Maisha's Brit Lit Journal

Sir Thomas Moore and Queen Elizabeth Questions 1-4 and 9 1. From the king's perspective, the King must put his people's welfare before his; and he should sacrifice his desires for his people. 2. More believes that it's in the King's best interest to ensure the prosperity of his people because it's better to prevent crime or degradation in the society than trying to manage it after it happens. 3. If any prince of Europe tries to invade her realm, Queen Elizabeth would take up arms, she would be the general, judge, and rewarder of any virtues in the field.  4. More makes a case of how badly the kingdom can be affected if a king lets his subjects do whatever they please; as in break the social harmony of the kingdom. He then tells how that by preventing such acts by amending his own indolence and arrogance, he can just not take the hassle of managing adverse situations at all. 8. Queen Elizabeth in her speech says that, "I am come amongst you all; to l...

Edmund Spenser Sonnet Questions 1-3, 5, 7 and 9 1. The writer compares himself to fire and his lover to ice in symbols of how their love reacts to each other. 2. When the writer wrote his lover's name in the sand, the waves washed it away. But when he did it the second time, the tide made his pains his prey. 3. The writer's lover thinks him writing her name in the sand is a vain attempt at trying to immortalize her. She thinks that like her name on the sand, she too will fade away due to decay; and her lover is emphasizing that. 5. The lines 13-14 represent the writer's hope that despite their love being such a struggle, it's love; and in his mind, love has the power to overcome anything, and it can alter all the principles of nature. So he seems hopeful, and he has overcome the heartache expressed in the preceding quatrains. 7. The speaker's views about the following topics are: A beloved woman: The writer thinks of his beloved as cold as...

Marlowe and Raleigh Questions 1. The shepherd offers the nymph gifts of beds of roses, thousand fragrant posies, a cap of flowers, a kirtle embroidered with leaves of myrtle. He also offers to give her a gown made of the finest wool, Fair lined slippers for the cold with buckles of the purest gold, a belt of straw and ivy buds with coral clasps and amber studs. 2. The only thing the shepherd wants in return for his gifts to his love is for her to go and live with him, and be his love so that they can sit upon the rocks, and see the shepherds feed their flocks.  3. The nymph believes all of the shepherd's gifts are temporary and one day they will fade. So, what she wants truly is for youth to last long and love to be honest and lasting. 6. The nymphs view of each of the following subjects:   Lover's words: She doubts that the shepherd is promising eternity full of love. So she says that if the words of every shepherd's tongue were true, she would go...