JOHN DRYDEN poem Farewell Ungrateful Traitor—LITERARY CRITICISM & POETRY ANALYSIS—English Literature
Literary criticism & poetry analysis of John Dryden’s witty & feisty, but jaded, poem ‘Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor’, also known as ‘Song’, which formed part of John Dryden’s popular Restoration period play The Spanish Friar (1681). Is the overall meaning of the poem ironic?
OUTLINE
- Poem reading (John Dryden’s ‘Farewell, Ungrateful Traytor’)
- Literary contexts of the poem (incl. characters from John Dryden’s play The Spanish Fryar, Queen Leonora & Torrismond; allusion to Olympia & Bireno from Ludovico Ariosto’s epic poem Orlando Furioso (1516))
- Line-by-line literary criticism & poem analysis, focusing particularly on:
o rhyme scheme
o rhythm
o antithetical constructions within the poem
JOHN DRYDEN LITERARY CRITICISM & POETRY ANALYSIS
17th CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE ANALYSIS
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