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AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS Question 1 The following poem is by the Renaissance poet Thomas Carew (1595-1640). Read the poem carefully. Then, write a well-developed essay in which you analyze how the speaker’s complex attitude is conveyed through the author’s use of literary devices and contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. Mediocrity1 In Love Rejected Give me more love or more disdain; The torrid2, or the frozen zone, Bring equal ease unto my pain; The temperate affords me none; Either extreme, of love, or hate, Is sweeter than a calm estate. Give me a storm; if it be love, Like Danae3 in that golden show'r I swim in pleasure; if it prove Disdain, that torrent4 will devour My vulture-hopes; and he's possess'd Of heaven, that's but from hell releas'd. Then crown my joys, or cure my pain; Give me more love, or more disdain. 1 average quality or indifference 2 boiling or burning 3 from Greek mythology, mother of the hero Perseus who was impregnated by the god Zeus who visited her in the form of a golden rain 4 an overwhelming flow of water