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metaphysical poetry

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the works of many 17th century English poets including Donne and Marvel; characteristics include playfulness, argument, paradoxes, irony, elaborate and unusual conceits, incongruity, and the rhythms of ordinary speech; examples are Song by John Donne and To His Coy Mistress by Marvell

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carpe diem

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seize the day

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conceit

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an unusual and suprising comparison between two very different things; Petrarchian conceits make dramatic comparisons about beauty or suffering to things of divine or high nature

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paradox

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seems to be contradictory, but really presents a truth
- epigram – a brief statement in prose or in verse (possibly the concluding couplet in an English sonnet)

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epic

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a long narrative poem about the adventures of gods or of a hero (Beowulf = folk epic b/c it was created orally and then passed down); often include the supernatural and heroes

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Italian sonnet

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a fourteen line poem with a single theme with an eight line ovtave and a six line sestet which rhymes abba abba cde cde

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Tradition

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based on what has been done before; romanticism and enlightenment build on tradition

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reform

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reversion to a pure or original state; try to change tradition; romanticism focus more on nature and not form, structure

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journal

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a daily autobiographical account of events and personal reactions (Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year)

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dialect

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the form of language spoken by people in a specific group or region

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symbol

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a sign, word, phrase, image, or other object that stands for and represents something else; conventional symbolism is often based in nature, politics, and religion (Blake’s Lamb = innocence vs. Tyger = not conventional)

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17th and 18th century literature themes

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1. Donne (father of metaphysical poetry) and Johnson (drew away from Elizabethan eztravagance; looked to classics)
2. men leave, yet are mostly reassuring
3. Purtian writers (Milton and Bunyan) wrote religiously vs. Enlightenment age of reason and chanllenging authority (Defoe, Samuel Johnson)
4. Neoclassicalism - looking back to Greek and Roman classics (Pope - satire on war between sexes)

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Romantic Period literature themes

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1. turned away from reason and focused on nature
2. emotional and nutre (Wordsworth and Coleridge)
3. reject British conservatism (Byron, Shelley, and Keats)
4. essays and novels also written (Jane Austen)

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Victorian Period literature themes

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1. first swayed more towards being inspired by romanticism (Tennyson)
2. then a mixture of both romanticism and realism (Browning)
3. fiction writers use realism (Dickens and Mary Ann Evans writes as George Elliot)
4. writes about women's roles (My Last Duchess and The Lady of Shallot)

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Harry Potter themes

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love, friendship, good vs. evil, loyalty, appearance vs. reality, character connections