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"Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,
And wild for to hold, though I seem tame"
-SIR THOMAS WYATT (whoso list to hunt)
-Noli me tangere = dont touch me
-Christ said this when he had risen from the dead.
"Draw from the deer, but as she feelth afore,
Fainting I follow. I leave off, therefore, Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.
Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt"
-SIR THOMAS WYATT (whoso list to hunt)
-pun on the word "dear" => deer
- Hes leaving what he considers to be an impossible hunt
"Let no one touch me," she bore written with diamonds and topazes around her lovely neck. "It has please my Caesar to make me free"
-PETRARCH (rima, 190)
-Mystical vision has turned into a vision of loss. he cant own her, he can only pursue her.
"And the sun had already turned at midday; my eyes were tired by looking but not sated, when I fell into the water, and she disappeared."
PETRARCH (rima, 190)
-Petrarch's admission to himself that his possession of Laura was nothing but a dream
"Me lusteth no longer rotten boughs to climb."
SIR THOMAS WYATT (farewell love)
1st interpretation: no longer desire to clime rotten boughs- Ive had it with chasing women

2nd interpretation: haven’t given up. Im just not going to pursue the rotten women anymore
"When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall,
"And she caught me in her arms long and small,
Therewithal sweetly did me kiss
And softly said, "Dear heart, how like you this?"
SIR THOMAS Wyatt (they flee from me
-reminiscing about a time someone stripped and pleased him sexually)
"But since that I so kindely am served,
I fain would know what she hath deserved."
SIR THOMAS WYATT (they flee from me)
-Hes getting what he deserved because love is missing
-Women that once came to him flee from him
"Diverse thy death doo diversely bemoan.
Some that in presence of that lively head.
Lurked, whose breasts envy with hate had sowne,
Yield Cesars tears upon Pompeius head."
HENRY HOWARD SURREY (diverse thy death)
-Octave starts with diverse which means disunity with those who mourned of Wyatt. There were different approaches most of them were negative
-Pompeii died and Caesar had these tears > classical illusion Everyone crying for Wyatt had hypocritical tears too
"A hand that taught what might be said in rhyme, t
that reft Chaucer the glory of his wit
A mark the which, unperfited for time
Some may approach, but never none shall hit."
HENRY HOWARD SURREY (diverse thy death -poem about wyatt)
-Wyatt (supposedly replaced Chaucer as England's greatest poet)
-this elegy can be characterized as an act of fidelity that depicts Wyatt in the terms that he used
"Thus for our guilt, this jewel have we lost;
The earth his bones, the heavens possess his ghost."
HENRY HOWARD SURREY (diverse thy death - poem about Wyatt)
"this jewel"refers to Wyatt and is also a reference to the seven eyed jewel of the Holy Spirit's 7 gifts)
"Each noble heart: a worth guide to bring
Our English youth by travail (labor) unto fame."
HENRY HOWARD SURREY (diverse thy death)
- Surrey is one of the mentioned english youth.
"There is no art delivered to making that hath not the works of nature for his principal object, without which they could not consist, and on which they so depend, as they become actors and players as it were, of what nature will have set forth."
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Defense of poesy)
-According to Sydney there are three important was to write poetry: 1) idea 2) for conceit (process by which you take the
idea and turn it into a metaphor) 3) text, or words
"So as he goeth hand in hand with nature, not enclose within the narrow warrant of her gifts, but freely ranging only within the zodiac of his own wit."
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Defense of poesy)
-the poet is an inventor, a “little god” who can make things out of nothing
"Poesy therefore is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in the word mimesis - that is to say a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth to speak metaphorically, a speaking picture - with this end, to teach and delight"
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Defense of poesy)
-Poets write poetry to inspire us to imitate the ideas in their poem***
--the aim of poetry: to teach and to delight (those are the two aims of the poet)
"Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow
Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburned brain"
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Astrophil and Stella, poem 1)
-hes been looking into Penelope's eyes so long that they sunburned his brain
"I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe"
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Astrophil and Stella, poem 1)
-he is trying to write poems to show how pathetic he is
"Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
Biting my trewant pen, beating myself for spite,
"Fool," said my muse to me, "look in thy heart and write."
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Astrophil and Stella, poem 1)
-Dont go around imitating other people, write what is in your heart
"I saw and liked, I liked but loved not,
I loved, but straight did not what Love decreed;
At length to Love's decrees, I forced, agreed,"
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Astrophil and Stella, poem 2)
-shows stages he came to love Stella, Unlike Petrarch Astrophel did not love Stella at first sight. It was a gradual process that he came to love her.
"Is gone, and now like slave-born Muscovite,
I call it praise to suffer tyranny;
And now employ the remnant of my wit.
To make myself believe that all is well,
While with a feeling skill I paint my hell."
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Astrophil and Stella, poem 2)
-an example of him employing his erected wit which foreshadows what will happen through the rest of the sonnet sequence.
"Rich in the treasure of deserved renown,
Rich in the riches of a royal heart,
Rich in those gifts which give th'eternal crown;
Who though most rich in these and every part,
Which make the patents of true worldly bliss,
Hath no misfortune, but that Rich she is."
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Astrophil and Stella, poem 2)
-Penelope is rich in beauty
- She is married to Lord Rich
"Of lover's ruin some sad tragedy:
I am not I; pity the tale of me."
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Astrophil and Stella, Poem 45)
-tale: unintentional pun = penis

