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A 4 page paper that considers this poem by examining the concepts of humanism, sprezzatura, virtue, shame and guilt based culture and literary theory. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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who sought to conjure a style reminiscent of the ancient Greek classical poets. Jonson celebrated the poetic medium by incorporating its glorious historical epic past with the passionate romanticism
of the Renaissance. However, unlike his austere literary contemporaries, Ben Jonson had a sense of humor. He never took himself or his art so seriously that he couldnt
satirize it or subject it to his tongue-in-cheek wit. This is readily apparent in his poem, "A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces," believed to have been composed
around 1623. As the title indicates, it is a poem subdivided into ten lyrical verses that recounted the love affair (through narrative confessions and interplay as a kind of
"he said/she said") between a bachelor named Ben (merely coincidence since this was a work of fiction) and a seductive vixen named Charis, with whom he has been completely smitten.
During the Renaissance, humanism or the interpretation of classical ideas into contemporary prose became a popular literary practice. Humanism was an attempt to break with the superstition of Christian
theology and ancient Greek mythology and develop more rational, human perspectives. This is evident in "A Celebration of Charis" when the narrator restores the sight of the Greek love
god Cupid, and he subsequently flees (Donaldson 154): "And (withal) I did untie / Every cloud about his eye; / But he had not gained his sight / Sooner than
he lost his might / O his courage; for away / Straight he ran and durst no stay, / Letting bow and arrow fall; / Nor a for any threat
or call / Could be brought once back to look" (Jonson II.11-19). This was Jonsons way of shooting an arrow through superstitious attitudes and replacing them with a
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