What is England's greatest allegory?
Pilgrim's Progress
What is England's greatest epic?
Paradise Lost
What genre experienced a great decline in the 17th century?
Drama
What message does the poet give in To the Virgins, to make much of Time?
To get married before they ran out of time and got old.
In what poem does the poet declare that he would rather face hell than face God without Christ?
No coming to God without Christ.
What is ironic about the title The Constant Lover?
He only loved her for 3 days.
In what poem does honor drive man away from his love to the battlefield?
To Lucasta, going to the Wars
In what work does the poet write about the freedom of the soul and spirit?
To Althea, from Prison
What poem talks about the eternal love of married couples?
The Anniversary
What is the theme of Meditation XVII?
The bell tolls for all of us
Whom does the poet address in Bitter-sweet?
God
What poem talks about the poet tracing his thoughts as he moves from rebellion to submission?
The Collar
What is the theme of The Pulley?
Man's need for rest.
In the poem Peace, what place does the poet describe in the opening lines?
Heaven
Whom is the poet addressing in Peace?
God
What poem talks about that the present is more important than the past or future?
Now
According to the poem Now, what decision is important to make now?
Salvation
What happened to the husband and wife in the poem Epitaph?
They lived,died, and were buried together.
What is the theme of the poem, On his having arrived at the age of 23?
Time is the subtle thief of youth.
Whose death is lamented in the work, On the late massacre in Piedmont?
Slaughtered saints
What work by John Milton gives a warning about the restriction of all books?
In Defense of Books
In the work Paradise Lost, what means of revenge does Satan propose to the princes of hell?
To destroy God's creation
What thought persuaded Eve to share the fruit with Adam according to Paradise Lost?
She didn't want ending up with another woman if she died.
What is theme of Paradise Lost?
Justifying the ways of God to men.
Who was the greatest prose writer of the Puritan Age?
John Bunyan
Who wrote To Lucasta, going to the wars and To Althea, from Prison?
Richard Lovelace
What lyric poet was famous for using the couplet?
Edmund Waller
Who was known as the greatest of the Metaphysical Poets?
John Donne
What metaphysical poet was known for his saintly life and intense devotion to God?
George Herbert
What group of poets emphasized the pleasures of this world and often wrote love songs to or about women?
Cavalier poets
What group of poets emphasized things of the mind, soul, and eternity?
Metaphysical poets
Complete thought expressed in 2 rhyming lines.
Couplet
Points out an unusual parallel between highly dissimilar elements
Metaphysical conceit
"Shall I wasting in despair Die because a woman's fair?"
The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet by George Wither
"For if she be not for me What care I for whom she be?"
The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet by George Wither
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying:"
To the Virgins, to make much of Time by Robert Herrick
"I have lov'd Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather."
The Constant Lover by Sir John Suckling
"Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage;"
To Althea, from Prison by Richard Lovelace
"I could not love thee (deare) so much, Lov'd I not honour more."
To Lucasta, going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace
"For thee, thou needst no such deceit, For thou thy self art thine own bait;"
The Bait by John Donne
"This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint My pilgrimage's last mile; and my race Idly, yet quickly run, hath this last pace,"
Renunciation from Holy Sonnets by John Donne
"The world resembled his eternity, In which my soul did walk; And everything that I did see Did with me talk."
Wonder by Thomas Traherne