Testi Esoneri Modulo Anatomia del Mondo

Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Corso di Laurea Triennale in Letteratura, Musica e Spettacolo
Anno accademico 2011-12
I semestre
Modulo L-Lin/10 “Anatomia del Mondo” 6 CFU
(Prof. Giuseppe Massara)
Verifica n. 1 da 3 crediti del 27 febbraio 2012
RISPONDETE
SUL FOGLIO ALLEGATO IN 50 MINUTI SCEGLIENDO DALLE SEGUENTI DOMANDE
INDIFFERENTEMENTE DAL GRUPPO A E B
SECTION A
A1.
Which poem would you indicate as the best example of John Donne’s early poetic style and why?
A2.
Compare Donne and Shakespeare’s different approaches to lyrical style and tradition.
A3.
Comment on Marvell’s The Garden stressing its connections with the metaphysical poetic school.
A4.
Alchemic notions and imagery in the Songs and Sonets of John Donne.
SECTION B
Identify and comment on the following passages
B1.
“For love, all love of other sights controules, / And makes one little roome, an every where.”
B2.
“The Christian plummet sounding heav’n and earth; / Engine against th’Almightie, sinners towre, //
Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear ”
B3.
“And quickly make that, which was nothing, all”
B4.
“And as to others soules I preached thy word, / Be this my Text, my Sermon to mine owne”
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Corso di Laurea Triennale in Letteratura, Musica e Spettacolo
Anno accademico 2011-12
I semestre
Modulo L-Lin/10 “Anatomia del Mondo” 6 CFU
(Prof. Giuseppe Massara)
Verifica n. 1 da 3 crediti del 15 febbraio 2012
RISPONDETE
SUL FOGLIO ALLEGATO IN 50 MINUTI SCEGLIENDO DALLE SEGUENTI DOMANDE
INDIFFERENTEMENTE DAL GRUPPO A E B
SECTION A
A1.
Show the differences between the early and the mature poetry of John Donne.
A2.
Are there some metaphors that you would judge as particularly significant and possibly indicate as
“key metaphors” for the poetry of John Donne?
A3.
Metre in John Donne’s early poetry.
A4.
Geographic and astronomic notions and imagery in the 'Songs and Sonets' of John Donne.
SECTION B
Identify and comment on the following passages
B1.
“sacrilege, three sinnes in killing three.”
B2.
“I do bring, / The spider love, which transubstantiates all, / And can convert Mann to gall”
B3.
“Love is a growing of full constant light; / And his first minute, after noone is night.”
B4.
“Looke Lord, and finde both Adams met in me;”
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Corso di Laurea Triennale in Letteratura, Musica e Spettacolo
Anno accademico 2011-12
I semestre
Modulo L-Lin/10 “Anatomia del Mondo” 6 CFU
(Prof. Giuseppe Massara)
Verifica n. 1 da 3 crediti crediti del 19 dicembre 2011
RISPONDETE
SUL FOGLIO ALLEGATO IN 50 MINUTI SCEGLIENDO DALLE SEGUENTI DOMANDE
INDIFFERENTEMENTE DAL GRUPPO A E B
SECTION A
A1.
Petrarch as a model in John Donne’s poetry.
A2.
To what extent it could be said that some or even all of John Donne’s poems do not belong to the
English Sonnet tradition?
A3.
Briefly identify some of the most distinguishing traits of John Donne’s poetry.
A4.
Talk about the Physical and Spiritual aspects of Love in the poetry of John Donne, and of how the
Body and Soul are related.
SECTION B
Identify and comment on the following passages
B1.
“Like gold to ayery thinnesse beate.”
B2.
“I tune the Instrument here at the dore”
B3.
“Then will I swear beauty herself is black, / And all they foul that thy complexion lack.”
B4.
“Love let mee / Some senselesse peece of this place bee”
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Corso di Laurea Triennale in Letteratura, Musica e Spettacolo
Anno accademico 2011-12
I semestre
Modulo L-Lin/10 “Anatomia del Mondo” 6 CFU
(Prof. Giuseppe Massara)
Verifica n. 2 da 3 crediti del 27 febbraio 2012
RISPONDETE
SUL FOGLIO ALLEGATO IN 50 MINUTI SCEGLIENDO DALLE SEGUENTI DOMANDE
INDIFFERENTEMENTE DAL GRUPPO A E B
SECTION A
A1.
The use of hyperbole in Donne’s An Anatomy of the World: provide examples and comment on
them.
A2.
The role played by history in John Donne’s poetry.
A3.
Loss of Eden and Fall in Donne’s An Anatomy of the World .
A4.
Proportion/disproportion in the poetic structure of An Anatomy of the World.
SECTION B
Identify and comment on the following passages
B1.
“ ‘Tis all in peeces, all cohaerence gone; / All just supply, and all Relation:”
B2.
“Nor could incomprehensiblenesse deterre / Mee, from thus trying to emprison her”
B3.
“This new world may be safer, being told / The dangers and diseases of the old”
B4.
“a glimmering light, / A faint weake love of vertue, and of good, / Reflects from her”
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Corso di Laurea Triennale in Letteratura, Musica e Spettacolo
Anno accademico 2011-12
I semestre
Modulo L-Lin/10 “Anatomia del Mondo” 6 CFU
(Prof. Giuseppe Massara)
Verifica n. 2 da 3 crediti del 15 febbraio 2012
RISPONDETE
SUL FOGLIO ALLEGATO IN 50 MINUTI SCEGLIENDO DALLE SEGUENTI DOMANDE
INDIFFERENTEMENTE DAL GRUPPO A E B
SECTION A
A1.
Briefly explain the meaning of the word “Anatomy” in connection with the themes developed by
John Donne in his major poem.
A2.
The character of Elizabeth Drury as treated by John Donne.
A3.
Dissonance, fragmentation, paradox as part of the poetics and use of sources in An Anatomy of the
World .
A4.
Illustrate with examples how T. S. Eliot's notion of the 'objective correlative' can apply to Donne's
Anatomy.
SECTION B
Identify and comment on the following passages
B1.
“Be more then man, or thou’rt lesse then an Ant.”
B2.
“Take mee to you, imprison mee, for I / Except you’enthrall mee, never shall be free.”
B3.
“So, of the Starres which boast that they doe runne / In Circle still, none ends where he begunne.”
B4.
“as gold fals sicke being stung with Mercury”