English 320 Test 1

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"I taste a liquor never brewed..."

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Emily Dickinson

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"Wild Nights"

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Emily Dickinson

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"There's a certain Slant of light..."

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Emily Dickinson

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"I heard a fly buzz"

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Emily Dickinson

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"I dwell in possibility"

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Emily Dickinson

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"Because I could not stop for death"

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Emily Dickinson

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"Tell all the truth but tell it slant"

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Emily Dickinson

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"God's Grandeur"

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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"The Windhover"

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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"Pied Beauty"

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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"Binsey Poplars"

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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"Spring and Fall"

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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"Carrion Comfort"

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

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"Richard Cory"

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

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"How Annandale Went Out"

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

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"Mr. Flood's Party"

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

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"The Road Not Taken"

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Robert Frost

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"The Oven Bird"

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Robert Frost

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"Birches"

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Robert Frost

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"Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"

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Robert Frost

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"Acquainted with the Night"

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Robert Frost

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"The Emperor of Ice Cream"

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Wallace Stevens

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"Poetry"

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Marianne Moore

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"O sweet spontaneous"

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EE Cummings

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"my sweet old et cetera"

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EE Cummings

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"r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r"

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EE Cummings

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"Mowing"

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Robert Frost

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"Some keep the sabbath going to church"

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Emily Dickinson

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"I'm Nobody! Who are you?"

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Emily Dickinson

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"I like a look of agony"

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Emily Dickinson

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Emily Dickinson's 4 major themes:

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1. Joy- "I taste a liquor never brewed," "Wild Nights,"
2. Sorrow- "There's a certain slant of light," "I heard a fly buzz," "Because I could not stop for death"
3. God- "Some keep the sabbath going to church"
4. Love- "How I read a letter"

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"Gull Skeleton"

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Jonathan Revere

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terrible sonnets

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Hopkins' sonnets that he called terrible bc they held a terrible beauty in them

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curtal sonnets

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Hopkins' sonnets whuch were shorten/condensed forms of sonnets
octave=sestet, sestet=quatrain

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EE Cummings 4 major themes:

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1. Affirmation of life and opposed to spirit of negation- "O sweet spontaneous"
2. Effects of technological Revolution - "When serpents.."
3. Freedom v. Rules - "in-Just"
4. Stands against all pretense, social or intellectual snobbery (simplicity in poetry) - "A Spring Prayer"

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Frost's key poetic beliefs:

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1. poet of human nature (nature is always more or less cruel)
2. poetry is an act of clarification (begins in a true concrete setting.. to the boundless"
3. poetry should use the tones and idioms of human speech
4. a poem is not didactic, but provides and experience that "begins in delight and ends in wisdom"
5. Use of metaphor- "one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another" "enthusiasm tamed by metaphor"

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Hopkins and Ignatian Meditation:

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1. reflection should pass from imagination to intellect since the soul draws delight and joy from the sensous ("inscape") and orders it by intellect ("instress")
2. Contemplation of creature and creation leads to contemplation of the Creator. God is transcendent and immanent and meditation moves from the revelation of the immanent God to the transcendent God
3. Ignation meditation begins in a place, seeing the actual, a finite spot, which provides insights into the infinite being ("Pied Beauty")
4. Use of "the three powers"-- the memory to recall, the understanding to study, the will to draw forth meaning
5. the goal of meditation is to discover and conform to the image ot God, allying human creation with the Creator

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inscape / "selve"

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individually distinctive beauty- the essence of a thing- some meaningful essential element

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instress

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incarnation of the essence (inscape) into a form

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sprung rhythm

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livliness- not bound by using regular beat or meter- rhythm goes along with emotion and the subject being written about

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in Just-

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EE Cummings

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my father moved through dooms of love

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EE Cummings

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A Spring Prayer

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EE Cummings

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when serpents bargain for the right to squirm...

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EE Cummings

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objective correlatives

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objects associated with emotion - rain, sad lane, cry, clock (Frost-Acquainted with the Night)

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caesura

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pause in the middle of a line

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engambant

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a line running into another for grammatical purpose and for extension of meaning