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E211: British Literature to 1760 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Study Questions Alfred J. Drake | 423 UH | TW 12:45-1:45 | ajdrake@ajdrake.com "Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought" 1. Compare and contrast this poem with Wyatt's "The long love." How does the lover's attitude differ? "The Soote Season" 2. How does this poem show the potential in the new English Sonnet verse form? How do the final two lines sum up the sonnet's meaning, allowing the speaker to reflect on what he has seen and experienced? "O Happy Dames, That May Embrace" 3. The speaker is female. How does the poet convey her passions, and how do the elements play with and against the speaker's emotions? 4. In what relation does the speaker stand to the "happy dames"? What does she ask of them? "My Friend, the Things That Do Attain" 5. What value lies in this glorification of a "mean estate" for the poet? What contrast is being offered here? "Epitaph on Sir Thomas Wyatt" 6. What were the best of Wyatt's qualities as an ideal courtier? "Prisoned in Windsor, He Recounteth His Pleasure There Passed" 7. Compare this poem to Wyatt's similar "Innocentia" and "Mine Own John Poins" in terms of the speaker's emotional state and strategy for dealing with his circumstances? 8. How and why does the speaker reflect upon his past as a child? What insight does this reflection provide him and us? Edition: Abrams, M.H. et al. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vols. 1A, 1B, 1C. 7th. edition.
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