Today’s Agenda:

1. Today’s Agenda: • Collect Essay 2. --How did turnitin.com go? Problems? Questions? • Mention homework • Complete the activity on Donne—Holy Sonnet 14 & Meditation 17 • Go over early-mid 17th C poetry & politics (PowerPoints online); • Ben Jonson’s “To Penhurst” (especially as an image of order) • Royalists vs. Puritans • Jonson as an example of a Royalist • Herrick as an example of a Royalist • Royalists as Cavalier Poets • “Seize the day” as a Cavalier theme • Milton as a Puritan, though a unique one

2. Questions to Consider When Reading John Donne 1. The Norton Anthology sums up Donne’s style as follows: “With his strange and playful intelligence, expressed in puns, paradoxes, and elaborately sustained metaphors known as ‘conceits,’ Donne has enthralled and sometimes enraged readers from his day to our own.” Read the “The Flea” (1264) and then sum it up and explain how the poem seems characteristic of Donne’s style. 2. In what ways are the ideas expressed in “The Good Morrow” (1263-4) and “The Sun Rising” (1266) similar? Who/what is the speaker addressing in each poem, and what lines stand out as clever in their attempt to persuade their audience? 3. What are some novel images and comparisons that appear in the poems “The Canonization” (1267-68) and “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (1275-76)? 4. Donne’s poems aren’t known for being soft spoken and traditional but for being bold, assertive, and provocative in both their tone and their choice of images. How does “Holy Sonnet 14” (1297-98) appear, then, typical of Donne? 5. Read “Meditation 17” (1305-06). For whom does the bell toll, and what does Donne suggest this should teach us? Which analogies do you find most striking in this piece?

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7. Homework: Read Sir Francis Bacon (pp. 1550-51): “Of Superstition” (pp. 1556-57), NovumOrganum(pp. 1565-69); John Milton (pp. 1785-89): Areopagitica (pp. 1816-25), “How Soon Hath Time” (p. 1826), “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” (p. 1828). Quiz next class: It’s on these pages: 1235-36, 1242-43, 1254-55 and on anything emphasized last class, especially striking images from Donne’s poems. Reading Responses: Do one for Donne and one for 17th C writers Presentations Next Class: • Christopher Dysart: Bacon’s biography • Noah Bertolero: Milton’s biography