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Let's see how much do you know about the poems on this blog?

In English, what is the other way to call English sonnets?

Italian

French

Shakespearean

Biblical

How many sonnets did Shakespear compose in his lifetime?

154

124

174

John Donne's "The Flea" was published

The sixteenth century

The seventeenth century

The eighteenth century

The time of publication has never been established.

What does it mean in 'The Flea' when the speaker declares, 'Though use make you apt to kill me, let not to that self-murder added be'?

That killing any living creature makes one a murderer

The speaker fears that the flea's bite will be fatal to his lover

That killing the flea is like killing a part of each lover because their life and blood exist in the flea's body

The speaker is comparing being separated from his lover to death.

At the end of the poem "To His Coy Mistress", the speaker says that he and his lover cannot make Time stand still, but they can

"enjoy the current day"

"outlast his cruel effects"

"make him run"

"run forward hand in hand"

The key theme(s) of the previous poem is/are

carpe diem

Memento mori

Holy matrimony

Both a and b

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