Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Essays
Enlightenment (1607-1800) TWO phases: Pilgrims/religion & Patriots/politics The Age of Faith (1607-1750) I. Historical Context A. Puritans and Pilgrims 1. separated from the Anglican church of England 2. religion dominated their lives and writings B. work ethic-belief in hard work and simple, no-frills living II. Genre/Style A. sermons, diaries, personal narratives, slave narratives B. instructive…
Nabokov “good readers and good writers” “We should always remember that the work of art is invariably the creation of a new world, so that the first thing we should do is to study that new world as closely as possible, approaching it as something brand new, having no obvious connection with the worlds we…
Which of the following characterizes a true epic and is seen in The Rape of the Lock?-D The sylphs try to prevent —-A Alexander Pope’s purpose for writing The Rape of the Lock was to-C The word desist means to-B Which of the following best describes the overall feeling that Pope meant to convey in…
where did emily dickinson live and die? amherst what is a fascicle a collection of poems what type of rhyme is today/victory slant rhyme what type of poetry did walt whitman write free verse whos letter did walt whitman publish without consent emerson what was a reoccuring theme in walt whitmans poetry nakedness Smile O…
*Wished to return to more primitive principles, to simplicity, sobriety, religious earnestness, and personal self-control. *Aim was to purify church of England from “Popery” *Persecuted harshly by Charles I and Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud. *Established a Theocracy in the New World. *Believed education was a religious duty and founded schools, colleges and established printing…
The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole, 1765 (Enlightenment) C LIST A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792 (Early Romantic) D LIST The Monk M.G. Lewis, 1796 (Early Romantic) C LIST Gothic Novel. Songs of Innocence William Blake, 1789 (Enlightenment) C LIST Songs of Experience William Blake, 1789 (Enlightenment) C LIST “Marriage of…
1910-1945 The scope of the modernist period. 1945-present The scope of the contemporary period. What is the function of literature? One of the driving questions of the modernist literary period. Modernism A mode of art that does not state directly what it is, but instead remains slightly beyond the grasp of general readers. Robert Frost…
