Marriage in the 17th century...

...good male/female context for all three year 13 texts...

http://www.phil.muni.cz/angl/thepes/thepes_02_02.pdf

Andrew Marvell: revision sites

Andrew Marvell

• http://www.gradesaver.com/andrew-marvell-poems/
• http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/marvbio.htm
• https://hiddencause.wordpress.com/tag/andrew-marvell/
• http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/marvell-per-newcrits.html
• http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/marvellsociety/category/article/
• http://www.shmoop.com/a-dialogue-between-the-soul-and-body/
• http://www.shmoop.com/to-his-coy-mistress/
• http://www.bachelorandmaster.com/britishandamericanpoetry/the-garden.html

Different types of love

Courtly love: http://www.britannica.com/topic/courtly-love




Pygmalion: Falling in love with your creation (http://www.shmoop.com/pygmalion-myth/)




Neoplatonic love: Beauty is God (http://www.slideshare.net/mjarry/neoplatonism)




Petrarchan Lover: Unrequited Love (see below)

The Petrarchan Lover suffers from unrequited love—the love is not returned or reciprocated, loves from afar. Often the object of love doesn’t even know someone is pining for her.

Idealizes—falls in love with an ideal, a vision of perfection, rather than a human being with strengths AND weakness. Falls in love with an idea—an idea of a person, the idea of love.

Idolizes—Turns the lover into an idol, an object of worship. Puts the lover on a pedestal (she’s high above/he’s a lowly peon), worships her from afar, compares her to a goddess or something holy.

This is not truly love. This is infatuation.

Infatuation—in love with the idea of love rather than a real person/ is in love with love/ is in love with longing rather than having

Language—Devices

• uses blazon to catalogue physical beauty and physical characteristics (similes and metaphors)
• uses conceit—exaggerated metaphors
• uses elaborate, flowery, exaggerated, embellished, artificial language
  Petrarchan love is not a sexual love.

Shakespeare on Lust

SONNET 129

The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight,
Past reason hunted, and no sooner had
Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait
On purpose laid to make the taker mad;
Mad in pursuit and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
   All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
   To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.

Simon Schama on John Donne

John Donne counts as literary context for Marvell, so watch this and make notes!

Philosophy in a Nutshell

Huge philosophical ideas squeezed into tiny little nutshells:
http://curiosophy.org/2014/03/19/philosophy-in-a-nutshell/

Shakespeare and the Metaphysical poets: A04

How Marvell's contemporaries made sense of both the tangible and intangible world around them.


http://crossref-it.info/articles/category/5/the-world-of-shakespeare-and-the-metaphysical-poets-1540-1660

Good AO3 quote about ambiguity

 

'A characteristic of the conceit, indeed, from Donne to Traherne...is that it lays incompatibles side by side, that it unites the apparently unrelated and indeed the logically contradictory, that it obtains its effects by forcing things different in kind on to the same plane of reference. In this broad sense we may speak of the lyric of conflict, whose characteristics are an awareness in the poet's mind of the new and troubling (especially the new scientific discoveries) as well as the old and familiar, and an effort to fit them into a common scheme...'

 

Puritanism and Revolution, Christopher Hill

Ambiguity essay

"Ambiguity: the bastard child of creativity and
cowardice." How far and in what ways do you agree with
this statement? Refer to Marvell and Ford in your writing.


OR.


"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies." Discuss, with reference to both writers.

Poetic techniques: revision 1

Key terms you should know by heart, and recognise easily:
http://www.shmoop.com/poetry/how-to-read-poem/poetry-glossary.html


More complex terms geared towards Shakespeare and renaissance drama:
http://shakespeare-w.com/english/shakespeare/terms.html

Actively responding to AO3 quotes

1.  AGREE with and BUILD upon the argument made by adding your own quotations in support of the argument

 This argument is clearly supported / demonstrated / shown to be true in the text when Victor says:'...'


2.  ARGUE AGAINST the argument put forward by offering an alternative argument of your own



 This argument is contradicted, however, by...

 This argument breaks down, however, when one considers that...

3. Accept some aspects of the argument, but MODIFY or COMPLICATE it in some way


 While the notion that...seems acceptable, the idea that...is complicated by the fact that...

 While it seems reasonable to argue that...there are clear grounds to argue against the notion
 that...because...

Marvell: a ridiculous number of enlightening essays

Thanks, praise and possibly some biscuits to Hannah for sharing this treasure-chest of essays on Marvell. Thank you Hannah!


Scroll down to Marvell...




http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/sevenessay.htm#marvell

Platonic Love: a simple guide

This is pretty succinct... and compares with Freud's Eros.

http://faculty.frostburg.edu/phil/forum/Love.htm

Marvell according to the internet

Literature students (of varying ability) comment on all of his poems here:

http://genius.com/search?q=marvell

Add your own comments to help other students around the world...

The Metaphysical poets: In Our Time

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00cbqhq

You can quote for A03 and A04...

A modern take on what it means to be human

This is worth a read because:

a) you can spot similarities and differences with all the other attempts to explain our humanity (Plato, Freud, etc), and

b) it's rather lovely.

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015/01/andrew-marr-it-urge-create-makes-us-human

Freud vs Plato

Id, Ego and Superego? Or Reason, Emotion and Appetites?
Here's a good article that explores the similarities.


http://www.electrummagazine.com/2013/05/dreams-and-the-psyche-through-an-ancient-lens/


One important thing to remember is that these urges existed before we had names for them. The names are just attempts to categorise and explain them. So there is no 'right' interpretation, only interpretations that can explain our behaviour more or less effectively than others.