recap literature

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

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longer test questions

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we're going to read a poem and analyze it

we are going to answer some more in-depth questions that require longer answers

please read sonnet 'Whoso list to hunt'
What type of poem is this?

What is the theme of the sonnet 'Whoso list to hunt?'

1. mortality
2. love
3. beauty
4. youth

Whoso list to hunt
to whom is the poem addressed? Who is the speaker?

Explain in which (literary) period this was (most likely) written

point out the metaphor(s) used in this poem

Is there a break of thought?

The raven himself is hoarse

That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan

Under my battlements. Come, you spirits

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,

And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full

Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;

Stop up the access and passage to remorse,

(...)

You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,

And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,

That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,

Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,

To cry 'Hold, hold!'

The raven himself is hoarse

That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan

Under my battlements. Come, you spirits

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,

And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full

Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;

Stop up the access and passage to remorse,

(...)

You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night,

And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,

That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,

Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,

To cry 'Hold, hold!'

- who is this?

What kind of language does the character use?

liteary devices?