"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
Donne describes this scene in the first stanza of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."
What is a deathbed?
The entire poem "Death Be Not Proud" is an example of this type of descriptive language.
What is personification?
"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" is characterized as this type of poetry, in which readers are encouraged to make the most out of their life.
What is Carpe Diem?
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, to Make Much of Time."
Who is Robert Herrick?
Fill in the blank:
"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 a minor without her father's consent?
In "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," John Donne employs a metaphor of gold to describe this.
What is true love or the connection between lovers?
Fill in the blank:
"From rest and ______, which but they pictures be,
Much pleasure, then from thee, 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 sound this "barbaric ______" over roofs of the world.
What is "yawp"?
In the metaphysical world, a conceit is a type of ______.
What is a figure of speech?
In "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," Donne employs the metaphor of a flood to describe this.
Lover's tears.
Fill in the blank:
"Thou art ______ to fate, chance, kings and desperate men"
What is slave?
Fill in the blank:
"Gather ye ___________ while ye may."
What are rosebuds?
In "Song of Myself, 52," 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?
Fill in the blank:
"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.
What is poppy (opium/drugs) or charms (magic; hypnotism).
Fill in the blank:
"That age is best which is the _________,
When youth and blood are warmer;"
What is first?
If you fail to find Whitman at first, he says he will do this.
What is stop and wait for you?
While "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is a poem encouraging his wife not to weep in his absence, John Donne uses this image in the first stanza to illustrate the ultimate farewell.
What is a deathbed or a funeral?