Metaphysical poetry

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Metaphysical Poetry - page 29
  • You're going to watch a video about metaphysical poetry .
  • Make a wordweb while you watch. 
  • Put "metaphysical poetry" in the centre. 
  • Upload after the video. 

Slide 3 - Slide

Slide 4 - Video

upload your wordweb.

Slide 5 - Open question

Metaphysical poets

  • wanted to understand the relationships between life, truth and to describe them. 
  • time, mortality and God are important themes
  • ultimate message is carpe diem

BBC in our time

Slide 6 - Slide

What is true about metaphysical poetry?
A
It uses rather strange imagery
B
It is highly intellectualised.
C
It contains extremely complicated thought
D
All the answers are correct.

Slide 7 - Quiz

What element do the poems of Andrew Marvell, John Donne, George Herbert, Henry Vaughn have in common?
A
Romance
B
Perfect rhyme scheme
C
Wit
D
Tragedy

Slide 8 - Quiz

Which of the following would NOT be considered a Metaphysical question?
A
What is the chemical composition of water?
B
Does God exist?
C
Is our fate pre-determined?
D
Can there be things that exist that are not in time?

Slide 9 - Quiz

Slide 10 - Slide

Slide 11 - Link

To His Coy Mistress

Had we but world enough and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love’s day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the flood,
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.


My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires and more slow;
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

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timer
1:30
What would the poet do if
he and his girl had enough time?

Slide 13 - Mind map

But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found;
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long-preserved virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust;
The grave’s a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.

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Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may,
And now, like amorous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapped power.
Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Through the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.

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.......while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,...

What is the poet saying to his girl?
A
You are sweating
B
Girl, I'm on fire!
C
Hey girl, you want it too!
D
You're so d*mn hot!

Slide 16 - Quiz

Rather at once our time devour
Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

What is he saying here?
A
I'm hungry.
B
I have a powerful friend
C
You are such a slow-poke!
D
I want it all, and I want it NOW

Slide 17 - Quiz

The "iron gates of life"
is a metaphor.
What for?

Slide 18 - Open question

Make an
"If.........., but........., so........."
Sentence that describes this poem.

Slide 19 - Open question

Question 1
What is coyness?

Slide 20 - Open question

Question 2
What is the lady coy about?

Slide 21 - Open question

3. How many parts is the poem divided into?
A
2
B
3
C
4
D
5

Slide 22 - Quiz

4. What do the rubies in line 6 symbolise?
A
anger / revenge
B
wealth
C
true love / faithfulness
D
precious stones

Slide 23 - Quiz

5. In the first part of the poem, Marvell refers to various parts of his beloved's body. Which does he consider the most important?
A
the heart
B
the lungs
C
the brain
D
the intestines

Slide 24 - Quiz

Question 6
Why does the writer refer to the Ganges?

Slide 25 - Open question

7. What is the conversion of the Jews?
A
Holocaust
B
That the Jews become Christians
C
Judgement day

Slide 26 - Quiz

8. What will take thousands of years?
A
The conversion of the Jews
B
Their love.
C
Him admiring her body
D
A millenium

Slide 27 - Quiz

Question 9:
What is Time's winged messenger?

Slide 28 - Open question

Question 10:
What does the poet say about the girl's virginity?

Slide 29 - Open question

Q8. What does he mean by: and youthful hue sits on thy skin?

Slide 30 - Mind map

Let’s make love!

Slide 31 - Slide

Q 10
Explain the last two lines.

Slide 32 - Open question

Why a renaissance poem?

Slide 33 - Mind map

Slide 34 - Video