Презентация на тему The cavalier poets

especially a mounted warrior, such as a knight;
cavalier became

a political term during Charles I’s reign;
the personal style of the Cavaliers, which featured long, flowing hair and elaborate dress, contrasted sharply with that of the austerely garbed Roundheads;
the most gifted were Sir John Suckling, Robert Herrick, and Richard Lovelace.

Tone
Classicism
Regular Poetic Form
Carpe Diem

natural speech patterns.

I sing of brooks, of blossoms,

birds, and bowers;
Of April, May, of June, and July flowers …
(R. Herrick)

Donne’s fondness for elaborate conceits;
the majority of their poems

were less obscure and more accessible than those of the metaphysical poets.

at times poets seem self-mocking

I must confess, when I

did part from you,
I could not force an artificial dew [tears]
Upon my cheeks . . .
(J. Suckling)

Romans;
rich in classical allusions (the names of Greek and

Roman gods);
the forms of the poems are often based on classical models (the odes of Horace, the satires of Juvenal, and the eclogues of Virgil).

structured stanzas, and simple language also reflects the classical

influence;
welcomed the tidy order of regular meter and rhyme schemes;
used heroic couplets (pairs of rhymed iambic pentameter lines);
regularity allowed the poems to be set to music.