Question #1:
Hey. I'm doing WJEC AS exams and I can't figure out what half the poems mean. There is one called "Drinking" by Abraham Cowley, which i'm confused about.
I don't understand what the poem is about. It describes how everything natural "drinks" water, but is there some sort of extended metaphor i'm missing?
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Question #2:
Hey I've been trying to find something like a sparknotes for Abraham Cowley's "Of Greatness" except it's obvi not on sparknotes/cliffnotes...
thankss if you can find some other website!! =))
Question #3:
un·re·quit·ed - adj. Not reciprocated or returned in kind.
"A mighty pain to love it is,
And 'tis a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain."
-Abraham Cowley
Question #4:
Name of Poems:
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (Robert Herrick)
To His Coy Mistress (Andrew Marvell)
Easter Wings (George Herbert)
Drinking (Abraham Cowley)
What Care I? (George Wither)
Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover? (Sir John Suckling)
The Constant Lover (Sir John Suckling)
To Althea, from Prison (Richard Lovelace)
Also, are metaphysical poems written by cavalier poets? if so, are they noteworthy of the carpe diem tradition?
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Question #5:
When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.
—Saint Jerome
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
—Franz Kafka
A mighty pain to love it is, / And ’t is a pain that pain to miss; / But of all pains, the greatest pain / It is to love, but love in vain.
—Abraham Cowley
There is a harmony / In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, / Which through the summer is not heard or seen, / As if it could not be, as if it had not been!
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
—T.S. Eliot
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
—William Faulkner
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.
—Plato
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