Ben Jonson Lyric Poetry Analysis

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Ben Jonson shows his classical models and his slow approach, as opposed to Skaespeare's. Jonson does include Shakespeare sometimes in his pieces. Jonson was more balanced in his comparison with Shakespeare. Jonson was the pattern of the elaborte writing. he clearly egnolsihes Shakespeaeares claim to mortality. In Jonson's lyric poetry, he defines nature as cemetry and truth, that was mentioned about King Leo and his daughters. They are showing seymmetry in the outerwrolf. In the "Ancients" he defines God not the commanders. Jonson also mentions the "Jonson's Neo-Classical Virtues." There are the symmetry and order, eloquent plainness, decorum and judgment, and propriety and restraint. These all are values they describe to the classical writer. Jonson's lyric poems show The Cavalier Mode which it the "Good Life." It consists of a conservative outlook, a response to social threat, the love of an English way of life, and a blending of all different types of ideas. It reveals a consistent erage. It also describes the social and the male, paternal and fraternal part. Also the "Good Man," is loyal, judicious and decorous. The content of the poems include …show more content…

It also provides a structure outline of Jonson's words. It is written in a continous stanza of 102 lines with iambic pentameter couplets. It came out to a country home poem. Lines 1-8 are the "Ancient Pile" Line 9-44 is panaromic view of natural landscape. Lines 45-88 is the human landscape and lines 89-102 is the peroration. The interpretations include literal and symbolic. The literal term is the natural beauty, human harmony, hospitality and generosity, and the virtues conferred through religion. The symbolic term is the Penshurst as Garden of Eden, and Penshurst as the dieal feudal state and the idealized image of government of England. Penshurst says that it dewels. It suggests the spirit that habits the entire

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