English Literature Final

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Matthew Arnold Themes

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- Anti Modernization

- Believe Faith was impt. because it gave human beings something to believe in rather than just working

-saw science as afront to faith

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The Buried Life

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Matthew Arnold

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Wherein he doth for ever chase

That flying and elusive shadow, rest.

An air of coolness plays upon his face,

And an unwonted calm pervades his breast.

And then he thinks he knows

The hills where his life rose,

And the sea where it goes.

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The Buried Life (Matthew Arnold)

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Dover Beach

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Matthew Arnold

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So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night

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Dover Beach ( Matthew Arnold)

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Matthew Arnold 4 Powers

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- Conduct

- Intellect

- Knowledge

- Social Life/ Manners

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Pre Ralphaelites

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- revolted against the over-concern socio-political problems. (Tennyson)

-excapes to a dream­world of his own making

- tired of over moralizing

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Dante Rossetti

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Pre Ralphaelite Founder

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The Walk

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Thomas Hardy

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And still she bow’d herself and stoop’d

Out of the circling charm;

Until her bosom must have made

The bar she lean’d on warm,

And the lilies lay as if asleep

Along her bended arm.

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The Blessed Damozel (Rossetti)

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Wandering between two worlds, one dead,

The other powerless to be born,

With nowhere yet to rest my head,

Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.

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Stanzas from Grand Chartruese (Matthew Arnold)

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Story about sister dying on Christmas night

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My Sisters Sleep (Dante Rossetti)

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He leaned above me, thinking that I slept

And could not hear him; but I heard him say,

‘Poor child, poor child’: and as he turned away

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After Death (Christina Rossetti)

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I found no apples there.
With dangling basket all along the grass
As I had come I went the selfsame track:
My neighbours mocked me while they saw me pass
So empty-handed back.

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An Apple Gathering (Christina Rossetti)

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- in medias res-

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in the middle

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"By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will: what matters it? You know quite well the story of that fray,

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William Morris "The Defence of Guernerve"

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William Morris Style

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Pre Raphaelites

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We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death.

Laurel is green for a season, and love is sweet for a day;

But love grows bitter with treason, and laurel outlives not May.

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Algernon Swinburne "Hymn to Proserpine"

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Alergnon Swinburne Style

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symbol of rebellion

sexual themes

associated with Pre Raphaelites

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Decadent Movement

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*valued actual potrayals of thing rather than banal Romantic descriptions

*Oscar Wilde... Ernest Dowson

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Oscar Wilde*** Themes

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neo romantic

art for art sake

often spoke on social issues

spoke on the outdated nature of marriage

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But one pale woman all alone,
The daylight kissing her wan hair,
Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare,
With lips of flame and heart of stone.

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Impression du Martin (Oscar Wilde)

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But she--she heard the violin,
And left my side, and entered in:
Love passed into the house of lust.

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The Harlot House ( Oscar Wilde)

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The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium

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Preface Dorian Grey (Oscar Wilde)

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Metaphysical

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so the literal translation of 'metaphysical' is 'after the physical.' Basically, metaphysics deals with questions that can't be explained by science.

DOes GOd exist?

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Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine
There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed
Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine;
And I was desolate and sick of an old passion,

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Cynara ( Ernest Dowson)

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Thomas Hardy Themes

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*Longing and Regret

*Estranged Wife Emma

*Opposed to Industrialism

*Love and its Tradegy

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Till the spinner of the years

Said Now! And each one hears

And consummation comes and jars two hemispheres

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The Convergence of the Twain (Thomas Hardy)

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Darkling Thrush

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Thomas Hardy

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Ah Are you Diggin on my Grave

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Thomas Hardy

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Hap

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Thomas Hardy

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Neutral Tones

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Thomas Hardy

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William Yeats Themes

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Mysticism

Art and politics intrinsically linked

Expressed his attitudes toward Irish politics

romantic poet gradually evolved into a modernist poet.

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An aged man is but a paltry thing,

A tattered coat upon a stick, unless

Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing

For every tatter in its mortal dress,

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Sailing to Byzantium (William Yeats)

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I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,

And now my heart is sore.

All's changed since I, hearing at twilight,

The first time on this shore,

The bell-beat of their wings above my head,

Trod with a lighter tread.

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The Wild Swan at Coole (William Yeats)

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How can those terrified vague fingers push

The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?

And how can body, laid in that white rush,

But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

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Leda and Swan (William Yeats)

(commentary Industralism)

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"I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee; And live alone in the bee-loud glade."

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The Lake Isles of Innisfree (Yeats)

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Two Chinamen, behind them a third,
Are carved in lapis lazuli,
Over them flies a long-legged bird,
A symbol of longevity;
The third, doubtless a serving-man,
Carries a musical instmment.

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Lapis Lazuli

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Open Form Poetry

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An open form does not have an established pattern to it, whether it be in line length, meter, rhyme, imagery, syntax, or stanzas

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T. S. Eliot Style

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Open Form Poetry

Social Commentaries

Class Division

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APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

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The Waste Land (T.S Eliot)

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Dramatic Monologue

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A poem in which an imagined speaker addresses a silent listener, usually not the reader.

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Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,

Deferential, glad to be of use,

Politic, cautious, and meticulous;

Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;

At times, indeed, almost ridiculous—

Almost, at times, the Fool.

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Prufrock (TS ELIOT)

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Stream of Consciousness

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inspired by William James principles of psychology

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Harold Pinter

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Modern Dramatist- The Dumb Waiter

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magical realism

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blending of myth and fantasy in a world of realism

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People who weave their lives around money and use religion to tie its on ends will come to a dead end

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The Prophets Hair ( Rushdie)