-pity this tale of me” pun on the word “tale”, he’s not getting any action.
"Let Virtue have that Stella's self; yet thus,
That Virtue but that body grant to us."
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Astrophil and Stella, Poem 52)
-He’s saying let virtue have her soul, I just want her body
-He doesn’t care about her soul, just her body
"Who will in fairest book of Nature know
How virtue may best lodged in beauty be,
Let him but learn of Love to read in thee,"
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Astrophil and Stella, Poem 71)
-Stella is compared to a book, she is so beautiful she draws in the lover
-Metaphor: Describing Stella as a book, reading the book of Stella.
- The virtuous book of Stella’s soul.
"But ah," Desire still cries, "give me some food."
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Astrophil and Stella, Poem 71)

-sexual meaning...?
"Well, begone, begone I say,
Lest that Argus' eyes pereive you."
O unjustest fortune's sway,
Which can make me thus to leave you,
And from louts to run away."
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Astrophil and Stella, Eleventh Song)

-Poem about how he sneaks over to her house at night and speaks to her through the window
-Stella says get out of here before my husband see’s you.
"That in my woes for thee thou art my joy,
And in my joys for thee my only annoy."
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Astrophil and Stella, Poem 108)
-Final couplet in, and best summary of Astrophil and Stella
-Joy to see you. Joy to my heart.
"The which vouchsafe O goddesse to accept,
Amongst thy deerest relicks to be kept."
EDMUND SPENSER (Amoretti, Sonnet 22 - lent poem)
His songs are religious relics he hopes she will accept
"This holy season fit to fast and pray,
Men to devotion ought to be inclynd:
Therefore, I lykewise on so holy day"
EDMUND SPENSER (Amoretti, Sonnet 22 - lent poem)
-The holy season is lent; the holy day is Ash Wednesday
*calendrical symbolism
"The weary yeare his race now having run,
The new begins his compast course anew:
With shew of morning mylde he hath begun,"
EDMUND SPENSER (Amoretti, Sonnet 62 - new year poem)
This poem was written on new years
*Calendrical symbolism
"So let us love, deare love, lyke as we ought,
Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught."
EDMUND SPENSER (Amoretti, Sonnet 66 - easter poem)
-This is the lesson of easter
"Now night is come, now soone her dissaray"
EDMUND SPENSER (Epithalamion Sonnet 66 - marriage poem)
-when night falls...
"If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Sonnet 116)
-means if love isn't true then this poem never existed
"In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name"
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Sonnet 127)
-Beautiful, equated with blond hair and coloring
-Black hair and dark coloring was equated with ugliness
"If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;"
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Sonnet 127)
-Shakespeare is making fun of Petrarchism where ladies have golden hair.
“If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th’ other do.”
JOHN DONNE (A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning)

