Transcript Renaissance Pastorals and Carpe Diem Poetry

Renaissance Poetry
Pastoral
Carpe Diem
Pieter Brueghel,
Netherlandish Proverbs
Peasant Dance
Questions for Thought:
In regard to the painter’s intention, what did you find
in common between the two pieces of art?
Did they depict life as it was actually in the renaissance
for the emerging middle class?
Why would artists use art this way?
Thomas Cole
Pastoral Poetry
From the Latin word pastor meaning ‘shepherd’
Pastoral poems are set in an idealized countryside
inhabited by handsome shepherds, beautiful nymphs
(young women) all living in harmony with nature
The characters in Elizabethean pastorals are simple
country people, but (like in the art pieces) are
illuminated by the author’s details through use of
diction, imagery and highly sophisticated language
Pastorals do nor really correspond with their
uncomplicated characters or settings, rather they long
for a simple time gone by
Lucas van Valkenborch
Carpe Diem Poetry
Reflecting an ancient Roman theme, carpe diem
literally means ‘seize the day’
The Roman Horace said, “Let us eat and rink, for
tomorrow we die.”
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Come live with me and be my Love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.
How can you tell the speaker wants his love to be with him
right now?
What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Stanza Two
And we will we sit upon the rocks
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
Madrigals- complicated songs for many voices
What is the rhyme scheme?
In your own words, what does this stanza say?
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
How does the imagery of this first stanza of a longer poem
illuminate the theme carpe diem?
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he’s a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he’s to setting.
What is this an allusion to?
What imagery is the speaker using to relate to the theme?
What is the rhyme scheme?
Assignment
Read the four poems on pages 296- 307 and answer the
questions using complete sentences on page 298 (1-5)
and 307 (1-5)