Ezra Pound Poems Essays
1900s time period in which the imagist movement was established. ezra pound one of imagists founders direct presentation of images using a limited amount of words what imagist poems concentrated on freeze a moment, capture its emotions what imagist poems hoped to do senses what imagist poems appealed to superfluous words, adjectives, abstractions what imagist…
Alliteration the repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants, in a group of words (“whose heart hung humble” -The Open Boat by Stephen Crane) Allusion a reference to a person, a place, an even, or a literary work that a writer expects a reader to recognize (“He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot and Priam’s Neighbors”-Miniver Cheevy…
the colonial era 17th Century in British colonies Primarily metaphysical and devotional Imitative and derivative of British poetry Famous poets: Anne Bradstreet (1st book of American poetry, 1650) Edward Taylor the “Connecticut Wits” Began at Yale in mid-18th century Primarily satirical in nature Patterned after famous British satirists such as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and…
How does the speaker in Chicago demonstrate a realistic view of the city admits that the city has faults which word choices best reflect the overall tone of “chicago” brawling laughter of youth in chicago the speaker says the city of the big shoulders in line 5 to suggest a – city centered on physical…
Accentual Verse Verse whose meter is determined by the number of stressed (accented) syllables—regardless of the total number of syllables—in each line. Many Old English poems, including Beowulf, are accentual; see Ezra Pound’s modern translation of “The Seafarer.” More recently, Richard Wilbur employed this same Anglo-Saxon meter in his poem “Junk.” Traditional nursery rhymes, such…
Paeon A metrical foot (of Greek origin) containing one long syllable and three short syllables. The position of the long syllable can be varied hence the so-called first, second, third or fourth paeon. Palindrome Word, phrase or line of verse which reads the same forwards or backwards e.g. ‘Able was I ere I saw Elba.’…
Which of the following could be a “big question” for a 10- to 12-page multi-source research paper? In what ways has the Internet changed how Americans work and entertain themselves? What is the connection between your “big question” and your thesis statement when you are planning a research paper? Your thesis statement is the answer…
Accentual verse Verse whose meter is determined by the number of stressed (accented) syllables—regardless of the total number of syllables—in each line. Many Old English poems, including Beowulf, are accentual; see Ezra Pound’s modern translation of “The Seafarer.” More recently, Richard Wilbur employed this same Anglo-Saxon meter in his poem “Junk.” Traditional nursery rhymes, such…
artemisia artemisia any of various aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia in the composite family, having green or grayish foliage Chou or Chow or Zhou (jo) a Chinese dynasty (traditionally dated 1122-221 B.C.) characterized by great intellectual achievements, including the rise of Confucianism and Taoism consort wife counterpart (1) duplicate, facsimile (2) complement (3) a…
William Dean Howells foremost proponent of realistic literature William Dean Howells The Rise of Silas Laphalm Samuel Langhorne Clemens Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer Stephen Crane Realist author who portrayed that greusomenses of war in his book the Red Badge of Courage Emily Dickinson realist poet who wrote dark…
Acrostic A poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically. See Lewis Carroll’s “A Boat beneath a Sunny Sky.” Alexandrine In English, a 12-syllable iambic line adapted from French heroic verse. The last line of each stanza in Thomas Hardy’s “The Convergence of the…
True Just like short stories and novels, dramas have a definite plot. climax Once a play reaches its __________, the drama-just like in a story-has falling action that leads to the resolution of the conflicts and resolution of the story. They all have conflict. They all have characters. They all have a setting. They all…
Who founded the Imagist movement? Ezra Pound What are the four principles of Imagism? 1. Direct concentration on the “image”– the thing itself. 2. Use of common speech and language; always the precise word 3. Creation of new rhythms 4. Complete freedom in choice of subjects Who later influenced the movement and caused the founder…
Native American Characteristics: c. 20,000 The literature is as diverse as the cultures that created it, but there are often common elements such as stories explaining creation or natural forces. Oral narratives: Myths; legends; songs; creation stories from groups such as the Zuni, Aztec, Navajo, Lakota, Seneca, Tlingit, Cherokee, Blackfoot, Cree, Inuit, and many more….
Allegory A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. Allegory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities. The most famous example in English is John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress, in which the name of the central character, Pilgrim, epitomizes the book’s allegorical nature. Kay Boyle’s…
Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period Express religious faith and give moral instruction through literature; Early English epic poems such as Beowulf, The Wanderer and The Seafarer Elizabethan Age Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”, “Much Ado about Nothing” and “Richard III” Marlowe’s “Tamburlaine the Great”, “Dr. Faustus”, “The Jew of Malta”, and “edward II” Spencer’s “The Faerie Queene” Jacobean…
Taoism Taoism (or Daoism) is a philosophical, ethical, political and religious tradition of Chinese origin that emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao (also romanized as Dao). The term Tao means “way”, “path” or “principle”, and can also be found in Chinese philosophies and religions other than Taoism. In Taoism, however, Tao denotes something that…
*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…
Kenning Definition: It is a stylistic device and can be defined as a two-word phrase that describes an object through metaphors. A Kenning poem is also called a riddle that consists of a few lines of kennings which describe someone or something in confusing detail. It is also described as a compressed metaphorthat means meanings…
The “modern temper” was uncertain and distrustful of science and religion. True World War I proved that society had succeeded in bringing peace and happiness to everyone. False World War I was a worldwide struggle for political, economic, and military supremacy. True _______ was reluctant to involve itself in European affairs. America The large-scale loss…
Renaissance Europe was in one sense an awakening from the long slumber of the Dark Ages. What had been a stagnant, even backsliding kind of society re-invested in the promise of material and spiritual gain. There was the sincerely held belief that humanity was making progress towards a noble summit of perfect existence. How this…
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…
