Topic:
To love and to desire love is to lay claim to a private self. How do love and desire in Shakespeare, Donne, Marvell, and Herrick reveal a new burgeoning interest in the individual (choose three authors)?
Structure:
Write a proper introduction that makes a claim about the theme and a conclusion the suggests the implications of your claim and does not merely repeat what you just wrote.
Use specific and relevant examples from the readings to support your claims
Attribute the quotes to the appropriate authors or texts
Explain the quote after you use it
Form:
write lead-in and follow up sentences to your 3 quotes (avoid floating quotations, and use 3 differents quotes from differents authors).
Include in-text citations in MLA format after quotes or paraphrases. Ex: (Chaucer line 876)
double space
No Works Cited required
Sources that need to be use:
-John Donne: “The Good Morrow”; “The Sun Rising”;
“Valediction Forbidding Mourning”; “The Flea”; From The Holy Sonnets 1, 10, 14
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-donne#tab-poems
-Andrew Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress”; “An Horatian Ode”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/andrew-marvell#tab-poems
-Robert Herrick: “Corinna’s Going A-Maying”; “The Argument of
His Book”; “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”; “Upon
Julia’s Breasts”; “The Night Piece, to Julia”; ”Upon Julia’s
Clothes”;
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-herrick#tab-poems
-William Shakespeare. Henry IV, Part 1, Acts 1-2 (MyAur)
William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Acts 3-5
William Shakespeare, Sonnets 18, 20, 29, 55, 73, 116, 129, 130
https://shakespeare.folger.edu/downloads/pdf/shakespeares-sonnets_PDF_FolgerShakespeare.pdf
Some notes:
Henry 1:
someone in a high position fall, they need a flaw, people that we look up to and admired but they fall for someone around them.
watching tragedy on the stage, the tension of emotions release.
what makes it comedy? almost always a marriage, there is a resolution, he knows what he has to do to be a king.
he will never end something in chaos, comedy comes in marriage, there is always irony.
even the lovers don’t like it at the start but end up falling in love.
Romeo and Juliet, is not their fault, but around them ( the family )
polished came from here Shakespeare, the chronic is the beginning of two houses fighting for the crown, move on to middle ages to the noble to the king of England, what is going on to the beginning of this play: over troll a regime of a king
when the king does something evil all the kingdom offer, put country in saving, you go fight the war, there is some rebel, we need put to rest, start a cruce, we need to drag the pegan, they have god in their part so they have to fight the enemy, his man taken by them, treating the man of henry the fourth.
another unwelcome new Hotspur he was a valiant warrior but a testa calda, starting to go against him, he wishes to be his son, because he was drinking and sleeping with woman, Hotspur was a warrior and the son is a loser, the son doesn’t want to be part of this, he takes a lot of drugs but when the father needs him he will take his position.
main themes– the making of a good king, (but he will fit if he killed the king before him, can he do is a job? not in begging).
he is entertaining, funny, they are annoying but you have this kind of friends, is brilliant because we know someone like that, but sometime they cross the line, and is gonna happen in the play. themes of kingship. and what makes England.
creating a national identity.
we see the immortality of love, rassonance we see the importance of the individual. individual liberty and follow happiness, move away from the action but go to the complicity of the individual, beauty is spiritual in shaskpear, immortality of love, feeling that don’t go away, even if they die. the immortality of words. different motivators, desire.
cite also courtly romance
