Sir Walter Raleigh.

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Sir Walter Raleigh.

• By Nikki Snapp (

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Biography.

• Sir Walter Raleigh was born on an unknown date
  but somewhere between 1552 and1554. Sir Walter
  Raleigh was the youngest of five brothers and
  grew up on a farm in East Budleigh. Walter
  Raleigh is known more for planning the voyage to
  the new world but he was also a poet. Sir Walter
  was also credited for helping defeat the Spanish
  Armada. Many of Sir Walters poems are about love
  and the pilgrims who journeyed to the new world.

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Raleigh
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Poetry Background.

• Sir Walter wrote poems and had an act for
  writing them. Sir Walter based most of him poems
  on the colonists, pilgrims, and love. Sir Walter
  was known for his genuine talent of
  administration. Sir Walter also sometimes took
  what he wrote about in his poems and painted it.
  Sir Walter not only painted and wrote poetry but
  was also a writer.

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Poem/Analysis

• The Silent Lover (i)
• By Sir Walter Raleigh
• Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams
  
• The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb
• So, when affection yields discourse, it seems
• The bottom is but shallow whence they come.
• They that are rich in words, in words discover
• That they are poor in that which makes a lover.

• Analysis
• -I think Sir Walter Raleigh is saying that rich,
  snobby people cant love as good as people the
  are poor.
• Walter discovers things about his lover when they
  are quiet.
• Raleigh doesnt like people who are too deep.

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Annotated Bibliography

• When Sir Walter returned to England he went to
  court and immediately became a favorite of Queen
  Elizabeth.
• When Sir Walter returned to England he went to
  court and immediately became a favorite of Queen
  Elizabeth.
• Sir Walter Raleigh was knighted and given vast
  estates in Ireland.
• Sir Walter had a genuine talent for
  administration.
• When Sir Walter returned to England he went to
  court and immediately became a favorite of Queen
  Elizabeth.
• http//www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/sir-walter-ralei
  gh.htm
• Famous for the discovery of Guiana.
• Sir Walter captained The Falcon
• January 6th, 1585, Queen Elizabeth knights Sir
  Walter Raleigh and names him governor of the new
  territory.
• In 1681 Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for
  attacking the Spanish.

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Raleigh
• Many historians dont know when Sir Walter
  Raleigh was born but they estimate around 1552
  but some historians say it was as late as 1554.
• Sir Walter Raleigh was the youngest of five
  brothers and grew up on a farm in east Budleigh.
• Many of Sir Walter Raleighs poems are about love
  and the pilgrims.
• Sir Walter Raleigh was credited with helping
  defeat the Spanish Armada.
• http//www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0860634.html
  
• Sir Walter Raleigh- Courtier, Poet, Adventurer.
• Sir Walter conceived and originated the lost
  colonys voyage to the new world. (Roanoke Island
  ?)
• Sir Walter Raleigh was knighted and given vast
  estates in Ireland.
• Sir Walter had a genuine talent for
  administration.
• When Sir Walter returned to England he went to
  court and immediately became a favorite of Queen
  Elizabeth.