Keats Poems and Letters Essays
Language is used effectively in both odes to create mood. In the opening stanza of ‘Ode to a Nightingale’, there is a sense of sluggishness, suggested by the heavy alliterative ‘d’, ‘p’ and ‘m’ sounds when Keats describes his heartache at hearing the song of the nightingale, ambivalently experiencing both joy and pain. Compared with…
Love, being one of the most debated topics in literature, often serves as a source of inspirations for many of writers and poets, including John Keats. Throughout his life, he wrote countless love poems and letters, addressing his lover – Fanny Brawne. The star, apart from being the symbol of steadfastness and constancy, it is…
After a brief debut of the period that will contrast the Romantics with the century that preceded them. we shall travel on to analyse the great poetic. theoretical experiment that most see the Ur text of British Romanticism: “Lyrical Ballads” . We shall research both the alone program of “Lyrical Ballads” . and the deductions…
‘O solitude! If I must with thee dwell: key themes Presentation of nature The imagination The individual Solitude ‘O solitude! If I must with thee dwell: key points and analysis Use of address: archaic feature of poetry (particularly Greek and Roman)- personifies solitude; thus solitude is more to Keats (e.g. imagination/state of mind) Juxtaposition of…
Old English Period … What is Old English? name given to the earliest recorded stage of the English language, up to approximately 1150AD (when the Middle English period is generally taken to have begun). More information on Old English It refers to the language as it was used in the long period of time from…
John Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress Robert Browning “My Last Duchess” Charles Dickens (2) Great Expectations, Oliver Twist Geoffrey Chaucer (4) Canterbury Tales, hous of fame, troilus and criseyde, chaucer’s book of the duchesse John Milton Paradise Lost Gerald Manley Hopkins “God’s Grandeur” George Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan Samuel Coleridge (3) Kubla Khan, christabel, the rime…
The questions of Romanticism 1. What can people learn from nature? 2. Is emotion stronger than reason? (Yes) 3. When is the ordinary extraordinary? 4. How does war change our values? Romantics were looking for truth and beauty The time period of the Romantic Era 1798-1832 Romanticism was during the Age of… Revolution Backdrop of…
Break of Day in the Trenches- Isaac Rosenburg Rat is superior to man as they can travel between lines, not loyal to either side. Humanity foisted by rules and fixed ideas. Personifies time “Druid” “Inwardly grin” sardonic humour. “Haughty athletes” “whim” death by chance. “Sprawled in the bowels of the earth” hell, motherland damaged and…
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…
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…
stanza a section of a poem, marked by extra line spacing, that often has a single pattern and/or rhyme Example: Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poem “Richard Coy” has four stanzas. auditor an imaginary listener within a literary work as opposed to the actual reader or audience outside the work Example: The auditor of Lydia Davis’s “Head,…
Allegory Definition: An allegory is a symbolism device where the meaning of a greater, often abstract, concept is conveyed with the aid of a more corporeal object or idea being used as an example. Usually a rhetoric device, an allegory suggests a meaning via metaphoric examples. Example: Faith is like a stony uphill climb: a…
Allegory A narrative or description having a second meaning beneath the surface one. Alliteration The repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words (for example, Map – Moon, Kill – Code, PReach – apPRove). Important words and accented syllables beginning with vowels may also be said to alliterate…
Neoclassical Period (1660-1790) also called the Enlightenment Period; was based on the concept that people could find perfection and happiness through reason and knowledge; essentially humanist vision was characterized by a resistance to religious authority John Dryden (1631-1700) was an English poet and dramatist; some famous poems include “Astrea Redux”, “Absalom and Achitophel”, and “The…
Both the poets appreciated with a sense of wonder every object of nature in minute detail and at the name time saw in them a universal significance. Hopkins was a religious poet and Etageres appreciation, particularly in the west, was as a mystic poet. Both Étagère and Hopkins practiced a theocratic aestheticism. They felt 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…
allegory A symbolic fictional narrative that conveys a meaning not explicitly set forth in the narrative. Allegories typically describe situations and events or express abstract ideas in terms of material objects, persons, and actions. example: George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm (1945), which, under the guise of a fable about domestic animals, expresses the author’s disillusionment…
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…
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…
