Ranaissance Era

Christhoper Marlowe

Title : Dido, Queen of Carthage

Author : Christhoper Marlowe

Year : 1594

Characters :

§ Dido - Queen of Carthage

§ Aeneas - a Trojan hero and the son of King Priam and the goddess Venus

§ Ascanius - guillermo

§ Iarbas - King of Gaetulia who is love Dido

§ Achates - friend of Aeneas

Summary

Dido, Queen of Carthage is a short play written by Christhopher Marlowe, with possible contributions by Thomas Nashe. It was first published in 1594 by the bookseller Thomas Woodcock. The story of the play focuses on the classical figure of Dido, the Queen of Carthage. It tells an intense dramatic tale of Dido and her fanatical love for Aeneas (induced by Cupid), Aeneas' betrayal of her and her eventual suicide on his departure for Italy. Aeneas is a Trojan hero and the son of King Priam and the goddess Venus. He is a handsome man. Many girls love him. But he just loves Dido. Beside that, there is a man who loves Dido, too. He is Iarbas, the king of Gaetulia. Aeneas competes with Gaetulia to get Dido’s love. Dido choices Aeneas because she really loves him. And Gaetulia does not get her love. He has broken heart. Whereas, Aeneas and Dido live in happiness.

Reinassance era

POETRY

Dover Beach

By Matthew Arnold

The sea is calm to-night,

The tide is full, the moon lies fair

Upon the straits; -- on the French coast the light

Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,

Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!

Only, from the long line of spray

Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,

Listen! You hear the grating roar

Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,

At their return, up the high strand,

Begin, and cease, and then again begin,

With tremulous cadence slow, and bring

The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago

Heard it on the Aegean, and it brought

Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow

Of human misery; we

Find also in the sound a thought,

Hearing it by this distant northern sea.

The sea of faith

Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore

Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.

But now I only hear

Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,

Retreating, to the breath

Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear

And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true

To one another! For the world which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.

SUMMARY

This poetry tells about the scenery of the beach. Matthew Arnold tells the condition of the beach in the night. The beautiful moon lights the earth and decorates the sea. The cold air touches our body in the night. We can hear the grating roar, the beautiful sound of the night. The darkness of night is a nice peace and night-wind makes a wonderful sky. And the beach is a nice place for human to quite their mind.

Renaissance Literature

THE POEMS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

William Shakespeare is referred to as a Literary Genius and much of this praise is due to the wonderful words of his short sonnet poems and his extended poems as detailed on this page. He is the most widely read author in the whole of the Western World - his poems and quotes from poems are familiar to everyone. And yet when we think about Shakespeare we immediately we think of his famous plays and not his less famous poems. During the Bard's lifetime dramatists were not considered 'serious' authors with 'serious' talent - but it was highly fashionable to write poems. Plays were for entertainment poems were for the elite! There was not even such a thing as a custom built theatre until 1576! Actors were common folk. Poets of the era such as Christopher Marlowe, Sir Philip Sydney, Sir Walter Raleigh were of the nobility and there poems are still enjoyed today. These poets had credibility and so did their poetry. William Shakespeare came from Yeoman stock - he lacked credibility - his poems would have helped with this problem! The Bard did not give permission for one of his plays or his sonnets to be published. He was, however, happy to have his poems published. William Shake-spear has been attributed with the following poems:

THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE
A POEM BY
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Phoenix and the Turtle
Let the bird of loudest lay
On the sole Arabian tree
Herald sad and trumpet be
To whose sound chaste wings obey
But thou shrieking harbinger
Foul procurers of the fiend
Augur of the fever's end
To this troop come thou not near

From this session interdict
Every fowl of tyrant wing
Save the eagle, feathered king
Keep the obsequy so strict

Let the priest in surplice white
That defunctive music can
Be the death-divining swan
Lest the requiem lack his right

And thou, treble-dated crow
That thy sable gender make’s
With the breath thou give’s and take’s
'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go

Here the anthem doth commence
Love and constancy is dead
Phoenix and the turtle fled
In a mutual flame from hence

So they loved, as love in twain
Had the essence but in one
Two distinct, division none
Number there in love was slain

Hearts remote, yet not asunder
Distance, and no space was seen
'Twixt the turtle and his queen
But in them it were a wonder

So between them love did shine
That the turtle saw his right
Flaming in the phoenix' sight
Either was the other's mine

Property was thus appalled
That the self was not the same
Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was called

Reason, in itself confounded
Saw division grow together
To themselves yet either neither
Simple were so well compounded

That it cried, 'How true a twain
See meth this concordant one!
Love hath reason, reason none
If what parts can so remain

Whereupon it made this threne
To the phoenix and the dove
Co-Supremes and stars of love
As chorus to their tragic scene

SUMMARY

The Phoenix and the Turtle Poem

William made this poem in 1601. This poem storied about the Poetical Essays appended to Robert Chester's Love's Martyr: or Rosalind's Complaint. It was attributed to William, and many scholars have accepted the poem as genuine. The date of composition of the poem is unknown, but this poem must be a more mature work. William used his good imagination to make this poem. The words are very wonderful.

YOU NOT ALONE, WHEN YOU ARE STILL ALONE
A POEM BY
MICHAEL DRAYTON

O God, from you that I could private be!
Since you one were, I never since was one
Since you in me, my self since out of me
Transported from my self into your being
Though either distant, present yet to either
Senseless with too much joy, each other seeing
And only absent when we are together
Give me my self and take your self again
Devise some means but how I may forsake you
So much is mine that doth with you remain
That, taking what is mine, with me I take you
You do bewitch me. O, that I could fly
From my self you, or from your own self!

SUMMARY

You Not Alone, When You Are Still Alone

Drayton made a simple poem. But it was filled by wonderful meaning. This poem storied about everyone whom loneliness. God is always beside us, everywhere and every time. Although, we do not have a friend, but we still have one God, most Gracious, and most Merciful. God gives a beautiful life for us. And Drayton expresses it in poem. He writes this poem with his experience.