Poetry and its Forms
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Poetry and its Forms
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Images and other files that chronicle our class's study of poetry and its forms, archival and otherwise.
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Poems on Several Occasions (1696)
Miscellany. Poems on several occasions by the Duke of Buckingham, The late Lord Rochester, Sir John Denham, Sir George Etheridge, Andrew Marvel, Esq., the famous Spencer, Madam Behn, and several other poets of this age.
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Sonnet 43, by Lady Mary Wroth, from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus.(Folger Shakespeare Library
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![Book 2, "Of Proportion Poetical," from George Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie (1589)](https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/23137/archive/square_thumbnails/f86dc1e75a9742736a287e6060ee5830.jpg?Expires=1714608000&Signature=Ig5JYW38lnbYtY7hDohWVJR%7EIrjIWyKgI9Ip0aVebCzPwJQduIeHgPzScShY2yIfKpwCyKvScE%7E-PK0AQHJPo6QT-zx7LWJoEQ4mGPgtgMkYxM7tuBHr-aka%7EH8vPbY5GUtyjH1-qVVZbaXsOd2LweKjI6gG0LrUY1MCc6lovwFBulfKlrKtsXP7PCpwqu4DuKl5iL3yLPE0%7E0qJg1i86hNi42GDMIpjv-EZooUU94d0mdGHb6SoQhAhRlqXP0uDTpYRBmqUZ0mcctsX%7E1InYp5KOJiB6Vm2TIuPiZQZil0lAwMTGVipcD9piEf24xInsKNnj5utyv23Bw54ZwzcHg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM "Book 2, "Of Proportion Poetical," from George Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie (1589)")
George Herbert's "The Altar"
![George Herbert's "The Altar"](https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/23137/archive/square_thumbnails/6a4dec6793e1d3a890b8af78724f7da7.jpg?Expires=1714608000&Signature=bkNI5Mlc0HM4Fz1H-%7E3PtJrDGm1KHbME1Kiq9rQjahuhOysaEJ1v64nNXimAiuAmkWZBO4H%7EDnZnPkHrb8MJ0IC9%7EYdDTYCFIg%7ExJvLuSzLQl--Pz5VFkxSReApOfFiFmFKKLHth8QffhhQpEUuFawp7YO2mBmPuqUz%7E1Vcr1OIhCSbMkNhbcuCKpNsrXYMzlLhplPxlwPBI5aagxWj9Q6syR6o8X%7EuFCi8NQ%7ExDkYoFZTrB6YBzrSlNhxULW4Z%7Ea5NsGxWJOKabvOp5fDaNo2p8sZFQa7iOg9UJaO28Enxbez9YduzPqcY2YB-96p9Ii-UAkNHn%7E-lkZma5lPoJxg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM "George Herbert's "The Altar"")
Similar to his poem, "Easter Wings," Herbert's "The Altar" uses form to mirror the content or meaning of the text. In "The Altar," the speaker describes an altar comprised of his "heart" (line 2) and "cemented with tears" (line 2). Essentially, the…