Sophisticated A/A* quality notes and analysis for AQA Love Poems pre-1900: Donne's 'The Flea' and Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress' - covering EVERY assessment objective required for A Level English Literature, including key quotations, themes and methods, context and critics! Comparisons are made to...
Key ideas about Key techniques/ features about love Comparison with Comparison with Comparison with Context (AO3) Critics’ views (AO5)
love (AO1) (AO2) other poems (AO4) ‘Tess of the ‘The Go-Between’
D'Urbervilles’ (AO4)
(AO4)
Seduction, Metaphysical poem with first ‘To His Coy Alec Fleas were a -Amanda Boyd: ‘Though
six lines in each stanza made Mistress’ relentless popular subject for there is only one speaker, her
sinless and ribald humour. Since
from three rhyming couplet and -both attempts to silent voice booms…In her
unshameful 17th-century society
ending with a tercet, which metaphysical seduce Tess refusal to be swayed by his
sex mirrors his content as three viewed sex as the
tactics, she causes him to go
poems and and the mingling of blood,
distinctly separate entities – back and rework the way he
display woman killing the flea’s
man, woman and flea – bloodsucking nature makes his argument.’
become one. erudition the flea is
reminiscent had huge
possibilities as a -T S Eliot appreciated Donne
Conceit as a means of sexual of Tess kill risqué metaphor. for his ability to select the
coercion and denied sexual Alec in ‘image of absolute necessity’
pleasure - factual, logical and chapter 56 (importance of the precise
persuasive argument and necessary
image)
Pun on male erection ‘The Scrutiny’ ‘[Alec] being No surprise Donne
‘pampered swells with one your husband makes bold attempts
-twisted logic to separate sexual -Even though Donne’s
blood made of two’ in nature and conceit has lost its
+selfish pleasure from
-synecdoche symbolises union not I’ marriage, in persuasiveness and
between speaker and his attitudes opposition to religious seductive power, it perhaps
mistress ideas during the leads the reader to wonder
-plaintive though light tone turbulence of the Civil
War and the whether he is more
creates humour Puritanism of enamoured with the artistry of
Cromwell’s his own conceits than the
Commonwealth woman
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