply this.
What is a lifespan?
Whitman sounds this over roofs of the world.
What is a barbaric yawp?
In the metaphysical world, a conceit is a type of this.
What is a figure of speech?
In Valediction: Forbidding Morning, Donne employs the metaphor of a flood to describe this.
Lover's tears.
"Thou are ______ to fate, chance, kins and desperate men,"
What is slave?
"Gather ye ___________ while ye may."
What are rosebuds?
"Song of Myself" Whitman writes that if you look for me you could find me here.
What is the dirt or grass?
John Donne uses the imagery of this geometric tool to draw an expanded circle of love for his wife.
What is a compass?
"If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin ___________ are two..."
What are compasses?
Donne says two things make us sleep better than thy stroke. Name one.
"That age is best which is the _________,
When youth and blood are warmer."
If you fail to find Whitman at first, he says he will do this.
What is stop and wait for you?
True or False:
Metaphysical conceit implies keen analysis, powerful intelligence and unusual comparisons.
What is True.