-if there souls are separate they are like the feet of a compass, his lovers soul if the fixed food in the center and his the foot that moves around it
-there relationship is both spiritual and physical
"And since at such times, miracles are sought,
I would have that age by this paper taught
What miracles we harmless lovers wrought."
JOHN DONNE (The Relic)
This defines the purpose of hte poem
The paper means the poem itself...?
"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Might and dreadful, for thou art not so;"
JOHN DONNE (Sonnet 10)
Death likes to think of himself as powerful and terrifying, and indeed some people have called him that, but he is not so in truth.
“ For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me."
JOHN DONNE (Sonnet 10)
Death thinks that he is "overthrowing" men when he takes them, that is, conquering, vanquishing, defeating, ruining, causing to fall. Instead, and this here is the "Holy" conceit of the sonnet, a very Christian concept, he does not cause them to fall, but helps them to rise—death is the means by which man finds Resurrection (literally, "rising again"), eternal life and immortality through Christ in heaven.
"One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die."
JOHN DONNE (Sonnet 10)
After death, the after life will be eternal and never ending
"That when a fool's eye lighteth on a gem,
His earthly soul may covet theirs, not them.
Like pictures, or like books' gay coverings, made
For laymen, are all women thus arrayed;
Themselves are mystic books, which only we
(Whom their imputed grace will dignify)
Must see revealed"
JOHN DONNE (Elegy 19. His Mistress Going to Bed)
-compares women to mystic books
"To taste whole joys. Gems which you women use
Are like Atlanta's balls, cast in men's views."
JOHN DONNE (Elegy 19. His Mistress Going to Bed)
- Women's gems are like golden apples (Atlanta's Balls)
"Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare,
Where we almost, nay more than married are.
This flea is you and I, and this
Our marriage bed and marriage temple is.."
JOHN DONNE (The Flea)
-three lives within the flea: his, hers, and the fleas
- saying don't kill it because our lives are within it.
-They are not actually married but are married within the flea because their blood is mingled.
"For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love,
Or Chide my palsy, or my gout.."
JOHN DONNE (The Canonization)
The speaker asks his addressee to be quiet, and let him love. If the addressee cannot hold his tongue, the speaker tells him to criticize him for other shortcomings (other than his tendency to love)
(Personal Sanctity)
"Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still
Litigious men, which quarrels move, Though she and I do love."
JOHN DONNE (The Canonization)
Soldiers still find wars and lawyers still find litigious men, regardless of the emotions of the speaker and his lover.
(Proof of Miracles)
"Countries, towns, courts: Beg from above A pattern of your love"
JOHN DONNE (Canonization)
All those who hear their story will invoke the lovers, saying that countries, towns, and courts "beg from above / A pattern of your love!"
-pattern of love to imitate- what they do when they pray to the saints
-veneration of saints
"The long love that in my thought doth harbor,
And in mine heart doth keep his residence,
Into my face presseth with bold pretense
And therein campeth, spreading his banner
She that me learneth to love and suffer
And will that my trust and lust's negligence
Be reined by reason, shame, and reverence,
With his hardiness taketh displeasure.
Wherewithal unto the heart's forest he fleeth,
Leaving his enterprise with pain and cry."
SIR THOMAS WYATT, (The long love that doth in my harbor)pg. 594
"Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show,
That the dear She might take some pleasure of my pain,
Pleasure might cause her read, reading might maker her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain,"
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Astrophil and Stella, poem 1) This first poem represents his scheme or purpose of what he is doing in the sonnet sequence.
"A Strife is grown between Virtue and Love,
While each pretends that Stella must be his:
Her eyes, her lips, her all, saith Love, do thsi,
Since they do wear his badge, most firmly prove.
But Virtue thus that title doth disprove;
That Stella (O dear name) that Stella is
That virtuous soul, sure heir heavenly bliss;"
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Sonnet 52)
?
"Peace, I think that some give ear;
Come no more, lest I get anger."
Bliss, I will my bliss forebear
Fearing, sweet you to endanger, but my soul shall harbor there.
SIR PHILLIP SYDNEY (Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet on pg 991)
"As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say
The breath goes now, and some say, No;"
JOHN DONNE (A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning)
- the parting of two lovers like Donne and his wife is likened to the death of a virtuous man.
-when two virtuous lovers part, there is no pain, because they know that each will be true to the other, even when they are apart.
"To make their souls, at the last busy day,
Meet at this grave, and make a little stay?"
JOHN DONNE (The Relic pg. 1280)

