17 th Century & Metaphysical Poetry Review
Presentation Requirements 1. Perform (overall judgment by Mr. Kirk – have the students captured the tone or “voice” of the poem? Yes or no?) 2. Explain meaning (Y/N) 3. Metaphysical topic (Y/N) 4. Philosophical “answer” to the topic (Y/N) 5. Is this topic still a source of wonder today? How are people searching for the answer?
Test Wednesday, February 6 Part 1 “History” Introductory note handout 10 Part 2 Poems - Name the poem described Part 2 – Terms Matching (10) apostrophe, conceit, epic, epigram, carpe diem, metaphysical poetry, paradox, prose, sonnet, symbol
Song page 422 Ellis Topic – Love Meaning - Never lose your faith in love. There may be negatives but the positives will balance it out.
Valediction… Kurnath Topic : Love Meaning: When you marry someone, your love with them is eternal. You shouldn’t be sad if you have to part or face death because there will always be a piece of each other left with you.
HS 10 (Monica) Topic- Death Meaning- In the poem John Donne is talking to death. He is saying how he is not afraid to die because of his religion. He believes the afterlife will be much better than is earth life, and he knows he will live on spiritually after he dies.
Meditation 17 (Harley) Topic : Why are we here and what is the meaning of life. Meaning : He says “no man is an island entire of itself” meaning no man can survive on his own. Everyone is a part of civilization and we are all connected somehow. While we are alive we must stick together.
On My 1 st Son (JP) Topic: Death, Loss, and Love Meaning: “Good Bye my son, you were the greatest thing I ever accomplished and I love you”. “I will never love anything again like I loved you.
Song: to Celia Christiana Topic: True Love Meaning: The guy is writing a love letter to his lover, Celia. He wants to show her that his love for her will last forever.
To His Coy Mistress (Cooper + Cam) Topic- Life/Time Meaning- Life and your youth can be gone in the blink of an eye so enjoy and get the most out of it as you can.
To the Virgins… Rizzo Topic- Meaning-
Song (Suckling) (Jill) Topic- Love Meaning If someone doesn’t love you back then you shouldn’t let them bring you down even more, just move on with your own life and try not to bring yourself down. Acting down and mute will not win them back.
Freeze Tag (Christian) Topic: Life Meaning: Time flies, so you should seize every moment, especially while you’re still young. Similar to Carpe Diem.
New Beginnings (Kyle) Topic: To restart the world due to the absence of ability to fix it, due to the intensity of the problem that states that there is too much pain, suffering, separation, too few happy endings, fighting, and too acute of an understanding in regards to this world. Meaning: Life is what you make of it. If the world seems to be full of negative situations, so be it. Life is a balance of opposites. Even though Chapman states that we need to work towards a new beginning, we should simply do that with ourselves, if necessary. One can only change their selves, which in turn might change others, but that’s their choice.
Sonnet XIX (Victor) Topic: Meaning:
Sonnet VII (Rasmus) Topic: Time Meaning: Milton says that time flies by way too fast, but to be patient because God has a path in life for everyone.