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13 Cards in this Set
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Ode
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-Celebratory (Shelley)
-Meditative (Keats) -Not fixed; open-ended -Can either celebrate, commemorate, or meditate on a person or event; tend to be personal |
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Dramatic Monologue
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-Wordsworth
-Browning "My Last Duchess" -Eliot |
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Heroic Couplets
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-Rhymed; perfectly balanced; witty
-Age of Enlightenment -Pope -Browning's "My Last Duchess" -Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" -Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
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Terza Rima
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-galloping verse form; pulls reader along
-Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" -Dante's Divine Comedy in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
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Blank Verse
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-imitates rhythms of English speech; more similar to human speech
-Regular, unrhymed, iambic pentameter (5 beats per line) -Used by Milton in "Paradise Lost"; he used it in the epic voice; haughty -Used by Wordsworth in "Tintern Abbey"; natural voice of the common man |
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Free Verse
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-Irregular; mix of rhymed and unrhymed; mix of line lengths
-Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" -Gives sense of fragmented world in Arnold's "Dover Beach" |
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Sprung Rhythm
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-Coined by Hopkins
-High tension poetic voice holding everything together -self-consciously torqued language |
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The Age of Enlightenment
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18th century
-Pope *Sound & Sense: *Couplets *Highly artificial *Makes fun of poets who just care about rhyme and meter and the people who thought poetry was good based on its rhymes *Doesn't want totally natural flow -Rationality; balance |
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Romantics
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Late 18th, early 19th
-Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats |
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Historical Time Periods
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ARVM
A: 18th century R: late 18th, early 19th V: 19th M: 20th century |
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Poets of Each Time Period
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A: P
R: BWSCK V: BAHH M: YOE |
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Wordsworth: Romantic Revolution
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-Quiet
-Pastoral -Connections of human beings in peaceful times, not violent times -Subjects of common life using common language -In contrast to Pope's enlightenment ideal of rationality and balance, wit and artifice -Transformation of Milton's epic voice; no need for cosmic forces battling in a cosmic paradise -Believed that feeling gave importance to action; the feelings brought to situations made unimportant things important -Saw science as cold and poetry as impassioned -Thought the accumulation of men in cities was degrading -Saw poetry as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, recalled in tranquility |
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Historical Issues of the Time Periods
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-Romantic: cities--> quality of life, population, factories
-Victorian: "the Woman question", faith as withdrawn; progress -Modern: weakening of human relationships; technology/war/ destruction |