Renaissance Poetry

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Across
  1. 2. → “The flowers do fade, and wanton fields to wayward winter reckoning yields” conveys this theme
  2. 7. → Exaggeration in Marlowe’s love promises
  3. 13. → “Come live with me and be my love” opens this poem
  4. 15. → Raleigh’s poem beginning “If all the world and love were young”
  5. 16. → Poet of Amoretti who wrote “One day I wrote her name upon the strand”
  6. 19. → “Beds of roses” and “a thousand fragrant posies” evoke this sensory effect
  7. 20. → Poetic term for the basic rhythmic unit of verse
  8. 21. → The tone of Marlowe’s poem can best be described as this
  9. 22. → Giving human traits to the sea in “Sonnet 75”
  10. 25. → The symbolic season representing death and the end of passion
  11. 26. → “My verse your virtues rare shall eternize” conveys the poet’s purpose or this
  12. 29. → The tone of Raleigh’s poem can best be described as this
  13. 32. → Repetition of consonant sounds for rhythm and flow
  14. 34. → The overall literary movement these poets belong to
  15. 35. → “And in heavens write your glorious name” shows the power of this creative force
  16. 36. → Raleigh’s tone toward love’s promises
Down
  1. 1. → Shared theme among the three poets: the tension between time and this emotion
  2. 3. → Simple alternating rhyme (AABB) typical of Marlowe’s pastoral lyric
  3. 4. → Meter used by Spenser with ten syllables per line
  4. 5. → A poem responding directly to another poem
  5. 6. → Literary device contrasting eternal love and fleeting life
  6. 8. → The nymph’s warning that pleasure fades reflects the passing of this
  7. 9. → “Love’s not Time’s fool” in Shakespeare echoes Spenser’s view of this concept
  8. 10. → Raleigh’s counterargument emphasizes life’s inevitable transformation
  9. 11. → “Time drives the flocks from field to fold” exemplifies this device
  10. 12. → Vowel repetition in “Made my verse her virtues rare”
  11. 14. → Rhyme pattern of Spenser’s Amoretti sonnets (ABAB BCBC CDCD EE)
  12. 17. → Poetic structure of Sonnet 75 containing three quatrains and a final couplet
  13. 18. → “A mortal thing so to immortalize” demonstrates this poetic device
  14. 21. → The poet who replied realistically to Marlowe
  15. 23. → Marlowe’s voice is marked by sensuality and this worldview
  16. 24. → “Our love shall live, and later life renew” expresses this theme
  17. 27. → The act of writing in the sand becomes a symbol of this idea
  18. 28. → The genre idealizing country life and romance
  19. 30. → The “waves” that erase her name symbolize this
  20. 31. → The shepherd’s gifts of “coral clasps and amber studs” represent this
  21. 33. → Raleigh’s perspective aligns more with realism and this quality