FML

Sir John Suckling (left) and Richard Lovelace (right)

A couple of notes on the reading for tomorrow:

First, you might need some vocabulary help with Suckling's poems. "Out upon it!" is an old expression of self-indignation comparable to the modern day saying, "FML!" Wan means sickly looking--all green and clammy and dizzy. Both of these poems deal with falling in love with a woman who makes you weak in the knees.

Lovelace's poems (pronounced love-less) are Neoclassical. Althea and Lucasta are the names of idealized women from Ancient Greece. So the speakers of the poems are comparing their women to Greek goddesses.

I'll talk more about this stuff in class. The next couple of discussions should be fun.