Online Test: Metaphysical Poetry
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1. Who coined the term 'metaphysical poetry'?
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2. Which of the following is the work in which 'metaphysical poetry' was first mentioned?
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3. ‘Argument and persuasion, and the use of the conceit as their instrument, are the elements or body of a metaphysical poem.' Who said it?
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4. '______________  is famous for its abrupt, personal openings in which a man speaks to his mistress, or addresses his God, or sets a scene, or calls us to mark this or see that.’ Who said it?
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5. Who said this about metaphysical poetry? "He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satires, but in his amorous verses, where nature only shouldreign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy, when he should engage their hearts, and entertain them with the softnesses of love.'
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6. Who said this about metaphysical poets? "The metaphysical poets were men of learning, and, to show their learning was their whole endeavour; but,unluckily resolving to show it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry, they only wrote verses, and, very often,such verses as stood the trial of the finger better than of the ear; for the modulation was so imperfect, that they were only found to be verses by counting the syllables."
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7. Who said this and in which work about metaphysical poetry? "The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtilty surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased."
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8. Colin Burrow, writing for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, describes ________________  as the 'central figures' of metaphysical poetry
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9. In 1921, __________ published 'Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century', which collected poems by Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, Marvell, and Carew.[
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10. _________'s 'Metaphysical Poets' anthology,published in 1957, contained work by many more writers, including 'proto-metaphysical' poets such as William Shakespeare and Sir Walter Raleigh, and even poems by the Restoration libertine the Earl of Rochester.
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11. Match the lines with the poems
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The Flea
O how feeble is man's power, That if good fortune fall, Cannot add another hour, Nor a lost hour recall ; But come bad chance, And we join to it our strength, And we teach it art and length, Itself o'er us to advance.
The Dream
But, O alas ! so long, so far, Our bodies why do we forbear? They are ours, though not we ; we are Th' intelligences, they the spheres.
Thou know'st that this cannot be said A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead ; Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two ; And this, alas ! is more than we would do.
SWEETEST love, I do not go
When you are gone, and Reason gone with you, Then Fantasy is queen and soul, and all
The Ecstacy
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12. From which of Donne's poems are these lines taken? Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,And poppy or charms can make us sleep as wellAnd better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
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13. Identify the poem: "BUSY old fool, unruly Sun,         Why dost thou thus,Through windows, and through curtains, call on us ? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run ?"
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14. identify the poem: "So, if I dream I have you, I have you, For, all our joys are but fantastical."
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15. "The souls of the two lovers free themselves from the definite confines of the physical construct of the body and become one physically and spiritually in an ecstatic union of souls." Identify the poem in which this theme is at the center.
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16. Which of the following poem deal with - “Physical love” is love that is primarily based upon the sensation or the presence of the beloved or that emphasizes sexuality.
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17. "_______" is a poem by Welsh poet George Herbert published in 1633, and is a part of a collection of poems within Herbert's book 'The Temple'.
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18. In which of the poem is river Ganga referred?
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19. "Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime." - Identify the poem from this beginning lines?
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