Answer the questions, each in a few substantial paragraphs. Cite sources MLA.
1. Choose one poet and discuss how an understanding of the poet’s life can aid our interpretation of their work. How does a knowledge of the poet’s biography deepen our understanding of their poetry? Offer specific examples from the texts.
2. Choose a poet, group of poets, or an artistic movement and discuss how they or it reflect their historical period. How did the time in which they wrote shape their work? Use specific references to both the poetry and the historical period.
Analyze two of these poems, offering an interpretation of the poem’s meaning as well as its historical and cultural context and technical elements:
1. Rossetti, “In An Artist’s Studio”
One face looks out from all his canvases, One selfsame figure sits or walks or leans: We found her hidden just behind those screens, That mirror gave back all her loveliness. A queen in opal or in ruby dress, A nameless girl in freshest summer-greens, A saint, an angel — every canvas means The same one meaning, neither more or less. He feeds upon her face by day and night, And she with true kind eyes looks back on him, Fair as the moon and joyful as the light: Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dream.
2. Wyatt, “Whoso List to Hunt”
Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind, But as for me, hélas, I may no more. The vain travail hath wearied me so sore, I am of them that farthest cometh behind. Yet may I by no means my wearied mind Draw from the deer, but as she fleeth afore Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore, Sithens in a net I seek to hold the wind. Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt, As well as I may spend his time in vain. And graven with diamonds in letters plain There is written, her fair neck round about: Noli me tangere, for Caesar’s I am, And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.
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