? find meaning
"All women adore us, and some men; And since at such times, miracles are sought;
I would have that age by his paper taught
What miracles we harmless lovers wrought."
I would have that age by this paper taught
What miracles we harmless lovers wrought."
JOHN DONNE (The Relic pg. 1280)

? find meaning
paper = poem...?
"Which nature injured by late law, sets free: These miracles we did: but now alas,
All measures and all language I should pass,
Should I tell what a miracle she was"
JOHN DONNE (The Relic pg. 1280)

? find meaning
"Until I labor, I in labor lie,
The foe ofttimes having the foe in sight,
Is tired with standing though he never fight."
John Donne(Elegy 19, pg.1283)
? Find meaning
"Now off with those shoes, and then safely treat
In this love's hallowed temple, this soft, bed."
JOHN DONNE (Elegy 19, pg. 1283 ?find meaning)
"And dost not only fear lest I allow
My love to saints and angels things divine,
But in thy tender jealousy dost doubt
Lest the world, flesh, yea devil put thee out."
JOHN DONNE (Holy Sonnet 17)
God has to worry about him rejecting his religion and reverting back to his old ways (catholicism)
"Show me dear christ thy spouse so bright and clear. What! is it she which on the other shore
Goes richly painted or which robbed and tore,
Laments and mourns in Germany and here?
Sleeps she a thousand, then peeps up one year? Is she self-truth and errs? now, new, now outwore?
Doth she, and did she, and shall she evermore
On one, on seven, or on no hill appear?"
JOHN DONNE, (Holy Sonnet 18)
thy spouse: the church
Questioning god, asking which is correct religion, which one should I start liking?
"And let mine amorous soul court thy mild dove,
Who is most true and pleasing to thee then
When she is embraced and open to most men."
JOHN DONNE (Holy Sonnet 17 )Wants to know which religion is open to all men and which religion is true to all men
"Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me."
JOHN DONNE ( Holy Sonnet 16 pg. 1298)
what is he asking god to do? what is he saying about himself? I am incapable of loving you enough, god. I am just a human being for me to be truly yours your going to have to rape me (holy ravage me)
"Since she whom I loved hath paid her debt
To Nature, and to hers, and my good is dead
And her soul early into heaven is ravished,
Wholly on heavenly things my mind is set"
JOHN DONNE (Holy Sonnet 17)
His wife of 16 years is dead. He doesn't know how to let her go. He is worried he will fall into the temptations of the world.
"Desiring naught but how to kill desire"
SIR PHILLIP SIDNEY
"this blind man's mark thou fools"
SIR PHILLIP SIDNEY
"She is all states, and all princes I,
Nothing else is."
JOHN DONNE (The Sun is Rising)
"By this these angels from an evil sprite,
Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright.
License my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.
O my America! my new-found-land,
My kingdom, safelies when with one man manned
My mine of precious stones, my empery,
How blest am I in this discovering thee! to enter in these bonds is to be free;
JOHN DONNE
"I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks treads on the ground
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare"
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Sonnet 130) WRITTEN TO THE DARK LADY
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken"
SHAKESPEARE (Poem 116)
True love does not change it is constant and strong enough to endure temptation
"No workman's tool hath touched the same A HEART alone.
Is such a stone"
GEORGE HERBERT (The Alter)
Oh let thy blessed sacrifice be mine and sanctify this Altar to be thine.
GEORGE HERBERT (The Alter)